Weight Loss Plus

[Corbab]

I never thought I'd be saying this, but I need to lose weight. I'm 6'2", 200lb, 10-15%bf (tape-measured), so I'm not exactly overweight, but in order to be competitive as a rower, I need to be around 185. For the mathematically lazy, I need to lose 20 pounds. I'm eating paleo, lifting heavy 2x weekly, sprinting 2-3x weekly, and doing ~1hr steady state cardio 5x weekly, which I plan on increasing. My estimated calorie expenditure is 4,000kcal/day, and I'm aiming for 3,500 to start. I read Lyle McDonald's series on cutting while training, and used eatthismuch.com to rough in my meals.

Am I missing anything? Does anyone have experience with anything like this? Any tips?

TL,DR: I need to lose 20lb. What do?

[Ghost]

Intermittent Fasting could help with the final push.

[Lachy]

If you're at 15% BF, and you lost 5%, you'd only loose 10lbs. And I don't think you want to get lower BF than that for rowing. So you're gonna have to shed some muscle weight, I think.

[Corbab]

If you're at 15% BF, and you lost 5%, you'd only loose 10lbs. And I don't think you want to get lower BF than that for rowing. So you're gonna have to shed some muscle weight, I think.

I figured on that much. Should I change my training (cut out Starting Strength?) with this in mind? I don't want to lose a ton of strength, and I know I can gain it back at a lower weight.

[TheSavageBean]

You would only be 5lbs overweight if you lost 10lbs. You might want to consider losing your water through sweat training if there's a weigh in you have to pass.