Been doing it on a natural recomp regimen. Start around 4am with a whey and water shake, then fasted until about 330- 4 pm. Generally eat a pre workout meal, then lift 45m later. And start smashing food after that up to about 2k plus calories. Honestly, you don't have to count calories, but to make sure you pull enough macros for the day. The shortened feed duration, plus the stomach shrinkage makes it damn near impossible not to cut.
Depending on how hard I run the deficit, I'll either hold scale weight while my clothes get bigger, or cut very rapidly. EC stack runs very well with this, especially cycled on and off two weeks at a time for major appetite suppression. I found I could run a crash diet for two weeks on EC, dropping about 5lbs a week, then come off the ec, go on a two day refeed, and eat at a moderate recomp deficit. You'll look a little flat at the end of the crash, but you blow right back up as soon as you refeed, and the fat stays off. However, this was for recomp. You're already looking pretty good there Chuck, so I don't know if you would want to go crash dieting too hard. . .
The best part is it's bearable. Once you get your body accustomed to it, it does not care about being in deficit. It's like your body knows it's going to pig out and feel good later, so it doesn't bitch at you when you're fasting it.
I like it. I will be experimenting with it when I swing the second half of this cycle back into cut/recomp, possibly with lots of chemical extras. I seem to be building a stash of cutting drugs that I never had an interest in, due to people throwing in extras or botching orders, lol. I'll definitely let you all know how it goes.
