We are almost 6 Weeks Out now to the Vancouver Fall Classic and it's time for another update video. This video will not have any posing in it, that video will follow in a couple of days when I am within a day or two of being 6 weeks out.

I kind of missed my 8 Week Out Video but it was intentional, I just didn't feel like there was anything to really show everyone, I have been on track for the most part with my training, activity and eating, but at least visually not much had really changed. I am hoping this 6 Week Out Posing Update video will show some significant improvements over the 10 Weeks Out Video.

I have been working very hard and even dropped my calories a bit more down to 2000 per day for the last 4 weeks to make sure I stay on track and don't have too much work to do all at the end, that can really such!

In terms of my daily calorie deficit I should be close to 1500 most days with maybe a closer to 1000 on the weekends. I am achieving this by walking 5 to 6 miles per day which burns around 700-800 calories at my body weight of just over 200 pounds and I also weight train for at least an hour per day generally burning about 500 calories. I also burn an additional 200-300 calorie  from NEAT activity through the day for a total of around 1500 calories burned via activity. When you add in my BMR of around 2000 calories this gives me a total calorie burn of right around 3500 calories each day.

With 2000 calories eaten and 3500 burned this puts me in a 1500 calorie defect and should allow me to lose around 2-3 pounds per week but it is not always as simple as that... As I get older my body does not respond as quickly for sure and I do have to work harder than before but I am up for it!

Generally I am feeling pretty good, my energy is good most of the time and I am not overly hungry because I have made my body use to not eating much the early part of the day and expecting more food in the evening so I don't go to bed feeling hungry. I also eat a bit more fat than most people in a contest prep and this helps me feel less hungry, this does come at a light cost to protein intake which I have to be careful to get enough of each day when only eating 2000 calories of total food.

Well stay posted for my 6 Weeks Out Posing Video where I hope to show everyone what 4 weeks of pushing hard can achieve.