2 important things:

You need a cheat day every week to regulate the body so it doesn't adjust to a calorie deficit. I eat myself sick some cheat days but I'm still losing weight.

Not all calories are the same. I don't remember the exact numbers off hand but you lose more weight getting your calories from protein, then by fat, then carbs last. You basically want to cut carbs as much as possible on your restricted days. Specifically things white. Things like white bread, white rice, white pasta, White people. Being around White people relaxes your body because you feel safe. Being around groups of blacks will keep your body in that "fight or flight" high adrenaline mode and burn more calories.

Hope that helps you on your journey.

Eat a good amount of fat. When you are not eating carbs and sugar, and are eating fat, after a few days, the body will stop looking for energy from carbs and sugar and start burning fat for energy. When thay happens, weight falls off very quickly. Be warned, going back to sugar and carbs after this happens will result in quickly putting on weight.

The body does eat itself but running a caloric deficit without exercise, it's eating both fat and muscle. At least do some bodyweight exercise on the major muscle groups. Squats, at the very least. More muscle = more energy burned at rest so muscle mass is really one of your best friends when cutting weight. Really, it's cutting fat you're trying to accomplish; weight really has nothing to do with it.

I'd go with a few sets to good-form failure if you're looking to save time.

Eat protein. Your body will consume less muscle that way. You also should do anaerobic exercise unless you want to become skinny fat.

3500 calories seems like a lot what are you a samsquach?

Outstanding! Cut your calories, keep your protein up and continue to lift. Get yer summer bod on, EP.

Pang was nervous.

He has never thought he was a great poet, just a middling one.

But to be summoned before the Emperor's Grand Imperial Eunuch for a poetry review, that was an honor few received.

"Pang, Welcome! You are well regarded as the most promising poet of your province! We have heard you have been writing poems about the Emperor, is this true?"

The Grand Eunuch was disgustingly fat. His smile seemed unclean, and his lips seemed to drip with the grease of duck-fat from meal happened recently.

"Yes, Grand Eunuch, I write many poems, all of which are to honor the great Emperor, and I write them on all on auspicious occasions! I find the Emperor to be the inspiration behind all of my writing!"

The Grand Eunuch sneered at him, as if he was a simpleton who knew nothing.

"Did you write poems to honor his last two marriages?"

The poet began to shake. He had. Everyone had been ordered to honor the marriages. The Emperor had been married 10 times. His poems had been well regarded, and repeated often by the commoners who lived in his prefecture.

"Yes, Grand Eunuch. Why do you ask?"

Again, the Grand Eunuch gave him the stare that one would give a dog who didn't know he was in trouble for shitting on a bed.

"You mentioned that his most recent wife would be his true love for 'all of eternity'. You are aware of the assassination attempt, aren't you?"

Pang, the poet, started to shake in his robes.

"But I did not know!"

The Eunuch spat.

"Did you also not 'know' about the fertility of his previous wife? When your poem honoring their union said they may bear a thousand sons?"

"How could I have known?"

The Eunuch looked bored, as he proceeded to dole out the Emperor's justice. His sentence would be lenient, because the Poet was an imbecile, who seemed to not know the political implications of what he wrote.

"You are lucky the Emperor enjoyed your poems about his first eight wives. Writing two bad poems out of ten, not a terrible ratio?"

The Imperial Eunuch thought for a moment. Not about the punishment, that had been decided long before the hearing. But this was justice, so he had to appear to be thinking during the trial. He thought about roast pork over long noodles. That would be a good lunch.

"Ten poems, eight enjoyable, two wicked. If you wrote 20% less, you would be the greatest Poet in the Empire. And you wrote these poems with your fingers... This is simple math. Guards, remove his thumbs, so he might choose he words more carefully"

Caloric content can only be determined by burning something with a flame. Bodies cannot burn calories. Bodies cannot burn anything. What methods exist that are able to determine how many calories a body has burned? CICO is retarded and there is no legitimate science to back it. A sardine has never been burned with a flame to determine caloric content.

A calorie is a unit of measure of energy. Very specifically, it is the amount of energy that is required to raise the temperature of one mL of water by one degree Celsius.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/nutrition/how-caloric-value-food-determined

It's all guesses and averages. And the method of determining how many calories you "burn" is more fake and gay than that. "calorimeter" lol. Fake and Gay!

Bravo on the weight loss even though it has nothing to do with calories.