You need to feed to succeed! repost from my blog

Newfiedan

My workouts have evolved, I had started out just with running 2 times a week thinking that would be the fastest ticket to fat loss, however I then moved onto high intensity interval training which aided me in fat loss. After a few weeks of that I got back into resistance training which I am quite familiar with from my youth. I rekindled my love of weight training and then mixed the hiit in it. After some time doing this I then switched my workout to a metabolic resistance training method and resistance training, using that method I had combined my weights and cardio to make a very time effective workout 3 times/week. Once I switched jobs I took on a much more active and physically demanding job so I then changed my workouts to 2 times a week doing just resistance training with some cardio mixed in if I felt more energetic. Up to the point of me switching jobs I had dropped 40 lbs of fat, I had then did a 4 week muscle rebuilding routine and added back 14 lbs, I am not back to cutting and am still on my journey towards a 6 pack. I am using the metabolic resistance training and resistance training to get there just depends on the day and how energetic I am as I not work 10+ hrs a day 5 days a week and half day saturdays.

Newfiedan

To address fitmel08's comment I have to reply with this:
To decide whether or not you believe in starvation mode depends on the person. I do not view it as "starving" yourself and I believe it to be a misnomer.
How I look at that is that we are starving the body of what it needs to promote healthy fat loss and retain muscle so it actually has nothing to do with starving per say. There is much more to fat loss than simply cals in vs cals out but as a general rule yes it does apply, and for most it does work like that. I have also gotten the scale moving for many women and men on here by making simple suggestion and upping caloric intake.
My focus is on body composition and not the scale though, you can be dead on for scale weight but have piss poor body comp and a higher bodyfat % than when you started your fat loss journey if you do not feed the body what it needs to build muscle and shed fat. Although we do not do both at the same time it does require proper nutrition, smart application of exercise and proper use of rest to achieve maximum results. At the core of any program is nutrition, results are highly dependent on diet. I call it the triangle for results with nutrition at the base 1 side being workouts and 1 side rest. Only when you combine all 3 do you get real results. If you take away any of the 3 sides you will hinder or not see any results.
So as you can see from my point of view starvation mode as it is called does exist but not in the context that many think it does. In my humble opinion the biggest problem with society as a whole today is that they focus on numbers that mean little to nothing unless you take the bigger picture into account. Scale weight means absolutely zip unless you look at bodyfat % and lean mass. A bodybuilder according to his bmi is obese so it means squat really. BMI is as useless as the paper is it written on as it takes nothing into account for body comp. Unless we get off the media hamster wheel about what is promoted as ideal we will not achieve a real healthy weight. I do not follow my quest for a 6 pack as vanity, I go after it because it is a goal that I have set for myself. It is not for everyone and I do not follow the masses, I experiment with different perspectives and find what works for me. I am driven, ambitious and competitive by nature and my greatest competition is myself. I measure my success and failures from my own point of view not from what I am told is a success or a failure by others. It is a shame that more people do not do the same.