My Summer of Fat Shredding Log!

Hello everyone! My name's Frans and I am 21 years old. I am going into my final year of college in September. For most of my life I was fairly overweight, peaking at around 200 pounds in high school (around 5'4" at the time). When I started working at I was around 190ish and lost a little over 40 pounds over the course of 4 months (a little faster than I would have preferred but still stoked nonetheless). However, over the last three years of college, my weight has fluctuated around 20-25 pounds (I worked out during the summer but lost it during the school year).

This year I decided enough was enough. I had slimmed down during my first semester to my lowest weight ever, 137 pounds but now that I am around 5'7" I knew that was too low for sure! Let myself go a little for a few months but started again in February (I'd gained about 6 pounds and a little stomach fat but still lean enough that I decided to attempt a bulk). First few months started out okay but by the third month, some personal issues with family got in the way and I sort of lost focus. my eating was not as great and I had to end my bulk at around 4.5 months having gained 18.5 pounds and much more fat than I would have liked (had been shooting for around maybe 15-17 pounds in 6 months).

Now here we are, and I have decided I want to cut but the right way this time, more slowly (0.5-1 pounds a week) so I can preserve whatever (small amount) of muscle I gained from the bulk and hopefully be more shredded this time. I started my cut last Monday so today would technically be Day 10 for me. I know I have a few cycles of cutting and bulking to do before I am at a place where I am really happy but this could be a good start for me and maybe get some definition which has always eluded me haha! Here are my starting stats and workout plan as well as what I am currently eating (these are from last week since I started last Monday):

Starting stats (as of June 22, 2015)"

Weight: 159-161.5 pounds? (my old scale I have here at home has never really worked properly and it fluctuated between these two numbers over a span of like 10 seconds and would even change while I stood on it so I bought a new scale so the weight should be more accurate in the future)
Body fat: 16.1-16.2% (based off of Omron handheld device, I know it is low/inaccurate and I am probably closer to around 18% but I still want to consistently use it to see my trend of fat loss)
Chest: 39.25"
Waist: 34.875"
Biceps (flexed): 13.75"
Hips: 38.375"
Thighs: 23.125"
Calves: 13.5"
Neck: 15.375"

I used to eat around 3000-3050 on my bulk but dropped it to 2700 this first week to see how my body reacts (based on TDEE calculators this is close to maintenance for me) and slowly lower it when needed. Currently my macro breakdown is around 45/30/25 (actually calculated each number of grams for each macro and ended up very close to this split so just inputted these percentages into MyFitnessPal).

The current program I started on Monday is StrongLifts 5x5 which is as follows:

Monday: Workout A --> squats 5x5, bench press 5x5, barbell rows 5x5
Wed.: Workout B --> squats 5x5, overhead press 5x5, deadlifts 1x5
Friday: Workout A --> squats 5x5, bench press 5x5, barbell rows 5x5

This is how week 1 looks like. Next week it will be a BAB workout scheme for Monday, Wed., and Friday and then the third week will be ABA again and so on!

I also plan to incorporate some light cardio and ab work on Tuesdays and Thursdays (my off days). Not sure what I will do for cardio but most likely it will be about 20-30 minutes on the treadmill.

I will update this log as much as I can, starting today! Wish me luck everyone and feel free to comment whenever and I will get back to everyone as soon as I can (I am on this site pretty frequently so I probably will not take long to respond haha)! I also included some starting pictures below!