Why 2 pounds/week max of weight loss?
It doesn't really make sense to me. You can lose a lot more if you incorporate cardio. Like, suppose you do a 500 calorie deficit each day from eating 500 less calories than your base metabolic rate. Then you do 1000 calories of cardio a day (roughly 1 hour say on an elliptical machine). That is 1500 calories lost per…