Huge Calorie Cut....

I started cutting 5 weeks ago. Then I weighed 190 lbs, I'm 72inches tall(6 foot), and I was 13% BF.
I train semi-hard, 6 to 7 days a week, 30-40 min weights and 20-30 min cardio. I'm not over exerting myself.

I used the MS Excel spreadsheet in the sticky post of Nutrition forum to calculate my daily calorie need.
And at Moderately Active I should consume 2483-2638 calories a day, so it says.

So I did that for 2 weeks and dropped about 8 lbs very fast. And my BF % went down to 10.8%.

I hit a plateau, and decided to cut down to 2100-2400 calories since I lost almost 10lbs....still nothing.
So I cut down to 1750 to 1800 calories a day and bam! I'm steadly losing a pound a week. My BF is decreasing, the amount I lift is the same.

I eat about 7-9 times a day.

To me this sounds like too much of a calorie cut, I work out a lot buring about 700 calories a day in exercise. This doesn't make sense to me, but it's working.

Anyone have any suggestions? Should I continue this way or increase calories?

If you re-do the excel sheet based on your current numbers is 1750 to 1800 recommended?

I also watch what I lift as well.  Noticible loss of strength is a clear sign that you don't have the muscle you used to.

How do you look in the mirror?  More ripped but the same overall muscle mass?

Marc C. David - NGA CPT
Author of NoBull Bodybuilding
www.nobullbodybuilding.com

Yeah just re-did the sheet. I now weigh 179. I'll have to wait till later to get BF% when I can get some one to do my back and tricep. But the areas I can do myself have gone down a little since last week.

For Sedentary is says 1865-1982.
But I work out quit a bit, so I was looking at Moderately Active which is 2409 - 2560.
Since I work out 5 - 6 days a week I was even thinking I should be in the Very Active slot.

In the first 2 weeks me strenght did go down, I dropped about 5-10 lbs of weights in some of me exercises.
But the past 3 weeks, strenght stayed the same.

Yeah, the in the mirror I look better than I did 5 weeks ago. Same muscle, just more ripped. Abs are comming in great!

Weird, this works for me, but the calculators don't seem to mean anything for me.

About a year ago I tried bulking and used the calculators and it said I should eat 3463-3614 calories. I did, and in one month I started looking so fat that I got scared and gave up. I then just started eating with out tracking anything and with out forcing myself to hit the 3464+ cals.