u/Azshtboxtech

Seen a lot of issues with people running Duality FRTs in their vector. I decided to bite the bullet and try it out anyways, but went for the Mamba instead of the raptor, because most things in life are simpler the closer to factory you leave them (cars, bikes, guns, etc). So this retains the factory selector, springs, no shims needed, no polishing or clearancing. Installed in about 30 minutes, and successfully ran 500 rounds through it today with no failures. Trigger control still easily allows for single shot, burst fire, and full frt goodness. I understand the desire for a reliable 3 position trigger, but I will gladly take a reliable 2 position over a 3 position that no one seems to get working reliably. So, anyone considering putting an FRT in their vector, the mamba seems to be the easier solution at this time, unless not have a dedicated semi auto (which apparently still burst fires according to some) is a deal breaker.

I am ~40 days into diet and lifting again after 4-5 years of…not. Prior to the last 4-5 years, I was a 5 day a week lifter, always eating to gain size, 3500-4000 calories, 350g+ protein. Hurt my lower back and SI joint deadlifting, and fell out of habits and therefore out of shape. Prior to this new diet and routine, I weighed 233lbs at 5’09, 29 years old. Wasn’t particularly fat, but definitely not in good shape. I set an arbitrary caloric target daily of 1800 calories, figuring that had to be at least a 500 calorie deficit. Fast forward to today, and I’m 205lbs, with noticeably more muscle. Shoulders, lats, and pecs all growing quickly. This is all good, honestly great progress and it has me seriously questioning my caloric intake. I religiously track everything. Every sauce, bite, tbsp of butter, etc. and my average caloric intake this previous month was 1505 calories/day, and averaging 130g protein daily. But I started working the math backwards, and this is averaging out at 4.9lb/wk of weight loss. Throwing out the first week of data where I lost a ton of weight almost immediately, I’m working out to a number right around 3.3lbs/wk. That would indicate a deficit of roughly 1650 calories a day, on average, using the 3500 calorie number per lb lost. That then tells me my TDEE is…3200 calories? That seems absurdly high. And a deficit of 1650 calories a day seems absurdly high as well.

I am lifting 4x a week, usually 1 day of cardio (1hr max incline walking at 3.5mph), and then a basic PPL split with rest between. Does this math track with anyone else willing to do the math? The reason being, is now that I have dropped a good chunk of weight, and have over a month of moderate lifting back under my belt after being out of the game for so long, I would definitely enjoy putting on some more muscle mass to try and get back to where I was at 21-22 years old. That feels like it would be significantly easier upping the protein back to 220g/day or so, however calories would begin to be an issue with that much protein. Trying to see where I can bump my caloric target to, to continue staying in a healthy deficit but having a much bigger protein target. Looking for someone to chime in telling me my numbers do or don’t make sense, and opinions on where to go from here? And following that, if the numbers to make sense, how long should I be able to sustain a deficit this high safely

FRT experience

Yet another TDEE/deficit conversation