this is all fine and dandy,
but you guys need to realize something.
First off, if you want to lean up, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and this is the hardest. I would try something else first, and when u are sure that u are stuck then I would switch over to this idea.
as for me, I'm not fat, no gut, no love handles, I already don't look that bad, I'd look fine on the beach, sure I want to look a little better, as everybody does, more striations, more sharp abs, etc, but thats realistically not that far away from my grasp, so I'd rather just do a zone diet, which I'm sure might take a bit longer and perhaps it is more catabolic, but not that much longer, and it will allow me to have fun while I'm dieting as well.
So when summer pulls around, I'll be the one to have the last laugh. Why? Because I'll look good, and I'll have known that I enjoyed my time up to the summer and didn't throw away 2 months of my life by making them miserable.