Weight loss is not a function of the lifting routine or even the conditioning shit. It's the diet, which I'm not really recording here. The lifting is mainly to keep strength from dropping off, and conditioning I'm trying a bit of because I don't need a caloric surplus to improve that aspect of performance. That said, I've been trying to avoid the "big drop" I got from previous cutting endeavors when I just went with an immediate switch to a deep deficit. I found that big drop in weight also came with a big drop in strength. In fact, it was during that drop where most of the strength loss of the cut seemed to happen. My assumption is this is because when your deficit is too big, you exceed your body's ability to call up energy from fat stores and it needs to start catabolizing lean tissue to make up for it. So this time I'm pulling bits and pieces of the diet and making changes based on the weekly weigh ins. Goal is to maintain 2 pounds or so per week weight loss, if it falls below that too soon that's when I decrease the calories a little more.