Started #174 on June 25th so it's been about 2.5 weeks now. I vigorously count calories and per day am consuming about 3,000 calories, 215 grams of protein, and 70 grams of fat. I've also been waking up at about 4:30 each weekday (and 6:30 on weekends) and have been doing an hour of core at the gym, coming home and running (starting at only about 1.5 miles now) and every other day, have been lifting upper body later in the day. I see really solid results so far. I've never had a six pack. Even when I was in XC/Track shape, I was lean but never had any core muscles showing per se. When I started this, I weighed about 210. I still weigh about 208.5 but the difference in my mid-section in such a short time has me really pumped. Extremely noticeable.