Good luck to you. It's difficult, especially at your age. Once you get down to about 15%, each percent after becomes increasingly very difficult. Especially if your aren't using any chemical "helpers". At 15% your abs will start showing - at 10% they look like speed bumps. Your energy will go down too as well as your strength. I like to do my cutting in the spring so I'll look good at the pool by the end of May. Yeah, I know, purely ego driven.
I’ve been mentally preparing for the cut because I know what it’s going to take!
Among the reasons I decided to get back in shape, in no particular order:
-I knew I was getting close to the age where it becomes extremely difficult for men to get back in shape.
-I wasted the best physical years of my life being overweight (ages 26-38) and I wasn’t happy with that.
-I looked at my peers and said middle age doesn’t have to be like the people in the animated movie Wall-e.