Sounds good. Don't go right to 500 below maintenance if you are just beginnning. Remember maintenance is for lean body mass not fat too. Start at maintenance and see where that gets you and then drop it from there. Since you are at 18% you're not in a bad place and it's better for long terms results if you let it drop slowly. And it's even possible you may gain some muscle even though you should focus on maintenance if you are truly wanting to cut. My opinion only.

Also another though if you've been eating a lot more than that don't cut your calories down to maintenance or below all of a sudden. Do it slowly. But for me I don't think I would come off a couple year hiatus and go right to cutting. Some more lean mass makes cutting all the easier.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.