Originally Posted by tonight
Curiosity: why are you eliminating the cardio? Are you trying to bulk up?
How many calories you need depends what you're trying to do (i.e. bulk or cut or maintain?). If you're dropping the cardio and maintaining the same caloric intake you will gain because there is no longer that caloric deficit created by the cardio. E.g. Say you burned 400 calories doing your daily cardio. Now you stop. If you were to now reduce your caloric intake by 400 calories, which is nearly a 15% decrease in calories, it would seem to me that you would maintain your weight since you'll be less active, ALTHOUGH this may come at a cost of slower metabolism and, additionally, less calories available to get your macronutrients.
And on the macros - I'd like to see some more carbs, I mean you can't go on zero carbs for too long (sorry, don't advocate keto diets), plus you need carbs pwo. Just don't eat them at the wrong times and with the wrong food combinations.