How tall are you?  I'm not sure I'd believe that bodyfat number -- it could
be low or high.  If I were you, I'd pick my target weight based on what I
see in the mirror when naked.  Sure, you can use 185 for now, but once you
get close to that number, just look in the mirror and be honest with
yourself.  if you can see what you think is unslightly fat, then keep going.
If you think you look fine, then you've reached your goal.  Either way,
you'll likely be better off for the long term.

0% bodyfat?

what are you smoking?  no one, but no one, has 0% bodyfat.

Warning, that's a muscle building diet.  If you're training to limit
losses during dieting, you'll need something different.  Oh wait - you
alread have something different ;-)

That was probably worth the aggravation.

If your body obeyed the simplistic mathematical models we use, it's
like this: 25% of the weight you lose is LBM (LBM is not all muscle;
expect to lose some).  So, for 73lbs fat there's 24lbs LBM that goes
with it, leaving you with 140 lbs LBM if you diet down to zero fat
(yeah, right).  Working up to 15%bf (ideal for men) from that gives
you 175lbs (149 lbm, 26 fat).

I don't know if that's realistic or not, but that's what you get for
using mathematical models.

I read somewhere yesterday that 1.20 - 1.25% of the no fat weight is
ideal. I can't tell you how this was decided or how near to being good
it is.

--  
Jean M.
New food of the week: water chestnuts

Do away with flipfloping to e-mail.

Mike:
this is a good place to start
http://www.bodyforlife.com/bfcalc.shtml
This guy really knows his stuff.

I hope that he didn't do a caliper BF% test on you after you had been
exercising for 20 minutes, it could effect your skins thickness and
therefore give a higher BF% result.

Something to help you consider where you want end up as a BF% goal:
for men 26%+ is considered obese, acceptable is between 18-25%, fit
between 14-17%, athletic between 6-13%, and essential between 2-4%.  I
go by the American Council on Exercise, other sources use just
slightly different numbers.

At 185 its hard to say what you're BF% might be.  Its dependent upon
how you train and eat.  You could be anywhere from 20% to 10% BF at 185.

I think that you're going to be losing a small amount of muscle with
your fat loss since you're not new to WT.  I would suggest that you
might want to set two goals. The first would be to see were you're BF%
is at when you hit 200lbs.  I would hope that you wouldn't be any
higher than 23% (that would be were your LBM loss to total loss would
be under a 25%).  If you're % is higher then you might want to rethink
diet and exercise plan to keep as much LBM as possible.  At 23% you'll
also get you into an acceptable range and that will let you decide
just how aggressive you want to work toward a lower BF%.  Setting
number goals aren't realistic at the start if you don't know how much
you're willing to work toward them.

Than I would suggest that you consider test your BF% every 10lbs to
see where you're going and if you're losing too much LBM then to do
what you can to build it back up again without adding too much fat.
From my point of view its better to have more muscle mass than to see
a scale number go down because in the end if you're at a low scale
number but are unable to maintain that eating level because you've
lost so much muscle mass your in worse shape than when you started.

And who knows, maybe you're lucky and blessed and you might be able to
add some LBM, which will make the whole process easier.

Good luck.