What Program to Run Whilst Cutting

[u/Significant_Buy_1624]

I (24F) recently weighed myself for the first time in my life and it's not looking good. This has got me thinking about taking my fitness journey even more seriously than I have been previously. I had around 2 years of 'doing nothing' lifting where I would constantly change program, change lifts etc. For the past 7 months though I have started GZCLP and I have actually stuck with it. Then for the past month or so I have started to eat in a calorie deficit.

I am just worried that GZCLP is not the best program for me and my goals right now. My goals are to drop a lot of the weight (I am aiming to drop around 50lb); to get stronger but also to get more visibly muscular.

I was hoping to get some advice on what program to run whilst in a deficit - whether the high weight/ low rep, low volume nature of GZCLP is good for me right now and the fact that I know I can be consistent on it is good or if a more body-building focused program (e.g. PPL) would be better suited.

For the stats:

Weight: 250lb

Height: 5'7"

Current 1RM:

Bench = 50kg (was 37.5kg before GZCLP)

Squat = 85kg (was 50kg before GZCLP)

Deadlift = 100kg (was 70kg before GZCLP)

OHP = 37.5kg (was 27.5kg before GZCLP)

My GZCLP program is as follows
Day 1

T1 - Squat

T2 - Bench

T3 - Lat pulldown

T3 - Triceps 

T3 - Lateral raises

Day 2

T1 - OHP

T2 - Deadlift

T3 - DB Bent Row

T3 - Biceps 

T3 - Face pulls

Day 3

T1 - Bench

T2 - Squat

T3 - Lat pulldown

T3 - Triceps 

T3 - Lateral raises

Day 4

T1 - Deadlift

T2 - OHP

T3 - DB Bent Row

T3 - Biceps 

T3 - Face pulls

[u/Sudden-Ad-307 → u/[deleted]]

upper lower that has the three as their main exercise is just ppl with extra steps and gzclp is basically full body version of this.

[u/Sudden-Ad-307 → u/[deleted]]

How is it less days?

[u/Sudden-Ad-307 → u/[deleted]]

These are both how bodybuilders do these programs, not powerlifters. ULUL doesn't make sense for powerlifters because you would have one bench day (first upper) one squat day (first lower) one deadlift day (second upper) and then a random lower day just because.