Oh yeah, once I resume
eating at maintenance level, I expect protein to be up near 75 grams.
Because you're
eating at your maintenance level, you're not going to gain body fat during this time.
At that point, just maintain your lifts in the gym, and
eat at maintenance level.
After you have lost the desired amount of muscle, I would just
eat at maintenance level.
If they are not trying to lose any weight, then they should
eat at maintenance level.
Not exact matches
If you ARE new to weight training you should
eat at about
maintenance level or a small deficit (rather than a surplus) and train like you are trying to build muscle.
It all comes down to body composition changes, which requires
eating at or near
maintenance levels and focusing on strength training.
Sure you could subtract about 1800 or so cals if you didn't aim to
eat 100 over
maintenance on rest days then you risk potentially not hitting
at least
maintenance level and that's simply not worth it.
If you simply
eat «on the fly» out of instinct, you'll almost always revert back to
eating at your calorie
maintenance level (or in a surplus), since that is what your body is naturally programmed to do when food is constantly available.
At a
maintenance level of 1850 calories a day, I cant get it below 15 % fat even if I
eat only fruit and veg for the trst of the day.