Question...obviously you need to eat a surplus in calories to

>>40505182
Idiot, muscles don't care about 1 day, It only matter what you eat over time, so like in a month.

If you went surplus calories in the course of a month you will gain weight, it doesn't matter if you had 1500 cals or 5000 on an individual day, over time it's still more than you burn.

So just make sure you get enough per week/month.

>>40505246
this doesn't make sense to me

wouldn't you lose a half pound of fat if you didn't eat for a day technically?

>>40505514
the human body is designed to be smarter than that. given that humans didn't have the luxury of 3 regular meals a day in stone age whatever times, the body learned to distribute the nutrients and calories in complex ways to optimize all that could be taken from food.

long story short, you won't see any difference whatsoever unless you are trying to hit like 5% body fat or something.

>>40505182
you can only grow around 0.03 kg of muscle per day so you should view it as a weekly or even monthly thing not daily

>>40505671
I guess I was just curious about on the days I do work out that I should be extra careful of getting enough calories in...not really looking at it as a daily thing I just want to make sure I'm not wasting work out days

>>40505647
Makes sense, thank you. I'm very good with counting calories and I think being so new to this (3 months) that I'm getting almost too crucial with it which is probably a common mistake