>you gotta eat more calories than you burn to gain muscle

Bulking/cutting is a fucking meme. You can lose weight and build muscle. I've done it. Fat gets prioritized over muscle in weight loss, as long as one is eating a relatively high protein diet.

>>42273411
It's not just about protein. The idea of bulking is that you have more reserve energy needed for the build up of muscle. If your body is burning more than it intakes, then it's not going to have enough energy to efficiently dedicate to anabolism.

1000+ calorie bills are a meme, but slow bulks of 3-500+ calories are not.

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>>42273433
>It's not just about protein
Please just start off your post with "I have autism" so I know to ignore you.

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>>42273456
Shut the fuck up

>>42273433
Do you have a source for this? Genuinely curious.

>>42273433
I can see bulking being good for those who literally want to gain weight (obviously they will be gaining weight). But I think most people's problem is that they're already at the weight they should be, they just have fat where muscle should be. At least, that's my situation. I'm a fatass that's trying to cut down to 190 and then eat at maintenance. /fit/ always tries to tell me that I need to cut till im skinny then bulk back up. That's fucking bull

What is eating at maintenance.

>>42273396
building muscle and losing fat are not exclusive to each other

>>42273568
So what do I do?

>>42273482
https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/ask-the-muscle-prof-is-bulking-really-necessary.html

I know it's BB.com, but look at the reference at the bottom in relation to bulking. I'm phoneposting so I can't easily link it, but it does talk about how caloric surplus does aid in anabolism