Hey, this may be a stupid question, but I'm having a hard time figuring this out.
What goes on in your body when you switch from a calorie deficit to a calorie surplus, and vice versa? How fast can you switch back and forth?
Well it makes sense that you cannot gain muscle and lose fat at the same exact time, how long do you really need to switch from being in a calorie deficit to being in an anabolic state? I mean can your body really know how much you will be eating at your next meal, or the next day, next week?
I may be way off on this, but I would think that your body just uses what it has at the moment. So if you say, workout, then have a calorie surplus for the next 24 hours after, you'd be in an anabolic state and building muscle, correct? then the next 24 hours, you put yourself in a calorie deficit, and lose some fat, then repeat. So you’d be building muscle one day, and losing fat the next, then repeat this process. Or is it more complex then this? Am I missing something here? Does the body need to be in a calorie surplus for X amount of time before it says, hey, I have the extra resources available to build some extra muscle mass?
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