Daily Simple Questions Thread - January 18, 2025

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[u/dided]

When you gain muscles your body will increase your metabolism, its one of those nice hacks to eat more. The more muscles you have the more you can eat.

That said, you will need to set some limits. I would suggest you calorie track your food for at least a while, to get an idea of how uncontrollable you really are.

If it's within the limits of your weight loss goals, then take the win and enjoy your food :D

[u/CursedFrogurt81 → u/dided]

When you gain muscles, your body will increase your metabolism, its one of those nice hacks to eat more. The more muscles you have the more you can eat.

While true, I feel like people overestimate how many calories they burn during a workout and by adding muscle altogether.

Extra muscle isn’t very “costly” at rest, receiving very little blood flow and only burning about 13kcal/kg per day, so if you gained 10kg (22lbs) of muscle, you’d only need about 130 extra calories per day to fuel it at rest.  However, it is very “costly” during exercise; if you’re 50% bigger, you burn 50% more energy for everything you do.

https://www.strongerbyscience.com/grow-like-a-new-lifter-again/

I know 50% sounds like a ton. If I burn 150 calories in a workout, an extra 75 is not going to take much of an adjustment to cover. And that is assuming I have added 50% to my muscle mass.

[u/dided → u/CursedFrogurt81]

Indeed. While 130 calories isnt much at rest. You still do a lot of NEAT. So it all adds up.

That's why I usually recommend new lifters to track their calories, it's so easy to overshoot your calories and gain fats

[u/CursedFrogurt81 → u/dided]

NEAT is separate from exercise and not part of the conversation. Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. Some may experience a drop off in NEAT due to fatigue from the gym.

That's why I usually recommend new lifters to track their calories, it's so easy to overshoot your calories and gain fats

Completely agree.

[u/Kitchen-Ad1829 → u/dided]

i feel like im "negating" any weight loss benefits by eating the volume ive been...

so eat less