I've been trying to eat at maintenance with lifting two times a week, lap swimming two times a week and the occasional crossfit or hiit once a week. What I'm wondering is, how do you transition to rest weeks without your body thinking you're cutting? I wanted to do two weeks maintenance before a 4 weeks cut but one of those weeks had 5 workouts and this next week will be by a pool in Vegas eating dirty and drinking mojitos. So, my rest maintenance calories will be lower on my rest week than they will be while cutting and working out. Do you recalculate calories depending on activity level?How do I prevent my body thinking I'm cutting already?
TIA