Calorie Deficit and intermittent fasting

rickyshar
rickyshar Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello folks I am on caloric deficit and doing intermittent fasting. I want to loose body fat and same time want to build muscle. Anyone else going or doing same ?
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  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,248 Member
    There is no magic to IF regarding fatloss and is not a good approach when attempting to build muscle.

    A calorie deficit and attempting to simultaneously trying to build muscle is an exercise in futility most of the time so better to define a goal of either fatloss and muscle retention or concentrating on adding muscle.
  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,244 Member
    You can't build muscle on a deficit.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,264 Member
    edited September 3
    Yeah, Tom is right. Building muscle is about providing the material for that to happen which won't happen in a calorie deficit. Can it happen in certain circumstances, sure, muscle memory, new to weight training but for all intense and long term purposes, it's futile. The IF aspect can effect our satiety hormones and some people can lose extra weight by not eating as much food which is also subject to, under ideal conditions, but that has nothing to do with adding muscle mass. imo
  • Retroguy2000
    Retroguy2000 Posts: 1,869 Member
    Seffell wrote: »
    You can't build muscle on a deficit.
    Yes, you can.

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