Does your maintenance and surplus calorie levels change with your bodyfat?

[Akos89]

Maybe it's a stupid one, but if you are after a calorie deficit period, and you get to for example 10%bf,
you can maintaine that level if you eat under your calorie surplus?

Or your body "feels" that you don't have much fat and starts to store it on a lower calorie level?

I'm just curious, because I hardly gain any fat, and I started my first cut from 15 to 10%bf, and it would be cool if a can eat after that like a pig and maintaine my abs XD

[here4me]

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[Akos89]

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[Grelko]

Maybe it's a stupid one, but if you are after a calorie deficit period, and you get to for example 10%bf,
you can maintaine that level if you eat under your calorie surplus?

Or your body "feels" that you don't have much fat and starts to store it on a lower calorie level?

I'm just curious, because I hardly gain any fat, and I started my first cut from 15 to 10%bf, and it would be cool if a can eat after that like a pig and maintaine my abs XD

I'm sure many people on here can add tons of information to this.

To a point you can "eat like a pig".

Muscle burns more calories than fat, so the more muscle you have, the higher your calories can be and still maintain the same weight.

Edit - The less fat your body has, the harder it is to get rid of. Going from 30% to 21% is pretty easy, but going from 12% to 6% is going to take longer.

I don't recommend going full "junkfood mode" though. Just eat healthy and have your junkfood now and again. It should be fine.

If you notice yourself starting to gain weight or lose your abs, go on a small cut for a few weeks/months to get them back.

If you continue eating "under" a calorie surplus, you'll keep losing weight, until you get to the balance of body weight = calorie intake.

Couple years back I got from 230 to 178, finally had my 6-pack stomach, stopped watching what I ate, sat around the last 2 years and VERY slowly got back to 216 (I figured out I was eating approximately 70 extra calories/day on average). 6-pack is gone... for now. I'm back on a slow cut again.

[missladyj]

Maybe it's a stupid one, but if you are after a calorie deficit period, and you get to for example 10%bf,
you can maintaine that level if you eat under your calorie surplus?

Yes, as long as you are eating maintenance calories, eat adequate protein and lift, you will maintain body fat to muscle ratio with maintenance calories.

A surplus is when you eat more than maintenance and will thus gain muscle/fat.