micro bulking (day at a time)
During my cut, if I get overcome by the urge to do extra volume at the gym and end up sore the next day, then that day becomes a bulk day. Soreness goes away faster when I eat more food.
I read from clean/lean bulking articles that bulking only needs to be 200-400 calories above maintenance. Your goal should be to gain 0.5-1 pound per week, half of which will be muscle and the other half will be fat. Eating more won't grow you faster but will get you fat faster and require a longer cut later.
Armed with that information, I only up my daily calories by about 200 today. I'm not that sore. Before I had this information, I would have eaten more than that to try to get over soreness faster. As soon as the soreness passes, I'll be back to cutting. I'm afraid to cut and be sore at the same time. That just makes me think protein burning maybe.