ELI5, what happens when you consume more calories than you use, if you are working out? Do you gain weight as muscles, fat or both?
In: Biology
Only extreme amounts of ‘working out’, including muscle building, will balance any surplus of kcal intake.
This also makes weight loss efforts difficult as it becomes harder to measure your drops in weight along with gains in muscle weight. I’d encourage a cut first to a goal weight, no muscle building, then it becomes much easier to track progress to that goal weight. Then from there you could bulk for building muscle.
Keep in mind the BMI is source agnostic; fat and muscle weigh something and load your joints and heart. Gravity is unkind to both, its not healthy
Latest Answers