I have been training for 5 years, over the last year it has been really on and off due to injury and Children. I am about to get back into the weight training seriously with a dedicated attitude. Obviously over this year my body fat has increased from 13% to 20% and my muscle mass has decreased and definition as I have not being performing weight on a regular basis. My current weight is 13st 12ilbs.

I know it is not possible to gain muscle and lose fat as these are two different goals and you must chose one. My goal is to ultimately lose fat, get to around 13% and then bulk up from there, when my body fat reaches 20% from bulking I will cut, hopefully with more muscle than I have now.

My question is this, rather than cutting my calories now to say 2500 calories for cutting should I have them at around 3000 calories eating high protein clean diet, could I possibly then build muscle and lose fat in the first few weeks, seen as though I have not trained with weights for a while and it’s a new stimulus and I may reapply old muscle I use to have. Then once I hit a fat loss plateau I then reduce the calories

What are thoughts guys. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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