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Cutting Anonymous
Alright /fit/, I took your advice. six months ago or so, I posted here saying I wanted to cut fat, and posted a pic of skinny-fat me. I was reprimanded for it, because cutting is apparently a term used for people who have muscle to begin with. "Endomorph" here (to give you an idea of my initial build, nothing else). Then /fit/ recommended I bulk up first, even though I was purely interested in losing fat--but /fit/ said muscle would help burn fat quickly.

So I began a clean and careful bulk for four months, in that I ate 2500 cal a day half from protein, good nutrition, meal splitting etc. It worked to kill fat, with the great side effect of building muscle I didn't know I was capable of. I put myself on a 5x5, 3 times a week, cardio on inbetween days--the most ideal setup I could figure out for myself.

Now I come to you, /fit/ with a respectable inquiry concerning cutting. So what is cutting exactly? Now that I have this muscle and just want to lose bodyfat like mad since apparently the muscle will help, what does it mean to cut? Is it restricting my calories to 1600 or 1800 or so for a while, perhaps in a zigzag method? Cardio on the side, lifting to maintain whatever muscle I can?

I'm just really confused about cutting, because if I went under a caloric restriction like that, wouldn't I just lose muscle like crazy? Is there a correlation between caloric restriction and the amount of muscle/fat loss, in that a bigger deficit will warrant quicker fat loss at the expense of more muscle too?

What effect does having extra muscle really have on the cutting process that makes it so ideal once said muscle is gained?
>> gay
don't know if troll
>> Anonymous
Not a troll. Just wondering how this works in the more sciency explanation. /fit/ is mostly general information, do this, do that, this will lead to this... but never any explanation. Can anyone explain?
>> Anonymous
Muscles are what turns fat into energy. The more muscle you have, the easier it is for your body to turn excess fat into energy instead of delving into other energy sources such as, well uh, the muscles themselves.

If you keep lifting while trying to cut your body will recognize that your muscles are being used and as such not prioritize them as energy sources, and instead use those to burn de fat. That's why muscles help you lose fat. Take a look at some bodybuilders. They fat up immensively every season, and then they go from fat fucks to muscular handsome lads in just a few months. All that muscle they're packing is basically super-efficient fatburning plants.
>> Anonymous
>>446379
>>Muscles are what turns fat into energy.

Really???
>> Anonymous
>>446399

Yes. There are some parts of muscle-cells, can't remember their names, who are the only part of the body capable of forming the ATP bonds which are our bodies energy source. There's a lot more science behind it than this though but that's the gist of it.
>> Anonymous
>>446432

LOL NO

ATP SYNTHESIS HAPPENS IN EVERY FUCKING CELL OF YOUR BODY WHY DO YOU THINK THEY HAVE MITOCHONDRIA?????

Medfag out.
>> Anonymous
>>446441

this is true
>> Anonymous
>>446453

>>446441here
Well now that I think of it actually... Red cells don't have mitochondria...
>> Anonymous
>>446432
So... fat cells also have this organelle? I know fat cells are at a fixed number, but so are muscle cells, which only grow in size with fiber repair. More muscle doesn't mean more muscle cells, so how does having more muscle contribute to fat loss / cutting?
>> Anonymous
>>446535

Larger myofibrils=more carb requirements=more fat burned
>> Anonymous
>>446553
What stops the muscle from drawing carbs out from its own glycogen stores instead of our presumed model where it comes from stored fat cells? The glycogen is closer.