Title says it all, i want to lose weight and also build some muscle, ive have been hitting the gym and cutting my calories by 500-900cal for the past two months, while i am seeing some muscle growth, its not very substantial or something people around me will notice, ive also lost about 2kgs which is not much so i am thinking of doing a 200cal surplus for a month to see how it goes I wanted to get some advice as well as read other people’s experiences
Someone Brand new to working out will get newbie gains, in the first year of working out a young male can expect to put on around 10lbs of muscle. So around 0.8lbs of muscle a month. But it’ll be front heavy, but even at like 1.5-2lbs a month, fat is less dense then muscle so if you’re losing more fat than muscle you are gonna look smaller.
Look for tone not muscle growth, muscle growth isn’t fast, it’s a slow process and one day you look back at year old pictures and go “damn…”