Hello Fitness-GAF, looking for some advice.
So I'm what is called skinny fat. I have been cursed with extremely small shoulders (Sometimes Size S is too big for them, but a pretty big belly (about 88cm) and a nice pair of A cups. Wonderful. At 182cm (Age 27) I weighted 85kg, which might be normal by the numbers, but looked absolutely horrible. So my belly exploded and I couldn't wear my Jeans anymore, so I started dieting. I lost 5kg, my belly is down to 80cm (though there is still lots of fat). I basically want to keep going and hope to actually get a flat belly for once in my life. Of course, the rest of my body also looks terrible, you can actually start seeing my rips now..
Now I do have a bench, a long bar and about 60kg in weights at home. I have been starting a bit with bench presses, but nothing serious. Started with 25kg, now I can press 50kg, which is of course still amateur hour. But it did get me interested in weight training.
Anyway, my plan is to keep dieting for a while and then actually start taking things seriously. I have read a lot about plans,etc., but there is one thing I'm pretty lost at. After I have lost enough weight and have a slim waist, is my only option to have a caloric surplus? Because while surely some of the weight gain will be muscle, another part will be fat, making the diet pointless (pretty much every gram I gain is added or substracted to my belly, my genes work that way). I read that you can actually gain muscle with enough protein but without a surplus up to a certain point, and you only need the surplus after that. Is there any truth to that? Do you really need to bulk up, gain tons of fat (GOMAD being a good example), then diet again to lose the fat but keep the muscle? Can't you just bulk up in a clean way?
Thanks for any help.
