>>46015036Well that tells me two things. You eat empty calories and you don't prioritize sleep enough.
Sleep is when your muscle rebuilds itself, so if you have a bad sleep pattern or get low quality sleep regularly, you'll make far less progress than someone with their sleep schedule in order.
Second, unless you make dietary changes, you can't make it while binging on unhealthy foods. If your goal is to gain muscle, you eat a healthy amount of normal food and then binge on snacks, you'll add too much fat from excessive surplus of calories (there's no point in eating more than 500 above TDEE)
If you don't eat more than 500 over TDEE, but a lot of the food you eat is low quality snacks, you won't really have the nutrients needed to make muscle gain
And if you eat a lot of doritos or other snacks and then lose weight, you'll probably lose more muscle than necessary, and still be skinnyfat when you've lost weight.
Rmember, the key to escaping skinnyfat is simple:
Build lean mass if you're more skinny than fat. Skinnyfat means low musclemass and high bodyfat percentage, so if you increase lean mass without adding too much fat, the percentage of musclemass goes up while your bodyfat percentage goes down. Bodyfat percentage goes down not because you actually lost fat, but because percentage wise, you now have less fat compared to other types of mass aka lean mass
And if you're more fat than skinny, the goal should be losing fat while maintaining as much muscle as possible.
But you have to lift and get good routined sleep. That's the key to maintaining/building muscle.
Also, if you're ultradyel, you can actually increase musclemass while on a cut.
Either way, the reason people think it's hard to escape skinnyfat is that they don't work out to maintain muscle, and their diets are too shit to let them build muscle.
Or, they do only cardio, then wonder why they aren't looking any better, even though cardio only helps burn fat and doesn't actually build much musclemass
