Fair enough—I guess I’ve just got to trust that you know your body. Even so, I’ll remind you that this:
was exactly my experience when I stopped all of my calorie counting voodoo BS back in June 2021.
That transition was VERY hard, because I definitely got fluffier—but only at first. Then my body found out what it could do with the “extra” nutrition I was now giving it, and I got bigger and stronger and leaner than I had ever been while trying to find “optimal.”
Now I know I’m not you, and bodies are unique—but there are clear patterns for success in some of the logs on this site and none of us are so very different. We are all human, after all.