Has anyone ever dieted this way?

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Re-gaining muscle after a 5 month break, while losing some fat - advisable or not?

So, for various reasons, for the past 5 months, I have not set foot in the gym. In the beginning, I was nursing an injury (whilst not being completely bedbound, I was still quite inactive), and in the last month, all i’ve done was running. Today, I went back and did some free weight and machine stuff for 50% of my old 1RM (if that.) not surprisingly, i’ve lost a lot of strength and quite a bit of muscle mass, but also gained around 10-15 lbs of unwanted fat. I know that the mechanism of muscle…