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[quote]BlackLabel3 wrote:
Should I be eating more? It came to my attention recently that i may be losing more muscle than necessary.
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I liked that part, the rest…Not so much.
Stats? Lifts?
Your diet is…Weird. A box of raisins for breakfast? Sub 1500 kcal, alot of protein shakes?
You MIGHT be losing muscle because you are getting alot of protein, from whey no less, which, in the absence of other nutrients, the liver turns into sugar via glucogenesis.
Get either protein or fat up to par or a little above your protein in calories,ditch the whey except around workouts, and rely on whole foods which will keep you full longer, and the muscles want to stay on your body.
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Not too shabby for your weight.
The raisins make sense now, in a way 
What I’m saying is, get protein from whole food sources, and get one of your energy sources equal to protein to prevent muscle loss, or the body turning to protein for energy.
So, say you’re getting 200 g of protein a day, you could match that with 200 g of carbs and only essential fats, or you could match it with 110 g ( roundabout) of fat.
As for the refeed, drop it. Seriously. The caloric defecit you have built up over the week goes to shit, fast.
You don’t need it to progress optimally, keep it to one meal tops and leave it at that.
In my experience it’s just way too easy to throw down thousands of calories, which you then have to spend hours upon hours of activity to burn away. Your body can only store so much glycogen, and once you’re full, the adipocytes ( fat cells) are more than happy to help shuffle away the energy.
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Omega3 fats, flax seeds, chia seeds basically. What you don’t get from the foods you eat and your body can’t produce itself.