Thank you!! 😌🙏This conversation helped me alot!

Thank you!! This conversation helped so much!

Talking to a nutritionist does sound like a good plan, unfortunately I live in the middle of nowhere USA so I'd have to travel a bit to see one.

I'm overweight for my height at least not in my mind tragically so, 220 at 5'9 my goal is both to put on muscle while also losing weight, a lifestyle change is exactly what I need tbh, I don't want to diet, simply eat less which I guess is "dieting" but it's not as strict, I mean I could eat 1500 calories of McDonalds and call it a day.

So if said overweight 6'5 man just stayed in bed all day, and ate 1500 calories. He'd lose weight rapidly then? Even with no exercise?

Ohh ok, see I didn't even think about basic bodily needs outside of the gym, that makes it much easier to understand how that's obtained now! So from your example, I could even eat 1500 calories and still lose weight from just normal everyday bodily needs?

This is what always gets me, I've got a very active job (I'm a CO, so while doing my rounds I walk at least 6 miles up and down stairs a day) but even on the treadmill reaching high calorie output numbers seems daunting.

I weight train, and then do cardio on top of my job, although even if I eat 1500, spending 20 minutes on the treadmill only burns about 500 calories, where does the extra 1100 come from?

Let me know if I'm understanding this correctly then, so to lose said weight, if my goal is to eat 1000 calories, I do then need to actually burn 1500 calories to lose weight?

Could I not just burn 500 for example because I'm already in a huge calorie deficit by only consuming 1000?