So, guys, Derek, moreplacemoredays.com. Today we are going to be talking about maintenance calories.

So this is a topic that you would think I would have covered by now.

I probably have at some point in the past few years, but more recently, kind of through a sushi's following,

they kind of wanted me to touch on it because this is sort of what I've been working with him on

in terms of increasing his maintenance calories whilst trying to maintain reasonable body

composition to kind of prime his metabolism in order to set himself up for a successful bulk

or a successful cutting phase for summer where he is not suffering with his leptin and gurelin

completely dysfunctional so how would you increase your maintenance calories and be able to

get to a higher set point and eventually allow yourself to diet at more

reasonable of a calorie intake that's easier to adhere to i suppose um because obviously like it's no secret that once you've started cutting for a long duration of time,

hunger hormones start to creep up on you, your brain chemistry gets all fucked up and you end up

like this is a normal response physiologically, but you start to get intense cravings to the

point that it's nearly unsustainable to stick to this deep

deficit without either binging and or you know significant pharmacology intervention in order to

you know kill your appetite with stimulants nicotine whatever the fuck it is milanotan tons of different

shit you can be deploying but you know ideally you'd want to avoid doing that you

want to set yourself up for as successful of a cutting phase as possible while being able to

eat as much food as possible so priming your metabolism you know it's not like uh like eventually

whatever you're eating your body is going to adapt within reason like if you jump from let's just say

2,500 calories is your, you know,

where you're maintaining your weight and you're deep in a cut and you jump all of a sudden

overnight to 4,000 calories, yeah, you're going to adapt to that eventually. But you

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