Questions: Health & Fitness

Common knowledge tells us that when we eat more calories than we need, we gain weight; and if we eat less calories than we need, we lose weight. But I wonder what happens if less emphasis is put on the weight or number on the scale and more emphasis is put on the body composition and fat distribution.

Let's take a 250-pound, 6'2'' man. He is the archetypical fat guy, eating too many high-calorie, low-nutrient food products. But one day, he decides, out of the blue, that he just does not want to eat junk food anymore. He wants something new for a change and tries to shop for some cheap, healthy food products at his local supermarkets. He makes sure that his diet is balanced and enough to build muscle through intense resistence-training. Riding a real bicycle can be a form of aerobic, cardiovascular exercise as well as a form of resistence-training (especially if you are trying to ride upslope). To train his upper body strength cheaply, he does bodyweight exercises and educates himself on proper form to avoid injury. His goal is not to lose weight, but to change his body composition, so that he has more muscle than fat, while remaining at the same weight. So, he continues to eat at a calorie surplus, but this time, with good food to supply the growth of muscles. He hopes to remain a big guy, but with more muscles than fat.

Which method do you think works best? Do you think people should eat at a calorie deficit to lose weight, or do you think people should eat at the weight-maintenance level or at a calorie surplus with the intention of changing the body composition especially in regards to building more muscle through weight-lifting, bodyweight exercises, and resistance-training in aerobic exercises?

I work with this guy at a grocery store and he walked me out to my car while ON the clock a few days ago once he saw it was time for me to leave work, he saw me and goes "where are you going?" And I go "home" and he was all noo your not 😞 then proceeds to walk out of the store with me and leaves the store with me and walks me all the way to my car in the back of the parking lot and stays to talk to me for at least 30+ mins about everything really and sits on the hood of my car by kid conversatjon I guess he was comfortable enough to do that lol and told me about his past and such we were getting to know each other and it was light outside a little after 7 when we first got out there and it was dark and about 8pm when he finally went back in cause we saw an employee in the parking lot getting shopping carts. A guy wouldn't just do this for any girl right? Do you think he likes me? I like him lol and we talk at work all the time and joke around and he playfully teases me and will try to come up and scare me when he thinks I would be caught off guard lol please let me know what you think! Thanks!!