Day to day cutting vs building

[goexplodex4]

This may sound dumb, but if I lift and eat high calorie days 3 days a week and eat low calorie days and run the other four, can you build/cut at the same time. I heard u can go week to week, but can you go day to day?

 

[~LV~]

A dumb question is a question not asked.

This would not be ideal at all as your body wouldn't know what the hell what to do, build muscle or lose fat.

It's optimal to stick with one or the other until you feel you have achieved your goal.

 

[malkore]

As LV says, the body really works better on 'trends' in the diet. Meaning a consistenty weekly trend of a calorie deficit leads to weight loss (ideally fat loss) while extra calories should lead to muscle mass increase.

The body says "ok, I have extra stuff on a regular basis, and these muscles keep getting torn up...I'll use the extra stuff to make them bigger since I seem to get a steady surplus of stuff all the time"

its for this very reason that one day of cheating on a diet doesn't undo all your weight loss, or a day of bad eating doesn't strip you of the lean mass you gained.