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Your maintenance calories would rise as you gained weight. I don't think you're getting 20kg out of a fixed +100. I'm suspicious of a lot of your claims, but this really jumped out.

It's a 100 surplus. By definition it is +100 over maintenance

Last sentence doesn't make sense if this is what OP meant. "Once your maintenance drops, running a tiny surplus of just 100 ..." You don't need to drop your maintenance calories, with or without GLPs, to gain weight as you eat at a surplus.

Your maintenance doesn't need to drop, but it's way easier to end up in a surplus when your maintenance is low.

"GLP medications blunt your appetite so you eat less, but you still end up feeling completely drained because your body lacks fuel."

How many people report that? Not that many, AFAIK.

"GLP drugs cannot distinguish between nutrient-dense meals and the junk food binges you are trying to avoid."

This again goes against what people report - aversion to junk food so strong that McDonalds et al. consider this a potential threat to their business model.

If GLPs were that effective, why would these people need such a guide?https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

Bodybuilding it quite an unnatural activity in itself, and the practitioners try to achieve levels of fat that are basically unseen in normal Homo sapiens.

You don't have to go that far; you can stop much sooner at 13-14% BF as a male and 23-24% as a female?

Also, natural bodybuilding exists.

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