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I am currently in the process of figuring out a good diet that will work for me. I intend to start a bulking period over the next month+ I don't know my specific goal realistically, since I don't have much experience. But my guesstimate/uneducated goal would be to add 10-15 lbs of muscle(and fat) over the next few months.

I weight 165 and I'm 6'4, I don't know my bf% exactly but I think it is around 14% So, I'm a little flabby for being a skinny guy, I'd like to add a little more mass and then cut a little bit of fat after that.

My question about EFAs is this: Does supplementation of Essential Fatty Acids have an effect on fat already present in the body? I have been reading plenty about it, many sources say that EFA fats are less likely to be stored as fat, this is good, but is that limited to just EFA intake? At the moment my diet is observing a slight caloric deficit as I figure out exactly how and when and what to eat. I have been fitting it around 5-6 small meals a day. By the end of yesterday I consumed 2286 calories, 147g protein and 64g fat. That's just for now, I will be refining this over the next weeks. I figure I probably need closer to 3000 calories to start bulking.

64g fat seems like a lot but almost all of it was from 'good' sources(flax oil, canola oil and the likes). there was probably only 12g of saturated fat tops. No trans fat at all.

Is that bad?

I chose Muscle Milk as a MRP for inbetween meals, that accounted for 32g of fats which are mostly EFAs.

Should I be worried of consuming too many EFAs. When people say they are more likely to be used as energy than stored as fat, does that mean that they can be stored as fat? if so, under what circumstances will they be stored as fat and not energy?

Also, does supplementation of EFAs help prevent your body from eating your muscles in the case of caloric deficit?

Sorry if these questions are a little beginner, I've been researching as much as I can, but sometimes it can be difficult to find conclusive or practical information.

My last question is about caloric deficits and muscle loss. Currently I'm planning on going into a bulking phase, I understand the general concept(and many specifics) of bulking, eat more, grow more, lots of protein, carbs, etc..etc. But after that I would like to do some cutting. I am much less knowledgeable about cutting. In a cutting phase, how do you prevent your muscles from cutting too?

Is it correct that eating 5-6 meals a day with a slight caloric deficit will only burn fat and not muscle?


thanks for any help.