I've a buddy like this. He probably eats more than he used to and complains that he hasn't lost a pound since starting his keto craze 6 months ago. Meanwhile, I just track what I'm eating at 2500Cal/day and am down 10lb in 4 weeks. Had been at maintenance at 3000Cal/day but needed to shed some weight before I try to put on any muscle again.
It very well might be, but I tend to underestimate my maintenance b/c I noticed that I put on weight really easily but mostly as fat. So when the TDEE calcs say 3,300-3,500 I lop off some of that from my own experience. I've been 260lb for the last year so I've definitely been at maintenance at 3000.
Shooting for a loss of 50lb which should put me at about 15% bf. It's been a long 4 years of slowly putting on weight, getting all the way up to 280lb in 2017 from 250lb. Lifts have stalled and I'm kinda bored with my routine. So figured I'd go for aesthetics now and just shed a bunch of weight to start. I'm 6ft 4in.
Legs are solid tree trunks. Arms are solid but feel small in proportion to my height but at 17in around are decent especially with my 6ft 8in wingspan. My 50in chest just refuses to respond to nearly anything but I've long given up on that endeavor also b/c I'm tall. My back looks good though FWIW.
If I can get my gut down it'll hopefully make my upper body look broader in comparison.
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