Which of these would you recommend to a fat man with literally no muscle?

which of these would you recommend to a fat man with literally no muscle?

>lift and eat at a 500 calorie deficit

or

>daily cardio and as big a deficit as they can handle
>after the fat’s gone, start lifting and eating more

lift and deficit, definitely

I guess its time to start lifting.

i've been doing that for a while but my lifts are terrible and the fat loss is very slow

Lift, cardio and as big a deficit as he can handle.

Don't overdo it, tho. Starvation leads to no gains and lose skin.

pic of body, height, weight and amount of calories you're eating

should i maybe just do low weight high rep stuff for now? like SL but 3x12 or something

5'8
147 lbs when this was taken
2000 calories

What's your diet like? I was close to 300 pounds and I found my maintenance calories with no exercise was around 3000. That's A LOT of food, more than I could eat if I ate healthy, whole, foods.

If you're anything like me you'll find you won't need to count calories. Obviously you should starting off, just to make sure, but I struggle to eat at a 25% deficit and usually end up around 40-50%. If you eat the right things you'll find you never go hungry and always end up well below target.

As far as exercise goes: Do both cardio and muscle-building. More muscle means you'll be burning more energy just by having that extra muscle, but if you're doing it right you're not going to be able to make a lot of progress quickly just by lifting. That's where cardio comes in, building muscle is like a long-term weight loss investment whereas cardio has more immediate benefits.

>literally no muscle

You have a lot, actually. The people you see as 'muscular' just have less body fat, they only carry that weight for short periods of time a few days a week... You're carrying it around permanently.

>5'8
>147lbs
>lifting with a deficit

Why are they're people like this?