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Correct. If you're eating your maintenance calories, the calories eaten in place of burned calories will be used to build the muscle. Really the only way to recomp is eating maintenance while lifting weights and/or doing HIIT or LISS. I've been recomping for a few months now exactly like that, and I've seen fantastic gains. Good luck!

Female @ 57kg

Squat 75kg

Deadlift 134kg

Bench 48kg

Total 257kg

Last time I checked, I managed 3x5 at 165lbs. Aiming for 200 by October. I can do it