Caloric surplus debate while on GH stack

Partitioning is real but it's not magic. You'll still gain faster in a 200-cal surplus than at true maintenance. Peptides tilt the ratio, they don't overturn thermodynamics.

Context matters — how lean are you, how trained are you, how old. Lean-and-trained at 40 can recomp at maintenance. Untrained or already fluffy, you won't.

Protein at 1g/lb minimum, carbs around training, fat fills the rest. If you're not hitting those basics the stack is doing half the work it could.

Also: check IGF-1. If you're not elevating IGF-1 to a meaningful degree the 'stack' is just ipa daydreaming. Numbers first.

100-150 above maintenance, slow, patient. Bulking hard while on GH just gets you fluff and insulin resistance.

Makes sense. Going to try 150 surplus for 8 weeks and re-panel. Thanks all.

Re-DEXA at 8 weeks not just re-panel. Scale weight is noise on a small surplus.

honestly the recomp at maintenance thing works but it's slow as hell. you're basically relying on the GH to do all the heavy lifting on body comp while your muscles aren't getting the raw materials to actually grow. small surplus like the guy said, 100-150 over, lets the GH partition way better and you'll actually see noticeable size changes instead of just wondering if anything happened in 8 weeks. maintenance recomp is more for people already lean trying to stay lean, not for actually building.