it depends on your position in the process calories in vs calories out is just a law of thermodynamics, you are not photosynthesising aftercall burn more energy than you expend and you will lose weight hormones are driven by a load of factors and one of them is body comp, you have that backwards body recomp is not just a meme, you just eat a slight calories deficit while working to build muscle and eating a load of protein if you want to really get down to bodybuilder levels of body fat you may need to switch to intermittent fasting if you are super fat you should look in to keto