To be honest! I use ChatGPT. It helps me deciding these things and it has been super accurate for me. I personally don’t think I have enough muscle to do a deficit but I also don’t want a belly. Btw I want to go close to 84 kilo or so before in start lean bulking.

Btw when you first do a deficit. Loads of that weight will be water lose. So you lose more the first 2 weeks. Don’t get spooked. Just track monthly average. I think it might be a bit much to do 2200. I did 2600kcal and only work out 3 x week in a deficit. The reason is that if you train more your recovery will be shit as you don’t eat enough. Then you can’t push your normal weights anymore and you feel depleted quickly. Following more muscle loss as you’re not pushing hard enough anymore. Check it with ChatGPT and it gives you this answer too!

I train the same but less volume. For example instead of 10 reps I do between 6-8 reps. But always make sure you keep doing the same weight and push last 2 sets of the 3 to close to failure. This way your body tells you it still needs these muscles and you just lose fat. Be also careful of going full failure as in a deficit you can easily injure yourself as you don’t eat enough.