 the difference between a bulk and a cut. It's whether or not you're eating more calories than you're burning or less calories than you're burning. Now the question is always, well, how do I know if I'm eating more than what I'm burning or less than what I'm burning? The best way is literally to track your normal diet and then you get your average per day and your maintenance is probably around whatever that is. So you just eat your normal diet, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, track everything on an app. At the end of a week, take your total, divide it by seven, there's your average. Now you know if you eat above that, you're in a surplus. If you eat below that, you're in a cut and that's a good place to start. One of the things that's important is when I recommend the calorie tracking, I also tell them I don't want any outside activity that you would normally do. Like if you have been consistently forever working out four days a week, that's fine, you can stay doing that. But don't do any extra activity because I wanna truly find this maintenance out. And so I think a big mistake people make is they're excited, they're pumped up, I'm gonna start this diet and they just start to do everything at once. And it's not how I wanna do that. I wanna slowly introduce activity and then eventually cardio and then cutting and we're kinda playing this game through the whole process of just trying to throw the whole kitchen sink at once.