Eating advice for middle aged guys
Hi all, I am a 44 year old male, 5'10", 172 pounds. I recently lost a lot of weight (from Sept. 2020 -> Sept. 2021 I lost ~100 pounds by cleaning up my diet and utilizing intermittent fasting). I started strength training with barbells this past December. Actually, I was only exercising I suppose - I found "Starting Strength" and "The Barbell Prescription" this month and the approach really resonated with me.
At any rate, I am attempting a NLP and trying to eat correctly to support it. I am pretty active and estimate my maintenance calories to be around 3,000 (I do track). My question is - should I really eat 4,000 calories to support recovery? If I were 24 instead of 44, sure, but can I effectively utilize all those calories at my age? Obviously everyone is different and nobody can say for sure (I am running an experiment, haha), but I'm curious if other middle-aged dudes have had success utilizing a reasonably large caloric surplus. Thanks!