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So you are saying that your daily use of calories is 2,800. About 1,000 calories a meal would be maintenance, with 1,800 calories coming from fat reserves. I would make sure you don’t go bellow that. I would also make sure that you bump up your nutrition; whey, flaxseed oil, no empty calories. That would dry your fat in a hurry.
1,500 calories per feeding widow would be more fun. Still focusing on nutrition, still getting 1,300 calories from fat reserves. That would also be enough to try and feed some sugar calories on ATP, creatine may help. By definition if it works creatine will retain water weight as it takes 3\~5 grams of water to lock up 1 gram of carbohydrates in your body. Still; being flush with carbs does make heavy lifts easy.
Even 2,000 calories per meal window would work, provided that you are really burning 2,800 a day. This may be necessary if your are a mid level lifter still working on PRs. When I was power lifting my best training session ever was after a thanksgiving dinner.
So pick your priorities and then pick your targets.