You don't count calories, you count plates or bowls
lol I do this and I am cutting
Both me and my house mate do the same training and diet now.
We have either chicken wings or 25% fat ground beef
We both count number of fats a day and use that as the metric, oddly enough.
Pretty much just take body weight in pounds, times it by 2.2 for grams of protein a day, then halve that for fats. Then we organise this into grams of chicken wings or mince needed for an entire day. Divided into 4 then put in 4 tupperware.
We call each tupperware 1ui. Yes, I am fucking hilarious.
So for me with only eating chicken wings I eat 7kg a week so that is 250g of chicken wings = 1ui.
So monday/tuesday/thursday I will have 4ui for dinner
Wednesday and Sunday I will have 2ui for lunch and 6ui for dinner