Thread: Help for sort of a recomp?

I need your help, bbbros.

So I'm at weird state of my fitness/fatloss journey.

I have been losing weight for a good long while, and have gone from around 265 to my present weight of 167. Around two years ago, I was in solid shape, also muscle wise, and was probably around 180 or so. Not super strong or anything, but in decentish shape. I have always had trouble getting the last fat off, but it was getting there. However, after the corona year with little to no training, I have actually lost a lot of weight, but seemingly recomped for the worse, losing a lot of muscle and now actually being quite fat around the belly area.
This ofcourse can't stand! - I will thus try and remedy the situation.

I used to do a standard program of ABxABxx but this has obviously been stifled hard by the rona. I have gotten access to some relatively light weights, but have at least some ability to workout- No heavy squatting and deadlifting though unfortunately.

So, you know the situation, do you have any advice for me? Should i be trying to gain muscle, recomp or cut? I feel like a cut would be detrimental, as I'm most likely extremely weak at the moment, so at least some sort of attempt to scale up my strength is probably the move to make.

I want to hear everyone's take though.

If you need pictures, let me know.

Not unusual situation at all - got to gain muscle and lose fat. If you aren't super skinny or super fat then the order you tackle those in isn't that important. So contrary to what a lot of people think, being in the middle ground gives you more options not more problems.

Work hard with the weights you have and try to stay the same weight whilst making progress for now. Ensure you are getting at least 130g of protein per day. So this would basically be a recomp - but if progress starts to slow then add 200 cals and see if that gets it moving again.