They really , really aren ' t . Stop whining . <| sep |> Depends on how well you can actually follow intuitive eating . It ' s absolutely possible to recomp while intuitive eating , heck it ' s kinda what ' s going on for me right now without really even trying I only count calories when I need to make weight for a powerlifting meet but it ' s one of those things where you have to have a really good idea of what you are eating and if you ' re willing to , use daily weights to selfregulate OR measure yourself frequently It would not be sensible to measure yourself on a daily basispotentially weekly or every other week might make more sense I guess what I am saying is , intuitive eating to recomp can be very effective if you already know a lot about what you are eating and if you are willing to use some kind of metric to see if what you are doing is actually effectiveif you weigh yourself every day , for example , and see that you are gaining about 1 lbweek consistently it ' s probably not all musclemost of that is fat . You can put on fat relatively quickly , but you can ' t put on that much muscle that quickly without something like steroids . if you ' re staying roughly within a 5 lb window so to speak this is what I do . I stay between 115120 lbs then you ' re doing a pretty decent job of recomping , just be aware of how much weight you gainlose and how quickly since this will tell you what ' s going on ie muscle gains vs fat loss