I do have a question. With the way I've been dieting I have been loosing fat and gaining muscle. By increasing my food intake will I notice a bigger impact in either loss or gains or both still??
while initially you may noticed slower fat-loss, think of this more in the long-term aspect, and continued sustainability of fat-loss/recomp
more cals initially may mean slightly slower fat-loss, but the trade-off will be increased ability to gain/hold muscle
more importantly: this will allow you room to maneuver cals downward as you go along, when metabolism begins to adapt to lowered cal intake
when you start off with extremely low cals, not only do you sacrifice muscle retention ability in the long-term, you also set yourself up for hitting metabolic wall rather quickly once you adapt, and thus cals being too low to begin with would allow you nowhere to drop those cals lower to continue fat-loss maneuvers
then, you are in a world of hurt..not only have you sacrificed muscle for your efforts, but you have compromised your ability to lose fat as well
this leads to the dreaded "skinny-fat" physiques you see