I always see young people on here saying they want to lean bulk because they think you can get a crazy amount of size while staying absolutely shredded.
Kids this is not how it works. You need to eat in a surplus. You will gain excess fat during that time. The point of bulking is to eat more than maintenance calories, workout with intensity, recover well, and GAIN! Pack on as much muscle as you can. Max regeneration. But some of that will be converted to fat unless you have great genetics or crazy insuline sensitivity.
If you're trying to stay cut by not eating, then you're just going to put the brakes on your muscle building and force your body to eat its own gains. You're going to build at 10mph vs 100mph for some what? abs? Some chicks you wanna impress? Young kids worry about abs, big boys worry about everything else. Which one are you going to be? Either you bulk or you cut. Lean bulking is not a thing.