From my personal experience I believe you could with the use anabolics, quite possibly even with out. I ran tren a, and test p in pretty unsteady caloric state… on a daily basis and I would be anywhere from 500-1200 below yet with the use of those compounds based on a dexa scan my lbm went up while I dropped from 13% bf to 11%. Now would I say I could have gotten much more out of that cycle if i ate enough? Yes, but I was young and dumb.