Can you Cut Fat and Gain Muscle at the Same Time?

When people have a specific body goals there are always two achievements that they are trying to strive towards: to cut fat and gain muscle at the same time.  But can it be done?
Unfortunately the answer is no.  The diet demands for cutting fat is a lower calorie intake, and trying to burn more calories with cardio and lifting weights, then the calories you consume in a day.  Bottom line you not going to be eating much. On the flip side while you try to gain muscle you have to overfeed your body.  While lifting extremely heavy weights and cutting all of the cardio out of your workout regime, you need the extra energy and calorie intake to feed your muscles to build muscle tissue.  Obviously the problem with these two diets is that they are polar opposites.  Simply put trying to gain muscle and cut fat is like trying to sit down and stand up at the same time.
So how do you lose fat and gain muscle.  Well simply put the only way you can do it is if you do them at different times. If you asked my opinion the easiest way would be to cut the fat and gain the muscle after.
Where is that question how to people get so ripped in such a short amount of time?  The thing about cutting fat is that it makes you look extremely more muscular.  For example take Rain, the Korean Pop Star, who made it big here while filming Ninja Assassin:

Within six months Rain got from skinny and flabby to wash board abs.  Now these before and after pictures can be deceiving, ask yourself the question did Rain gain muscle during these six months?

Although you may think yes, the answer is shockingly no.  During this time he had a pure raw fish and vegetable diet, and did high intensity cardio and weight lifting workout routine, that kept him extremely busy.  During the six months Rain actually lost 12 pounds and cut down his fat percentage to 2%.  So essentially what he had done was cut his body fat down to such a low degree so that all his muscles could be shown.  So in affect Rain is actually CRAZY skinny.

I'm sorry for bringing down all the hopes of some that may have tried to gain muscle and cut fat at the same time, but now you can bring a more realistic goal into fruition.  If you are looking to have your muscles look bigger, you have to cut fat.  And if you want to get that desired bigger look you have to cut weight and then gain it back in muscle.  I'm sorry doing both at the same time is simply impossible.