| surely its a good 'base' to start off. If you lose the fat, when you do come to bulking up, it'll be a lot easier to look ripped because the muscle won't be burried under a lot of fat.
As for the idea that your body trying to keep a layer of fat on you, that can't be right. When you do exercise, fat is turned into glucose which is then used up by the body. Where would the fat come from? If it came from the glucose you would have no energy to do anything. The only way you can build fat is eating. The only thing that might happen is fat moving from one part to another but I doubt that | 
