2872: Why Going Off Your Diet Can Actually Help You Lose More Fat
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What is a diet break and how is it different from going off your diet?
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How does metabolic adaptation affect fat loss during dieting?
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Diet breaks. This is the process by which you increase your calories or your food intake to take a short break and then get back to your normal diet. Are they beneficial? Do they help with fat loss? Do they help preserve muscle? Should you have diet breaks or should you just stay consistent on your diet? We're going to break down the science and the reasons why we think it's probably a good idea. Let's get to it.
This is a really good topic. I think we get this pretty frequent. We just had this recently on one of our questions and one of our quads. about uh you know should is is three months on a diet too long yeah and um obviously uh context matters and it's a bit nuanced and i think we will talk about all the nuance but generally speaking i think we all agree that uh we wouldn't keep most people on a straight three-month diet yeah
So just kind of break it down a little bit. So a diet break, just to explain it, is not when you go off your diet in the sense that I'm trying to eat in a particular way to lose weight. So that's what we're referring to with a diet. And I just go off and then do whatever and then come back to it. That's not what a diet break is. A diet break is a planned, scheduled, either meal or day or week or weeks where you intentionally get off the diet that you were on, increase your energy intake. So increase your calories and fats, carbs, proteins, whatever, in order to have a better result. Like the idea is to have a better result through this process. And this is a popular strategy that, with coaches, trainers, especially stage presentation athletes like bodybuilders and physique competitors and bikini competitors.
They use this quite often. Sometimes referred to as cheat meals.
It's been a bit... I'm glad you went that way because it's been a bit bastardized into cheat weeks, cheat days, cheat meals. Full-on indulgence. And I think that what... we're trying to communicate and articulate here looks different than that. And that's why I like the term diet break over cheat meal or cheat day, because I think that insinuates that you're going off the rails. We could have whatever you want. And when we would do diet, you know, strategic diet breaks with clients. It wasn't that it wasn't. I told my client like, oh, here's a diet break. Go eat whatever the hell you wanted. It was very strategic. It was very methodical. It's like, OK, for these days, I want you to increase these calories or add this to your diet.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:06
2
What is a diet break and how is it different from going off your diet?
0:06–0:13
3
How does metabolic adaptation affect fat loss during dieting?
0:13–0:38
4
What are the benefits of diet breaks for workout recovery and energy?
0:38–0:44
5
How can diet breaks help preserve muscle during fat loss?
0:44–0:53
6
Why is mental fatigue a significant factor in diet adherence?
0:53–1:10
7
What role does planning play in successfully implementing diet breaks?
1:10–1:23
8
Why should most people consider working with a coach for diet breaks?
1:23–24:50
Speakers
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