Sentences with phrase «diet break»

Naturally skinny people tend to gain a lot less fat when taking diet breaks and sometimes even lose a little.

Moreover, I think the practical implications of diet breaks are one of the most important things for realistic weight loss success, and maintaining that success for the lifetime long run.

Being able to effectively implement diet breaks will make fat loss — and weight maintenance thereafter — much, much easier.

We've talked about diet breaks in a previous podcast on binge eating.

After 12 weeks of strict calorie restriction, take a 2 week diet break and eat at your new maintenance calories before going for another 12 weeks.

The same can be said for longer diet breaks, if and when they're needed.

The general recommendation is to use diet break every 6 — 8 weeks if you're under 15 % body fat and every 10 — 12 weeks if you're above that.

Some experts suggest taking small diet breaks that last a few days, so you can allow the hormone called leptin to increase and bring your metabolism back on track.

I am really looking forward to diet break now.

The brownies look gorgeous, soft and moist and if I look at them much longer I'll break my diet

To reiterate the math, a single day at a 10 % calorie surplus merely brings a weekly 20 % deficit to a 16 % deficit, and two days at maintenance brings a 20 % weekly deficit to a mere 14 % deficit — you're not going to significantly impede your progress with regular short diet breaks, even to the tune of 1 - 2 times a week.

Before you start your next contest prep, consider going on a reverse diet to give yourself the best possible fat loss advantage up front, and then implement periodic diet breaks to keep those results coming at a consistent rate.

The importance of regular diet breaks and refeeds to keep things physiologically normalized.

I've documented my experience before with a much needed diet break, and though it could have been much worse, I might have been able to avoid the issues discussed therein had I read this book.

When was the last time you allowed yourself a TRUE diet break?

I was managed to get down to ~ 10 % bf during my cut and then took one month off kinda diet break and now feel a bit fatter and gained roughly 8kgs.

In today's podcast, we're going to talk about a more specific and structured kind of diet break called a «refeed.»

Refeeds are also more structured than a typical diet break or, even though I hate this term, «cheat day.»

With the Christmas diet break combined with a few days of indulgence on special occassions throughout the year we keep ourselves sane while dieting.

We'll talk about refeeds and diet breaks in a moment.

Consider a set of before / after pics I took from a 2 week diet break, during which I ate at maintenance +10 % and took 2 days of full blown ad libitum (meaning no counting) eating:

was not helpful very much, I sometimes suffer from low blood preasure on raw food diet to an extent that I have to break my diet

If you've been going at it for a while — say months, and your weight loss is coming to a stand still, it might be time to incorporate a short diet break.

I recommend periodic diet breaks, free - meals (where the calorie intake is the same, but macros are ignored), and a relaxed attitude to counting macros, but I don't see cheat days as being part of your diet.

I'll try to keep this section as concise as possible — there are indeed entire books written upon the diet break concept, one of which I recommend on this site and will refer to at the end.

Specifically, a diet break means raising your food intake to or above your «maintenance» level of calories so that you're no longer in a calorie / energy deficit.

But lets say you decide to take a «short» diet break and allow yourself maintenance calories for the day, or maybe even a 10 - 20 % surplus?

For «short» diet breaks, I'd say take as many as you want, as crazy as that sounds, especially if you don't care about postponed results.

A lot of people fear rebounding hard and putting all of the weight back on if they take a diet break.

For «long» diet breaks, it's prudent to take one at least every few months.

Keep in mind this would be in addition to «short» diet breaks that are intermittently sprinkled in.

The best way to informally organize the diet break concept is to break it into two types: short and long.

If suppressed levels are the result of several weeks of dieting, then it's entirely possible for them to restore with a ~ 2 week diet break, maybe even less (barring extreme prior restriction — we're assuming the dieter isn't doing a reckless crash diet).

And that's about it — the specifics of a diet break aren't complicated, the issue is mostly just being patient enough to defer results in exchange for being sufficiently realistic.

This is the most important section of this post, mainly because, while the science behind the diet break concept is now fairly well known and discussed, the practical implications behind the diet break concept appear to be vastly underdiscussed.

We'll define a «short» diet break as anything less than 24 hours, and a long diet break as anything longer than 24 hours.

Then you learn how to incorporate free meals, free days, diet breaks, and refeeds into your fat loss plan.

Third, you'll discover how to use this cycle to take a «diet break» so you maintain a healthy metabolism that wants to burn fat for the long haul.

I am thinking to take a diet break and then move to your program as my next step.

n some cases, you may not gain any fat from a diet break, but it's likely you may gain a small amount.

After a diet break, your cortisol levels go down, you lose water weight, and you experience what some people call «the whoosh effect,» where you lose a bunch of water and finally experience a break through in weight loss.

This is also assuming you have diet breaks and refeeds throughout this period.

Even if your diet break doesn't make a really big difference in physiological parameters, it can have a big impact on your mental state.

These people also dieted hard for the entire study period and never inserted refeeds or diet breaks, which probably made things much worse.

When I'm on a diet break, however, I will eat those extras.

In practice, diet breaks are very advantageous.