Reasons to Stop Taking Diet Breaks

A brief summary of the existing studies on diet breaks. Full podcast: • Menno Henselmans on Re...
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[@VeNeRaGe]

I’ve been taking a diet break for the last 25 years apparently

[@Sjcstro84]

Your leptin must be high 🤭

[@phreevoycz5635]

Lameness

[@DILFDylF]

You had a goal of losing 10 pounds, and you only have 45 to go 🎉

[@a_woman_who_loves_to_lift]

I saw Mike Matthews on the thumbnail and immediately tapped to listen. Matthews and Menno are the most trustworthy and astute minds in the business. I think they portray integrity and truth-seekingin a sea of for-profit bias.

[@nowayjose596]

Thank you for calling out the issues with the Matador study that so many proponents of diet breaks like to cite. It's been a while since I read it but when I did a number of things jumped out at me that are obviously ignored (read: confirmation bias) when people summarize the findings to conclude that diet breaks are a good idea.

[@sampathkovvali6255]

Good discussion 🎉

[@pippobaudo4418]

Simply the best

[@sylvan47070]

I have done it both ways. Physiologically I don't think they do anything IF you remain active and are exercising regularly. Psychologically they can be essential. Since I exercise regularly, I think my metabolism stays in a good place. If you are sedentary I don't know if its beneficial or not.

[@humbabadook3962]

The reason why you need to break the diet is because it becomes unsustainable.
When you are at the moment you're body is adjusted to you eating very low kcal, which it will eventually, it becomes tough to lower kcal more without at the same time getting too little micronutrition

[@tuukkalaitinen813]

Menno - could you please make a video and elaborate a bit on the topic of "how many reps can one do on a given percentage of 1RM" - you mentioned some of this stuff in some video (sorry I forgot which) and the numbers being mentioned seemed crazily high in my experience (and observing others too). High individual variability? Differences between muscle groups or movements ?

[@kasrasayten9047]

menno , What about people with very adaptive metabolism ?

[@pippobaudo4418]

What about cycling calories every other day?

[@menno.henselmans]

Depends on how you do it and for what purpose.

[@WakeMtz]

What about NEAT (not only resting metabolic rate)? I've found that refeeds every 3-5 days counter act the lethargic feeling you would otherwise have in a low calorie diet for a continuous prolongued time?

[@spoza72]

Facts

[@einsteinx2]

I feel like if you need a refeed every 3-5 days you’re probably just on too hard of a deficit… depending on how many extra calories you take in on your refeed days, you would probably make progress faster by upping the daily calories a bit and skipping the refeeds altogether. But honestly, if it works for you go for it (and I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way). The best diet is the one you stick too and if the refeeds work why not. I’m the opposite where it’s easier for me to stay strict and if I give myself a cheat day it makes it harder for me to stay on but everyone is different.

[@WakeMtz]

@@einsteinx2 The problem is that there is scientific evidence that prolonged *aggressive* calorie deficit has a huge impact on NEAT wich can last long after you stop the calorie deficit. (I am not talking about "metabolic adaptation", we all know BMR adapts very little), the main culprit of NEAT adaptation is Leptin. And for what I've read, refeeds mitigate this really efficiently.