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Do Diet Breaks Actually Work for Metabolism Recovery and Fat Loss?
A diet break won't give you more fat loss. Two weeks at maintenance won't "reset" or "restore" your metabolism either.
But I still use diet breaks with almost every client over 40, but for totally different (but beneficial) reasons.
We lay out a simple framework for using maintenance breaks to reduce diet fatigue, improve adherence, and avoid panicking when the scale jumps, including:
Where diet break claims come from, including metabolic adaptation and the MATADOR trial design
What meta-analyses find on fat loss, lean mass, and dropout rates
Why resting metabolic rate is not the whole…
The skinny
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