#290: Menno Henselmans & Eric Helms, PhD - Diet Breaks, Calorie Cycling & Muscle Retention
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The Benefits of Intermittent Dieting
I think with a contest prep it obviously matters how much muscle is retained or as much as we can. I would be concerned about the weight regain there's some decent data that suggests that hyperfage is going to be predicted by lean body mass losses. If someone loses a bunch of muscle on a cut their hunger levels and their left in ghrelin balance are not going to normalize until they've regained that lean body mass so that's a big component of it. But intermittent dieting gives you chances to practice maintenance which I think is an invaluable and undervalued tool.
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