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Common Questions About Weight Loss Diets

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The Big Myth About Reverse Dieting

Reverse dieting is simply jumping to maintenance accomplishes the thing that a lot of people are trying to do with reverse dieting. In many cases you basically have to incrementally bump your calories up just to stay at maintenance because metabolic adaptation starts to kind of reverse itself when you go from negative to neutral energy balance. As long as you're not keeping yourself at very very low calorie intakes for an indefensibly long period of time generally speaking there's no really significant downsides in most common applications of reverse dieting so I think the evidence is quite weak if you're trying to supportreverse dieting.

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