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Should you do diet breaks?

Diet breaks are a popular dieting tool in evidence-based fitness circles. Diet breaks are claimed to improve muscle retention, fat loss and diet adherence. We collaborated with the University of South Florida and other researchers to investigate if there was any truth to these claims in our newly pu…

Diet breaks are renowned for psychological benefits, but research indicates they also play a physiological role in successful fat loss diets.

At the last Ultimate Evidence Based Conference in Australia, Danny Lennon invited Eric Helms and me to discuss calorie cycling and diet breaks. This was a great in-person discussion for those interested in more advanced nutritional programming.Click here for more options to listen to or download the…

Abel Csabai from the Sustainable Self-Development Podcast interviewed me on refeeds and diet breaks, along with general dieting psychology. I really like this topic, as I feel like many people aren’t very evidence-based when it comes to psychology just because it’s a fuzzy science compared to the cl…

A brief summary of the existing studies on diet breaks. Interviewed by Mike Matthews from Muscle for Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR_Doo_0jHE Timestamps: 0:00 - Please leave a review of the show wherever you listen to podcasts and make sure to subscribe! 15:01 - Is it okay to cut for 8 mont…

Do diet breaks help preserve muscle mass or your metabolism? If you’ve been following my work for a while, you should know my answer, but a great new study by my highly respected colleagues Jackson Peos, Eric Helms, James Krieger et al. provides more hard data in strength trainees. The trainees perf…