How To Keep Your Cheat Meals In Check

                       

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Take A Two Week Break From Your Diet? It May Help You Lose Weight.

Is the key to losing weight tossing your diet to the side? It just may be—at least for a small break, that is, as a new study in the International Journal of Obesity suggests.

In the study, 51 obese men were split into two weight loss groups: One took on 16 weeks of continuous dieting, eating 33 percent fewer calories than would be necessary to maintain their weight. The second took “diet breaks.” They stuck to that same diet for two weeks, then “broke” the diet for two weeks, during which they ate the number of calories necessary to maintain their weight. They kept up this pattern so they had 16 total weeks of dieting, too.

Six months after their dieting expert ended, those the diet cyclers ended up about 18 pounds lighter than those who dieted straight through.

So how did this work? When you’re losing weight, your body goes through a process called adaptive thermogenesis, says obesity expert Spencer Nadolsky, D.O., author of The Fat Loss Prescription. 

“Your metabolism (resting metabolic rate) is expected to lower because fat and muscle burn calories at rest. Your resting metabolism is based off your weight. So when you lose weight, it should decrease,” Dr. Nadolsky explains.

Related: Why You Regain Weight After You Stop Your Diet. 

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