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023: Are Diet Breaks/Refeeds Useful? When? How? Why?

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Diet Breaks are a dieting strategy that may help improve weight loss efficiency.

Are they useful? What are some benefits (psychological and physiological)?

When do you implement diet break or refeed? How? And, why might you want to?

Notes: Other terms used include ‘Non-Linear Dieting, intermittent energy restriction, or refeed./Diet Breaks are NOT formally defined; a "cheat" or excuse to binge!


Articles/Mentions:

  • Continuous versus intermittent moderate energy restriction for increased fat mass loss and fat free mass retention in adult athletes: protocol for a randomised controlled trial-the ICECAP trial (Intermittent versus Continuous Energy restriction Compared in an Athlete Population) - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2018-000423
  • Intermittent energy restriction improves weight loss efficiency in obese men: the MATADOR study -  https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2017.206

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