Increasing calories

Diet and Nutrition
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Hi all
What is the term for increasing calories slowly after dieting down for a long period of time so not to gain back fat and bodyweight ?

So basically trying to eat as much food as your new bodyweight can handle without gaining fat and bodyweight then holding that for a time frame before dieting down again.

Any help is appreciated.

Aaron

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Reverse dieting

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Magic

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Think you misread that, heā€™s talking reverse dieting into maintenance.

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And you are going to gain bodyweight.

How are you going to increase calories after a long time dieting down and not gain weight?

He is basically trying to have a ā€œdiet breakā€ while not gaining any weight back. It does not work that way.

Competitors might do this but, weight is gained. They drop 15+ lbs. take a diet break gain few couple lbs. then go back to dieting.

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As long as you understand that ā€œas much food as your new bodyweight can handleā€ means to not add any more fat, that is to ā€œmaintainā€ current body fat percentage which is commonly called a maintenance diet.

I am guessing that you want to have a pause in dieting to lose fat. It makes sense to me that you are hoping to create a new ā€œset pointā€ for your body composition. This is a very good long-term strategy. Then add process improvement iterations.

My question to you is how far are you to having the body composition goal that you have imagined?
Where did you start? That is, what was your starting body weight?
What is your current body weight?
Were you able to maintain your strength losing fat this past stretch?

While you are maintaining this pause weight, attempt to establish a strength that you can attempt to maintain when you start dropping fat again.

Remember the obvious goal in bodyBUILDING is to build muscle.

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Slowly, i.e. reverse dieting. Allowing your bmr to increase with the cals, thereā€™s always flexibility in the metabolism, not like adding an extra 50 cals per day will impact the scale, do that, wait a week, rinse and repeat, you may not maintain exactly the same weight, nobody does day to day, but if you do it slowly itā€™ll be ounces not pounds.

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