A part-time diet to lose weight and at the same time maintain a healthy metabolism, avoiding the counterproductive effect of weight gain in the maintenance phase .

A study I had already told you about, that of the University of Tasmania on two samples of obese people.

Of the two samples, one had been on a diet for 16 weeks, the other on a diet for 4 weeks in a row and then ate normally for two weeks and resumed the diet for another 16 weeks.

The scientific team found that those on diets with intervals in which they returned to a normal diet had no metabolic problems or regaining the weight lost at the end of the diet .

Today, however, a new book, “The Part-Time Diet “ written by Professor Michael White contains all the studies on the yo-yo effect and long-term weight loss , confirming what researchers have already discovered. .

THE PART TIME DIET

Michael White would have noticed that the slowdown of the metabolism takes place in a clear way already after the first four weeks of a low-calorie diet.
And that if we want to avoid gaining the lost weight, it is advisable to take a break from the diet.

Even Lyle McDonald, a well-known physiologist and sports kinesiologist, had talked about “diet breaks” with the Full Break Diet method .

McDonald had come to the same conclusions as the university researchers and Dr. White.

Do 4 weeks of a low calorie diet and then go back to maintenance calories for two weeks.

For the part-time diet to work , after the first four weeks of the diet, you need to do two by eating enough calories to maintain the new weight.

Then resume the diet for another 4 weeks, take 2 weeks off according to the new caloric needs and so on.

If our pre-diet metabolism was 2000 calories and we dieted for 4 weeks at 1400 or 1500 calories, losing 2 pounds, our new requirement will be 1950 calories.

It is obviously just an example , but to understand how to put it into practice I suggest this article: Daily calorie requirement, how to determine it.