Hey!

I posted this on my Instagram last week. I think it's a really important lil video so I want you all to see it. And if you've already seen it, great, thank you! You can prob afford to watch it again😁. 

You can find the post HERE. 

And here is the caption of the video:

"Great study by @billcampbellphd explaining that you cannot ALWAYS BE DIETING AND RESTRICTING. You can’t always be trying to lose weight, our body does not like that. Periods of “diet breaks” are necessary if we want to see long term body composition changes. We need to go into times of maintenance calories and surplus calories to get our bodies where we want them to be. Constant dieting will lead to constant failure."

If we look above, the graph on the left shows that individual taking "diet breaks" while still maintaining a deficit. This individual can also build more lean body mass when their calories are in maintenance or surplus. If we are constantly dieting (like the graph on the right), its very hard to build lean muscle mass which makes it very hard to have a high resting metabolic rate (calories burned at rest/throughout the day). This is also very hard to sustain which leads to constant binges and periods of weight gain. The more muscle we have, the more calories we can eat and the more calories we will burn by just walking around.

The goal of fitness is to build muscle, not to try to lose as much weight as possible in the fastest way possible...that usually doesn't work out too well for ya. You'll gain it back and/or keep spinning in circles year after year after year...trust me...I see it everyday. Every. Single. Day. Stop chasing a number on the scale...chase protein and being strong as fuck. 

Much Love,

Nick ✌🏻

Owner

B3 Strength & Conditioning

Bodybybolio.com