You can regain body fat really quickly, but you can't regain lean body mass very quickly.

So I'm not sure that is a rationale for saying that should be the goal for everyone.

As soon as the subjects have regained their original body weight, we see that there is actually no metabolic damage.

The last thing you want to do is take someone like Menos said who is eating 3,000 calories a day pre-cut,

ends up at 2,000 calories a day, and jumps right back to 3,000.

All right, everyone, welcome to the ice cream for Pierre's podcast. My name is Jeff Nippard, and I'm your host.

And joining me this week, I've got an all-star lineup of guests with me, and I'm going to get to introducing them in just a minute.

But first, I just want to get into what it is that we're trying to accomplish here with this episode.

So my basic goal here was to bring together who I think are really the best

coaches and researchers and athletes themselves who are speaking about the topic of reverse dieting

and host what's going to be a formal debate around the topic. So in case some of you guys aren't familiar with that term, we're going to be using reverse

dieting to mean the methodical, typically slow introduction of calories after a cut or a weight

loss period for the sake of improving metabolic rate and mitigating fat gain.

And basically how we're going to set this up is I will serve as the moderator.

So for the sake of this discussion, I will be completely neutral.

Any of the preconceived ideas that I have about reverse dieting, I'll just leave off the table.

And I'll also encourage you guys to do the same.

So whether you think reverse dieting is great or it's a pile of crap,

I just encourage you to really listen to the experts and hear what it is they have to say.

And then when you come out the other side you can come to an

educated decision based on the evidence presented just to introduce our our guests here so

representing the against reverse dieting side in their speaking order i've got eric helms on the

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