Keys to Success When Reverse Dieting

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Reverse Dieting: What Is It and Should YOU Try It?? | MIND PUMP

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[amberhollo]

The fear of weight gain during the reverse is so real. Im binge watching videos to help re-affirm to myself that its ok to gain a little at first.

[Tobias_Kevorkazito]

Great info… I did a reverse recently and I was getting fat. Great point that Sal said that the reverse diet can be paused to entertain a cut. Started that today. Thanks Bella and MP team 💪🏻🥊

[kristinrigby]

I'm just now seeing this. LOVE it! I've been reverse dieting for 18 weeks. I'm 5'3" and 103 lbs plus or minus a lb or two. I'm up from 1450 to 1850 and have been maintaining. I haven't gained or lost any weight. I'm continuing to increase calories very slowly. I need to put on a little body fat. Thanks for the great video! 😀 P.S I just finished reading Sal's book "The Resistance Training Revolution". Amazing! Thanks man! Freakin LOVE it! Have recommended to several people.

[UnacceptableTee]

This is me. So little calories for so long. Like 600-1000. I started gaining after going through several major sudden traumas and another burnout. ( cortisol from high stress ) plus so tight everywhere all I could do was walk everyday.
I was concerned about weight gain so I cut carbs; real low. Hair started falling out; felt horrible but I was feeling horrible for years working 3 jobs; single mom; High stress high responsibility jobs. Then huge traumas hit all at once.
I heard about reverse dieting; so I’ve been doing that since July 2022. Hit maintenance in early October and have continued that cal level. I stopped walking so much; cut that down to 3-4 days a week/ 30 min rather than 2 hours/ day. Feeling way better. My body was so tight all over especially in arms; so painful; shoulders / rotator ( upper body mainly) but some trouble with plantar a little. I’m not able to strength train upper with weights so I haven’t done anything but walking. Getting treatments for injures last few months; and I just started doing upper strengthening mobility exercises with no weights and will keep up while my massage therapist is off for 6 weeks. I used to be so fit. 😢Very weak areas kind of all over. I have always followed body for life and it got me in shape after each baby ( 5 ) and I can’t wait to start it again. How do you do this right? like with strength training no weights; do I cut some calories now? Or do I stay at maintenance? I’ve been maintaining since October 2022. Do I add little more walking? Or just stay the same with adding strength training until I gain some strength. I read few times you shouldn’t cut and increase exercise at once as you could use that as a tool few moths in. I dunno 🤷🏼‍♀️ it’s so hard to know what is right. I have to lose 15 lbs before sx. Any advice appreciated 🙏🏻

[dp]

I’m up from 1300 to 1700 calories over a 3 month span with heavy lifting 3x week. No weight gain.

[jilenethompson]

I love this video! I’ve been learning so much from you guys!

[FFlores-frew]

Get a scale and use a tape measure for waist measurements

[genreartwithjb]

I started doing push-ups everyday and every 4 days I’ve gone over 2000 calories and on the other days I’ve increased my intake by 100-150 and I actually lost 6 lbs…. Some of that is water but I think I need to increase my intake. I will say I have been seeing marginal strength gains from the push-ups. I do 12 slow pushups a day and I can do 22 to failure. I’m in my 40s so 22 to failure isn’t that bad. Arms feel more solid. I am actually doing a combination of what you guys recommend AND what Jeff Nippard recommends to keep my metabolism guessing. I also log ten k steps but I was doing that before I dieted so I sort of bake that in.

[beautybrainsandbooks]

If you’re reverse dieting and the scale goes down, what does that indicate? And why should you keep adding calories? Bc that’s currently happening to me!

[ryanb]

Weighing yourself is like the diet 101 😂

[maxinereed]

Should I be losing inches on a reverse diet? I like it, but should that happen?

[jzephir]

Just seeing this is normal. But I started a reverse diet and I would was maintaining no more than 3-5 lbs of weight gain but I wasn’t to worried because I looked leaner so I knew it was muscle. after 2600-2650 cals I seems to gain weight and look puffy and gained an inches back so an additional 5 pounds. During that gain I was maintaining roughly 2750 for a month. What do you think could be going on ? Btw I have PCOS😅 (extra credit lol)

[margaretrangel]

Any tips for extreme hunger? I’m 5’4 112-115lbs and have been eating about 1, 800-2, 000 calories a day and high protein.