To be successful with a diet, you not only need to know when to make diet adjustments but when to take diet breaks also. They help break up the monotony of a diet and make adherence easier. When you have a lot of fat to lose, it can be very tough to stay motivated for months on end. This is not about mental toughness nor commitment. Planning for diet breaks is about acknowledging in advance that there are limits to our ability to persevere. More about this here: Bulk vs Cut? However, as bulking phases always involve a little fat gain, you will need to diet after to bring your fat mass down again.
More about this here: Bulk vs Cut? Your “diet” should of never started OP. Once your health goes you will find it vastly more difficullt to maintain weight and looks. They call it calorie cycling. Drastically making changes to your diet too quickly can hurt it. Why Weight Training? And lost 20lbs relatively easy. They recommend that even if you still have a few more pounds to lose till your goal weight by the end of the 12 weeks, you move into a maintenance period before pursuing to shed those last few pounds. Again, thanks a lot!
Often times when we start a new diet we cut a lot of calories quickly, leading to dramatic weight loss very early on. We get excited by the quick results and go off of our diet. Only to instantly gain back the weight. Not only do we gain back the weight but then we notice that our body can’t metabolize the food we were eating prior to the weight loss. We find ourselves struggling to keep our weight at what it was prior to the diet. Affirming the position that we have to diet forever if we want to lose weight and keep it off. This is where nutrition periodization comes in. This keeps your metabolism high and able to adjust and maintain to your new weight. We probably all know that calories in versus calories out is the basic foundation needed for any diet. If you burn more than you consume, you will lose weight eventually.