Welcome to the tailored life podcast, the one and only fitness and nutrition

podcast that goes way beyond just training and nutrition and helps you create a life

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I'm your host Cody McBroom, and today we got a solo episode.

This is a quick hitter, and we are going to dive into

diet breaks. So I'm going to try to pack as much information as I possibly can in less than 10

minutes for you about diet breaks, what they are, why they're useful, and how you can implement

them into your own fat loss journey. Real quick before we get into the episode, if you are a

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Now, the topic of diet breaks is an interesting one because it's something we've covered many, many times. It's something that's been studied heavily over the last

shit, five to ten years. I'm trying to think of when the first diet break study really came out.

And I honestly couldn't tell you. It's been a while. But nonetheless, as the research

industry around fitness, as the research, I shouldn't say industry, as the evidence-based community

within fitness and nutrition has grown, there has been more money spent and more time spent

on researching refeeds and diet breaks over and over and over again. And what once was a magical

week of increasing calories and seeing all these things happening that we couldn't explain,

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