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This is our limited series AskNRD inside the Dr. Shannon show, where we ask registered

dietitians, some of your most pressing nutritional questions.

I'm Dr. Shannon.

Welcome to the show.

Welcome back, everyone.

I've got Hope Brand.

She is registered dietitian.

We're back for another AskinRD.

Today we are talking about reverse dieting, which I admittedly know nothing about.

So tell us what this is.

Okay.

Well, and it is a little bit more niche.

And a lot of these terms originally are coming from kind of like the bodybuilding community, like early

kind of bro culture. So, and a lot of them are moving like a little bit more mainstream now

and getting a little bit more nuanced and applicable to more individuals.

But it makes sense to like have not really or not have a lot of experience with this.

But reverse dieting is the concept of coming out of a period of being in a deficit very, very slowly.

So you're reversing your intake up to your maintenance point.

And the theory behind it is that it helps you maintain the physique progress or like the body composition progress that you've seen versus just jumping straight back to your

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