Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast.

My name is Chris Terrell and welcome to the first episode of Maintenance Mondays.

This podcast, Maintenance Mondays, is going to be designed for those of you that are approaching

or who are in the maintenance phase of weight loss.

I wanted to create a resource that provides information for those of us that are

continuing the journey.

Because when you slide into maintenance, when you get there there you probably have had the same realization that

I did which is that you've just found the bottom of another mountain on the other side you know the

peak of one mountain is the base of the next one it seems and you realize that your journey is

far from over and I don't know if there's quite enough information out there for those

of us that are in that phase. And I'm in it myself. You know, I've been maintaining now for a year

and it's been great. But, you know, I've learned a lot since I've been maintaining. And I can see how

it is, it's its own battle. Very much so. It's its own battle. And I've run into that with other people that I've

work with as clients. I've even taken on a few who are approaching or who are in maintenance

to guide through that process. So what I wanted to talk about today in Maintenance Mondays is the

concept of reverse dieting. This is what I did. When I hit my

target weight, I knew that I wasn't going to keep eating at a caloric deficit. All right, that was the

plan. But I didn't just immediately the next day just start adding food back in. I was very careful

like, okay, let's be methodical about this. I've been researching

reverse dieting for now about a year and I felt like I'd really wrap my head around it. I had

practiced with multiple maintenance breaks transitioning into maintenance and out of maintenance.

And so I was like, I need to be methodical about it though. I wasn wasn't tracking when I hit my goal weight because I could pretty much intuitively eat at a deficit

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