Reverse dieting - Some VERY important info

actually reverse dieting is a common thing here.

Anyone who has lost enough weight and realizes that they need to lose at a slower pace does a reverse diet by lowering their weekly weight loss goal which adds calories..

And the closer they get to maintenance the suggestion is always start adding in 50-100 calories a day each week until you hit maitenance calories.

I read the first article

The idea is to slowly reintroduce extra calories (usually in the form of carbs and some fats) so that you can help your metabolism recover from low-calorie dieting, and start to build some muscle. When you diet, your metabolic rate and the hormones that govern your metabolism drop right down, so suddenly adding in calories too quickly can cause you to store a lot of excess body fat — not something you want when you worked so hard to get lean.

not sure if this article pertains to the vast majority that are here as they are not dieting to get lean and ripped they are dieting to lose weight. Even for those of us who lift we don't subscribe to low calorie diets and our metabolism isn't screwed up. Then you have those here who do compete in shows (bodybuiling shows) and even they have a handle on what they are doing and know the difference between low calories diets and a good cut for a show and I doubt very much they have issues with the reverse diets. But that being said doing your first bulk would pertain I can't imagine purposfully eating over maintenance to gain...eek. That to me would be a mind scramble....

http://www.fitnessrxwomen.com/nutrition/healthy-eating-tips/reverse-dieting/
This article actually references starvation mode so it's out the window now I wont even read past the below quote

What is Reverse Dieting?

The concept of Reverse Dieting is based on research that suggests metabolic damage or a slow down in metabolism can result after a prolonged calorie restrictive diet and that re-introducing a greater amount of calories back into the diet can lead to substantial fat re-gain. This fat re-gain is thought to occur because the body is in ‘starvation’ mode, and instead of burning off those extra calories, it stores them in anticipation of not getting food again.

I read the others ones but eh here is a better one. (Thanks Sidesteel)

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/another-look-at-metabolic-damage.html#more-9313

mainly the articles you mentioned are about people who are doing VLCD for extended periods of time or have eating disorders who have adaptive thermogenesis, in which case yah this would be good for them.

edited for spelling.

There's a lot of people struggling here to lose weight and when I click on their diaries they're not eating enough and haven't done so for a while, there lies the problem. Not with all but a lot. That's why I posted it.

actually a lot of the time if you look closely at their diary they don't weigh their solids and measure liquids...they guess...and typically are eating more than they think...

Bump for all of us starting out with maintenance!