Avoiding a continuous diet may be the key to losing weight and keeping the pounds off, according to the latest research from the University of Tasmania. In the findings, the researchers showed that taking a two-week break from dieting can improve weight loss.
During the study, two groups of participants took part in a 16-day diet that reduced calorie intake by a third. One group maintained the diet continuously for 16 weeks, while the other group maintained the diet for two weeks and then broke the diet for two weeks, eating normally to keep their weight stable and repeating this cycle for 30 weeks to diet for 16 weeks. to assure. Those in the interrupted diet group not only lost more weight, but also gained less weight after the trial. This group maintained an average weight loss of 8 kg more than the continuous diet group, six months after the end of the diet.
