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Originally Posted by dougz
I'm surprised Lyle advocates "crash" diets..
Slow and steady wins the race, you would think the gurus would say..
But there's OPT from Leigh, Afterburn from Cosgrove, GSD from Berarardi..
So maybe I should look at more drastic measures after my 2 week break.
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I think that there is a big distinction between a well planned but large deficit, and a crash diet. Most ordinary people who go on a crash diet don't have a plan; they don't lift and they don't refeed. And when their crash diet is done they go back to the same behaviors that got them fat in the first place.
But just because they have no plan and gain all the weight back doesn't mean that we can't get the benefits of faster weight loss. Is this your only goal? Or is it your plan to go into some other phase of your overall fitness goals; i.e. a strength or hypertrophy phase? I know that my fatloss goal is just a part of my overall plan for fitness. In other words, we know what we want to do after we lose the weight and its not to sit on our butts eating oreos.