#216 - Reverse Dieting: The Missing Half of Every Diet

You lost the weight. Then, within a year, it came back. I hear this story constantly, and the diet itself usually wasn't the problem. The problem is that the diet ended. One day you're tracking everything, the next day you're on your own with a slower metabolism and zero plan.

In this episode I walk you through the reverse diet, the half of the process almost nobody teaches. This is step 4 of my RESTORE Method, and it's the step that decides whether your results last.

In this episode:
- Why regain after a diet is a process failure, never a willpower failure
- What a reverse diet actually is: calories climbing week by week while weight holds
- How metabolic adaptation reverses, so you eat more than you have in years
- Why the industry sells the weight loss but never the exit ramp
- How we run reverses at OCS: small weekly increases, mostly carbs, heavy mindset coaching
- Why I reverse clients into summer maintenance before vacation season hits

Real client example: Kristine messaged me when we started her reverse: "I'm scared of going back. I trust you 100% but I don't trust myself completely yet." Four weeks in, calories are up from 1,365 to 1,900, weight is stable, and her waist measurement was down. Read about her reverse diet here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaM2yoAlVqg/

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