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Diet break / refeed
Also known as
diet break · refeed · diet break week · high carb refeed · maintenance week in a cut
Community talk. May contain inaccuracies. Not medical, training, or diet advice. Sharp pain, fainting, or disordered-eating concerns need a clinician.
In brief
A diet break is planned maintenance time inside a cut; a refeed is a shorter high-carbohydrate bump.
The common picture
Planned, not accidentalIt’s on the calendar.
Refeed vs breakHours/days vs a week-plus.
Not reverse dietThat’s the exit.
Cut rooms calendar a weekend or one to two weeks up, keep protein, then return to the deficit. Reverse diet is the exit, not this card.
Good to know. A break that never ends. Disordered eating. Reverse diet is the neighbor card after the cut.
What people say
- The job: keep the cut going without living in a hole.
- r/loseit and cut rooms still argue weekend refeeds.
How it may feel
- The scale jumps; they panic; the thread says water.
How people do it
- They pick a date, raise calories, keep lifting.
Amounts people use
- A weekend or 1–2 weeks is the copied talk.
How people keep it
- A return date.
How long
- Inside a cut, not as a lifestyle.
The longer notes
- Reverse diet is after. Mini-cut is the short deficit cousin.
Good to know
- Using ‘refeed’ as a binge name.