After a caloric deficit, our TDEE will drop as a survival response to food scarcity. To ensure we don’t put the weight back on, we need to do a Reverse Diet, to increase our metabolism & TDEE. A Reverse Diet is a 4 week – 10 week period where we slowly increase our food intake by 100 calories / day every week. In 10 weeks, we can increase our caloric intake by 1000 calories / day, and not go up in weight or if we do, very little. A higher metabolism & TDEE at our desired weight = we can eat more and not put on fat weight = a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.