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I get a lot of questions about what to do if you miss a workout. Sometimes workouts get skipped because you’re sick. Or because you’re traveling. Or for some other reason, like your dog ate the remote or you just ran out of time! If you miss a day (or two, or three), just get back at it as if nothing has happened, starting with the workout you skipped. Miss much longer and you’ve got a decision to make. You can either start the program over from scratch, or ramp yourself back to the place you were when you stopped. Ultimately, when you get back to your program, what you do is really about what will keep you motivated. That said, doing the full program as scheduled is the best way to make sure you get full benefit from it. If you just miss a few days, it’s fine to resume where you left off, but if it’s been weeks, you’ve probably lost most of your gains fitness-wise, so it’s worth starting from scratch in order to get the most possible gains and to avoid injury. But if

At first, the suggestion that you can eat more to lose weight sounds like  Bizarro World  logic, but when you play it through, it actually makes a lot of sense. I’m not suggesting that you make a standing reservation at the all-you-can-eat buffet in order to burn off the pounds. Rather, I’m proposing  periodic caloric increases  while maintaining a healthy deficit in order to better fuel your workouts and manage the stress of a challenging exercise regimen. While using fancy words certainly adds an air of legitimacy to my proposal, there’s also a lot of science behind it, so let’s take a deeper dive. What Happens When You Under-eat and Increase Exercise There’s more to our energy system than calories in/calories out. Among other things, we are designed to survive prolonged famine. On the other hand, we weren’t designed to handle prolonged abundance, which is why the absurd wealth of high-calorie, cheap junk food available now plays such a large role in skyrocketing obesity r