Knowing how to get lean is important. Knowing how to stay lean is more challenging.

When you already live lean, there will be times when you look or feel different and believe you need to push the deficit harder. You may feel watery, less defined or uncertain about what your body is doing. But getting leaner is not always the answer. What your body may actually need is a refeed.

In this Beyond the Basics lesson, I discuss learning your body, monitoring your patterns and recognizing the difference between needing to continue the deficit and needing to refeed.

Staying lean requires more than knowing how to diet. It requires knowing when to stop pushing.