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You Got Lean Before Vacation. Now How Do You Keep It? | ETP#231
Friday, 6 November, 2026
You spent months dieting to get really lean before a long holiday, you are about to eat pretty much whatever you want for a week or two, and you want to know how to hold onto the leanness you just worked so hard for. The question gives us two options to weigh: diet right up until the day before you leave, or ease back to maintenance for a couple of weeks first, both with the goal of not undoing your progress the second you get there.The bigger you are, the more muscle you carry, and the longer you have lived lean, the more you can get away with. Bryan is a good example of that. His approach is to hold the deficit right up until the last minute, eat big on the trip, keep moving every single day, and compress his food into a smaller window so he cannot dig the hole too deep, and he comes back no worse off. That works because it is a system he has gamed for himself over years, not a free for all. For most people the better bet is to diet right up against the vacation and send yourself in as depleted as you can, so those first couple of days are your body replenishing glycogen instead of storing fat. The catch is that the harder you diet going in, the more food focused you get, so there is a real chance you overeat more than you otherwise would have.Then what actually happens when you get home, and a lot of it comes down to your priorities. We talk about giving it a full week back at baseline before you judge anything, because the scale right after a trip is mostly water and sodium and your bowels being off, and a five or six pound jump usually settles to about three pounds of real change. From there it opens up into the smell the roses phase after a hard diet, learning to actually live at a leaner body fat, how family and age change what you are willing to say no to, and why the environment you are in quietly pulls you up or down. Call it what it is: those deviations either cost you something you actually care about or they do not, and that is the whole decision.Covered in this episodeThe two options: diet right up to the trip, or ease back to maintenance firstWhy the leaner and bigger you are, the more you can get away withBryan's system: hold the deficit late, keep moving, and compress the eating windowWhy sending yourself in depleted turns the first days into glycogen replenishmentThe downside of dieting hard going in: food focus climbs fastThe more moderate approach if you just got lean for the first time and are afraid to lose itWhy how lean you truly are decides which approach even appliesThe NASCAR analogy for whether you will really hold back on vacationWhy the bloat still costs you some of the look while you are actually thereThe case for dieting right up until the day before, and betting against yourselfComing home: a full week at baseline before you change anythingReading the scale delta, and how much of it is realThe client who came back 14 pounds up, more than onceThe smell the roses phase, and learning to live at a new body fatHow family, age, and your environment shape what you are willing to give upTimestamps00:00:00 - Intro: how long to keep the diet going before a holiday00:01:39 - Bryan's approach: hold the deficit until the last minute00:04:06 - The unfair reality of who gets away with it00:07:13 - You will put on some fat, how much is the real question00:08:22 - Why you want to go in as depleted as possible00:10:16 - The downside: dieting harder cranks up food focus00:11:33 - The more moderate approach, and why leanness decides it00:13:06 - The NASCAR analogy for vacation eating00:14:42 - Why the bloat still wrecks the look during the trip00:15:38 - The case for dieting right up until the day before00:17:37 - Coming home: a week at baseline before you judge anything00:19:31 - The client who came back 14 pounds up00:23:15 - The smell the roses phase, and learning to live leaner00:25:51 - Body fat, family, and your actual priorities Training hard, but don't look like it? Aaron closes that gap ⬇️https://coach.strakernutritionco.com/bioParagon Training Methods Programming ⬇️https://paragontrainingmethods.comFollow Bryan's Evolved Training Systems Programming ⬇️https://evolvedtrainingsystems.comFind Us on Social Media ⬇️IG | @Eat.Train.ProsperIG | @bryanboorsteinIG | @aaron_strakerYT | EAT TRAIN PROSPER PODCAST
