Adherence

Intermittent diet breaks may reduce psychological disinhibition (loss of control over eating) compared to continuous energy restriction, although this comes at the cost of a longer total intervention duration.

If you struggle with losing control over your eating (disinhibition) while dieting, scheduled diet breaks might help you stay more in control psychologically than continuous dieting. However, this strategy requires 8 weeks to achieve what continuous dieting does in 6 weeks, so you must be willing to extend your total dieting time.