The Metabolism Fix
10 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Crash diets slow your metabolism by destroying muscle. Fix it with three things: eat enough protein, lift weights, and sleep well. This combination rebuilds muscle and restores your metabolic rate.

Crash diets slow your metabolism by destroying muscle. Fix it with three things: eat enough protein, lift weights, and sleep well. This combination rebuilds muscle and restores your metabolic rate.
I've wrecked my metabolism with a crash diet. How do I fix it? Okay, here's the good news. Our bodies are super resilient, even with some of the crazy things that we do. And yes, those obsessive crash diets where you try to lose a lot of weight fast, they can damage your metabolism because you lose muscle and gain back fat. So how do you fix it? You fix it with a muscle-first approach. That means eating protein first to get enough protein on board to supply the essential amino acids and that you need in order to build muscle. But the biggest thing is, guess what? You need to challenge those muscles. So you need to do resistance training as well. So those two things, plus some great sleep and recovery, and you will be able to heal that metabolism.