DWM The weight loss technique seems counter-intuitive, but does work. Taking a two-week break from dieting can boost weight loss be 50 percent, recent research finds. Stopping the diet for a couple of weeks also helps people maintain their weight loss in the long-term, the study found. Taking a break works because the body gets used to a diet and starts to slow the rate at which it burns calories. The break, though, brings the metabolism back up to normal speed. When dieting resumes, weight loss is boosted.

The weight loss technique seems counter-intuitive, but does work.

Taking a two-week break from dieting can boost weight loss be 50 percent, recent research finds.

Stopping the diet for a couple of weeks also helps people maintain their weight loss in the long-term, the study found.

Taking a break works because the body gets used to a diet and starts to slow the rate at which it burns calories.

The break, though, brings the metabolism back up to normal speed.

When dieting resumes, weight loss is boosted.