Overweight people who eat during a much smaller window of time each day than is typical, report fewer hunger swings and burn slightly more fat at certain times during the night, according to a new study. The science behind this theory is not to reduce your food but to eat most of your calories early in the day and no calories in the late afternoon and evening. Why you might ask. Your body burns most of your calories during the hours you are the most active.
Most of us slow-down after work and that's when we tend to consume most of our calories. Not good because your body only burns a few calories in the evening. And those other calories are stored in fat cells. Example, If your body burns 1200 calories a day, then say, 900 calories are burned in the morning and early afternoon and only 100 are burned after that. The average worker consumes most of their calories after work when the body is resting.
I personally understand the reasoning and I do believe that if you want to lose weight, you have to eat most of your calories early in the day. Breakfast and lunch should be 80% of your total daily calorie intake. This will also reduce your urge to snack. Eat breakfast before work and then lunch around noon or 1 pm and you won't be hungry in the afternoon. Eat something small at night like half your normal portion at your evening meal. When your body is use to this new meal schedule and you stick to fresh food your waist will begin to shrink. And the bonus is that as you lose weight you gain energy which will burn even more calories. This way of eating is a new way of life, not a diet that you can quit after you lose the weight.
The assistant professor of nutrition sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham thinks the idea is worth examining as a potential weight-loss approach and hopes to conduct a larger study.
The approach is called early time-restricted feeding. It's been tested in animals, where researchers have found that it reduced fat mass and the risk of chronic disease.
Body mass index is a rough measure of a person's body fat based on height and weight. A BMI of 30 is considered obese. Someone who is 5 feet 9 inches tall would need to weigh 203 pounds to have a BMI of 30.
All of the study participants tried each approach -- the early restricted-eating and the typical pattern. During one four-day period, participants ate between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. only; during another four-day period they ate between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The participants ate the same number of calories during each approach and they ate only the food given to them by the researchers and under supervision.
Researchers then tested the impact of the longer fast time on calories burned, fat burned and appetite. The restricted eating time didn't change the total number of calories burned, she said.
Personally, I do think there's merit to the theory. One very big problem that overweight people have is night-time eating. Snacking at night and eating that big meal at 6 pm or later and then not being active enough after dinner will cause weight gain and most of that is simply bad habits.
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