Can Meal Timing Assist Weight Loss? | Late Eating vs Appetite vs Early Eating vs Satiety

What if we eat the same amount of food, but earlier in the day? Can eating the same amount of food earlier help weight loss? The answer may well be yes according to 2 recent random controlled trials. The first study compared loading a given number of calories more towards the first half of the day with loading the same number of calories more towards the second half of the day. There was no difference in daily energy expenditure, resting metabolic rate or weight loss. However. The participants eating more in the first half of the day reported significantly lower hunger. This is important because lower hunger usually leads to better compliance with any diet and therefore a much greater chance of continuing with the diet, adjusting the calorie total down and moving into a weight loss strategy.

The second trial also compared eating the same number of calories shifted towards either earlier or later in the day. They got very similar results. They found that eating LATER increases waketime hunger and decreases blood levels of the satiety hormone leptin. They also found eating later causes a particular gene expression that favours fat storage, reduced 24-hour core body temperature and decreased waketime energy expenditure. Interesting results and are completely in line with our own experience.

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