The 8 Hour Diet Explained

benflando

This diet has worked great for me and can be easily followed with a little discipline.

The "diet" part of this eating strategy is eating for only 8 hours of the day. Which is pretty easy by pushing your breakfast back a little and eating a early dinner as your last meal. You can choose any hours of the day you want to eat, i.e. 1-9, 12-8, 8-4, whichever you choose.

Your calories can remain the same and the same amount of food can be consumed.

This diet can break plateaus and cause dramatic weight loss for people.

The first few days are the most difficult, but around the 4th day your body becomes accustomed to it.

You actually decrease your appetite naturally.

You can consume anything non-caloric when not eating.

PurpleTina

Interesting, but you forgot the 'explanation' bit. Given that I stick to my calorie goals, why would eating the same foods, but only at a certain time of day make any difference? Just curious.

benflando

Your body will have to spend less time breaking down food all day and use more fat as energy.

benflando

Your body will have to spend less time breaking down food all day and use more fat as energy.

Camille0502

pseudo-science

iulia_maddie

As long as you eat at a calorie deficit, eating only during an 8 hour window a day is unnecessary for weightloss.

TylerJ76

As long as you eat at a calorie deficit, eating only during an 8 hour window a day is unnecessary for weightloss.

This.

Barbellerella

thats quite a strategic banana.

Greenrun99

Your calories can remain the same and the same amount of food can be consumed.

This diet can break plateaus and cause dramatic weight loss for people.

How do you break plateaus and drastically lose weight eating the same amount of food? Its all about in and out your body doesn't know time..

pastryari

thats quite a strategic banana.

Lmao. I love you, Amanda.


Also, this:

As long as you eat at a calorie deficit, eating only during an 8 hour window a day is unnecessary for weightloss.

Admiral_Derp

pastryari

You can consume anything non-caloric when not eating.

Sooo, water?

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

I'm giving up on humanity.

Who came up with this tripe?

SpeSHul_SnoflEHk

You can consume anything non-caloric when not eating.

They call that Pica, and it's in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

ladyraven68

This diet has worked great for me and can be easily followed with a little discipline.

The "diet" part of this eating strategy is eating for only 8 hours of the day. Which is pretty easy by pushing your breakfast back a little and eating a early dinner as your last meal. You can choose any hours of the day you want to eat, i.e. 1-9, 12-8, 8-4, whichever you choose.

Your calories can remain the same and the same amount of food can be consumed.

This diet can break plateaus and cause dramatic weight loss for people.

The first few days are the most difficult, but around the 4th day your body becomes accustomed to it.

You actually decrease your appetite naturally.

You can consume anything non-caloric when not eating.

What you are describing is Intermittent Fasting. There are many people on here that follo it.

but the "diet" part of it, is eating at a defict. If you ate at TDEE as you are recommending above, you would not lose weight.

have a look at www.leangains.com

iulia_maddie

You can consume anything non-caloric when not eating.

Sooo, water?

Or maybe OP has a list of all that negative calorie stuff?

DavPul

thats quite a strategic banana.

He's not failing for the old banana in the tailpipe trick

iulia_maddie

Double post.

csuhar

I just always figured the main thing this diet had going of it is that, for most of us, we're only going get so hungry during the 8 hours we've allowed ourselves to eat if we follow the diet. In the 10-ish hours I'm at work, I'm never starving and I'm often eating small items throughout my day, but I still come in at only about 2/3 of my calories.

Don't get me wrong- I'm sure this diet works. It's just that, instead of any truly revolutionary thought, the main thing seems to be that it has imposed time restrictions that help because, outside that time window, the individual is saying "No. I can't eat ANYTHING at this time" which can help the willpower necessary to stay under their calorie goal.

TylerJ76

If I ate for 8 hours a day I would be 700lbs!!!