"8-Hour Diet" Plan?

I'm on my fourth day of the 8 hour diet and it really isn't that hard to do. I don't think it is a fad either. It's just controlling the timeframe in which you eat. I will let you know if it seems to help. I exercise regularly and try to eat as healthy as I can. Figured I'd give it a try just to see if it makes a difference. The book promotes healthy eating.

I do 18/6.... Not because I read it somehwere, it's just what works for me. I did read about it after I'd worked this out on my own before ever hearing about it.

"Breakfast" to me is at about 3 hours after waking - about 300-500 cals. My next meal is 5-6 hours later, about 1000-1200 cals. Then I go to bed about five hours after that. Only litte deviation is my 150 calorie coffee right after I get up...so I guess that makes it more like 15/9ish.

I've been maintaining on this pretty effortlessly. Of course, there are days I go off-plan - but for the most part this is my style.

So glad that a couple of the people commenting have at least read the book. The science behind the eight hour diet is extremely interesting and it is a cumulative analysis of several years of research and other fasting plans. When you read about the science behind how our stomachs, liver and digestive systems actually work and relate it to how we as a society eat it makes so much sense why we have become obese. He probably should not have called it a diet because it is not in any way what we expect a diet to be, in fact, he says in the beginning that this will go against everything we have ever learned about diets.
I started it on Monday. I am eating 11am-7pm everyday, trying to get my 8 super foods in and haven't done much with the 8 minutes of exercise. I eat what I want. I have lost 1 pound as of this morning and began my period this morning, which this should have been a weight gain and bloating week! Tuesday morning I experienced a significant reduction of bloating. I wish that I had measured before starting because as of today I am wearing jeans I haven't been able to button in 6 months and a bra with the same problem. Even though the scale is not dropping huge amounts (or maybe it will) the inches and significant lessening of bloating that I carry in my stomach area is incredible. I love not "dieting" I am still eating "normally" and trying to get the 8 super foods in as well. I just don't eat after 7 and only have some water and my coffee before 11. I feel good and I am not having the afternoon sleepys and my evening indigestion has subsided. I also have more energy.
This is easy. I really recommend you read the book if you can, check it out at the library or it is cheaper if you put it on your kindle. I am excited to see what the next few weeks bring.

I eat from 11 am - 6 pm and it works if you have problems with binging. I don't understand the people laughing and saying it's not a "quick fix" all it does is change your eating schedule, you still eat the same amount of calories.

This. Choosing to IF is no different than choosing to eat 5 meals a day with 3 strategically placed snacks in between them to "stoke the metabolism" (lulz.) It's not a magical diet method, it's just an eating schedule. Some people prefer it, because we like eating larger portions of food. I'd much rather eat 1 1500 calorie meal, rather than a bunch of 300 calorie "snacks." Plus I work in retail, I don't have the kind of schedule that allows me to stop and eat every hour, on the hour.

There are also a lot of people who put on weight due to mindless grazing all day, setting a hard time window of when they can eat helps break that habit, making calorie control easier.

Bottom line, it's all personal preference, and really, the only thing that's a joke in this thread is the actual book in question, as there is plenty of very good, very scientifically sound information available for free on the internet, like leangains.com. Martin does an excellent job of explaining things. Also, agreed that IF may not be beneficial to women, but there really isn't anywhere near enough information out there to really make a firm conclusion yet.

I wish I had read this before googling intermittent fasting and trying to figure out what on earth people were talking about!! That being said, I'm gonna give this a shot. I usually work til 7, so always fail at the no eating after 7 (eat dinner after I get home), but have never thought to up my breakfast, either. I usually eat right when I get up. And I'd rather a large calorie meal myself than the 300 calorie ones, I never feel full!! Am interested to see how this works out since I am a woman, LOL! Maybe I'll follow yours, but do it 12-7 or 1-8? Although I usually start feeling dizzy/faint if I get too hungry...... guess I could drink a lot of water or try something small until I get used to it.

I also don't understand what 20/4, 16/8..... is is just fasting 20 hours/eating 4? (Sorry, this is really the first I've heard of fasting that didn't involve two to three days- and wasn't members in a church)

I do 20/4 and I love it. It's not a "fad diet", in fact it's not a "diet" at all, it's simply an eating schedule. After a week or two, your ghrelin stops spiking throughout the day so you stop being hungry. I just eat dinner and that's it. I'm never hungry before dinner anymore.

What else do you eat during those 4 hours if you are just eating dinner?

I'm thinking I might try just lunch and dinner.

I love it.

This is a just simply intermittent fasting.

Leangains is just another 'program' that comes from the basics of intermittent fasting which is NOT a fad, but has been around for ages. People just like to present the information with different titles and call them diets. haha.

There are many health and weight loss benefits to intermittent fasting. If you're interested in information on the health benefits there's a great youtube webinar by Dr. Michael Lara. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZWOXhoFpo) It's not a fad, but proven effective. Since beginning intermittent fasting, my body composition has changed for the better. It works for me, and fits my lifestyle.

You might take a look at my amazon.com ebook, The 4-Hour Diet is better than The 8-Hour Diet. It shows and analyzes daily weight variation over a 2-year case study that demonstrates an exponential decay of excess body fat, even if you pig-out during the 4-hour unrestricted eating interval.

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It's Intermittent Fasting that somone changed the title of, put it in a book, and is now selling it for money.

I personaly follow Leangains, which has been around for quite some time. As said many times throughout, it isn't a "diet", just an eating schedule. Biggest, leanest and strongest I've been to date on it as it helps with recovery.

The leangains plan of eating is very effective, provided your training is done at a very high intensity. If you don't train at very high intensity, you'll probably see more harm than good by following the plan.

It is not a quick fix. It actually takes a fairly long time to see significant results from doing it. Its purpose is to provide people who find the idea of bulking and then cutting too much of a hassle for body recomposition (muscle gain + fat loss) and are willing to wait forever and a day to see results.

I follow the lean gains approach and eat in a 6-8 hour window always fasting for 16 hours.

This plus lifting heavy 3 times a week ive seen the inches fly off the weight go down but only fat loss and no muscle loss maybe even some gains as im stronger and leaner.

i eat all my calories in that feeding window took me a few days to get into it but in my opinion this is my new lifestyle i couldnt go back to the 'normal' way of eating 3 meals a day and eating 6 meals spaced evenly throughout the day isn't practical.

This method works for me and is routine so i stick to it i don't diet s that causes people to give up.

I haven't heard of it but it has that dreadful word in the title. lol So I would stay away. :-)

I would recommend reading Leangains.com to ANYONE who wants to look awesome, whether they intend to follow intermittent fasting or not. Martin Berkhan has put together one hell of a website about how the body responds to food and to different types of training. It is information that you need to know, regardless of what kind of nutrition plan you are following, and the best part is that it's entirely free. You don't need a book written by some guy who is just trying to make money off Berkhan's work.

I think IF works best for people who are already fairly lean and are trying to get leaner. And it is not a diet; it is most definitely a lifestyle. My favorite thing about it is that I get to eat big meals every day. If I spread my calories over 3+ meals a day, I just find myself eating small meals and never feeling satisfied. If I save most of them for the end of my feeding window, I get to eat a big, satisfying dinner AND dessert, stay under my calorie limit for the day, and go to bed feeling great.

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Just when I think Rodale can't sink any lower (and I subscribe and enjoy several of their magazines) you see a line like:

Eat what they like and shift the aging process into reverse.....and
Sharpen their minds and cut their risk of Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases..

my BS detector goes on red alert..........