Dr. Oz’s Best Time of Day to Lose Weight Timetable

Does reality actually exist before 8:00am? I've never tested this out, but it seems scary

I believe that requires a cup of coffee.. I know my brain cells lack sufficient function....and its always needed when I get up at 5am...

I can do all but the early morning exercise-I just cannot wake up enough to do it. I do exercise at lunch or after work.*sigh*

I work rotating 12hr shifts , so I have great trouble sticking to a set schedule like that one.

But I do get the principle of it

^^^^^ This xx very interesting though xx

Saturday? Unless you work 7 days/week or need to go shopping every day...

I shop every day. How else will I get the freshest fish, meats, bread and produce?

While in theory, this is a brilliant schedule, not everyone works during the day and therefore being up at 6am just isn't in the cards. I used to work nights and I would go to bed at 9am, get up and shower/breakfast/workout all by 2pm, go to my 1st job by 3:30pm, get off that at 10pm, and go work the graveyard at my 2nd job by 11pm and get off at 7am the next day. I really don't miss those days, but there are plenty of people out there that have a schedule this busy or worse! My heart goes out to them!

Another thought for everyone - regardless of opinions on Dr. Oz (I think he's neither quack nor genius, and see him give some helpful information to people, but whatever) - there are definitely ideas that working out FIRST THING (...check out BODY FOR LIFE If you didn't already do that plan back in the 90s, for instance...) is a major metabolic booster - and the rare time's I've managed it, I have found that it's about as good as coffee for upping my energy early on. AND I have read some reports of new studies (just in fitness mags and stuff, but credible) that show that exercising at YOUR most alert and energetic time of day (for me, either late morning or late afternoon) is best with regard to coordination and calorie burn. This, however, is a different benefit, than the "stoke the fires" one of doing it first thing. I am categorically weaker in my earlier morning workouts than in later in the day ones, I know that much (I never workout immediately upon rising, but often 9:30ish after getting some work done, since I work from home).

The Oz plan does leave gaps of more than 4 hours for food and one assumes there would be snacks implied, but whatever.

So, very plainly, you could consider, say, steppign up and down on a step or getting on an exercise cycle for like 15 or 20 minutes immediately upon waking, zombie through as best you could, and almost definitely recognize a benefit all day, but you would probably NOT want to replace your full workout with this, and yeah, you might want to be doing that workout at a "stronger" time, when you'll be able to work your hardest.

It seems to me that the early schedule would be for those that work the day shift, and just adjust it to your schedule. If you work nights, then weigh at the beginning of your work day, and so forth.

This schedule is doable for me, except for exercising 1st thing in the morning. I already get up early just to eat breakfast, can't get motivated to get up even earlier just to exercise. Oh well. I do what I can.

The best time of day to lose weight is toilet time.

hahahaha!

Grocery Shop on Saturday or your day off at 10 AM. I think the point was that if you have to grocery shop or weigh in or exercise that those times of the day are more benefical to you....

There was another thread, which I didn't bookmark, about a study which suggested benefits to exercising before breakfast. The time frame was a bit short, but its still interesting.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/phys-ed-the-benefits-of-exercising-before-breakfast/