The chronodiet , or the idea of ​​taking advantage of time to lose weight, by eating at certain times, is a theory, more than a real slimming regime, but it finds many admirers. Eating at certain times of the day promotes some hormones and others not. For example, eating in the morning within half an hour of waking up would stimulate the thyroid. Even intermittent fasting, a technique for losing weight by burning more energy, is to be considered a kind of chronodiet.
As you know, doing intermittent fasting certainly does not mean fasting full stop, that is not to eat, but to alternate the moments of the meal with those in which not to eat anymore, to give the body time for a digestion break and program it towards better biological rhythms: doing this naturally allows you to lose more weight, because food programming / fasting resets the metabolism, making us burn more. I have always found this theory very fascinating, but those who have practiced intermittent fasting for years (usually many sportsmen) swear that this is the case: the body reacts to the new rhythms with a faster metabolism and we tend to lose fat mass, as they take shape. muscles more easily. The point is to be able to do it. In one article, I explained five different types of intermittent fasting: I generally can’t go without food for sixteen hours, or alternate days of fasting with days when I eat, or eat only once a day (that’s what a very thin friend of mine does).