Research has established that diets that rely on a limited amount of time to eat, such as the 8-hour diet or the fast diet, would make weight loss easier than any other diet, and in particular, lose fat.

According to the research, coordinated by Dr. Panda and edited by the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, the mice that followed an intermittent fast, that is, they fasted for most of the hours and ate in the rest, they had higher percentages of lean mass, lower cholesterol. and a faster metabolism than those who had continuous access to food. The mice in the first group lost weight while eating a fatter diet than those that could eat all day .

The study benefits intermittent fasting diets, such as the Fast diet and David Zinczenko’s 8-hour diet.
In particular, the 8-hour diet is designed to feed in a healthy and balanced way within an eight-hour interval, which would lead to excluding breakfast and focusing on lunch and dinner. Or to skip dinner.
Let’s see the latter in detail.

The 8-hour diet: when it works and how

One wonders: if the 8-hour diet is effective, why do people who skip breakfast tend to get fat?
Since studies have so far focused on mice, it is conceivable that things work differently for humans. On mice, fed a nine-, ten-, twelve-, or fifteen-hour interval, greater weight loss was seen in the first two cases regardless of the type of food they ate.

In fact, a feature of the 8-hour diet and other types of intermittent fasting diets is that you have to control when you eat but not how much or what you eat. From this point of view, the 8-hour diet is designed specifically for those who do not have the time or desire to reduce portions or exclude food.
However, the mice in the study never skipped breakfast.
All the mice were fed as soon as they woke up, so breakfast was a must in the experiment.
This is very important, because it also clarifies how to do the 8-hour diet for weight loss: if you eat starting with breakfast, you will have to skip dinner.

The 8-hour diet: how to do it

Doing the 8 hour diet is very simple. We have seen that it would be better not to skip breakfast as the study suggests. And, counting eight hours of time window from the moment you start the first meal, let’s say at seven in the morning, to the moment you finish the last, it goes without saying that this means having a breakfast and a lunch complete with all nutrients, and then indulge in a last snack in the early afternoon. From then on, only broth, herbal teas and other zero-calorie drinks. According to the proponents of the eight-hour diet, it would be enough to make this effort to lose at least 4 kilos a month, leaving out of the rule only Saturdays and Sundays.
Other schemes to lose weight faster with intermittent fasting can be found here .