DGS49
Diamond Member
It has been suggested that human evolution includes a very long period when our forbears lived a lifestyle characterized by intermittent starvation, particularly in winter. Once they had started eating meat, they were able to inhabit lands where vegetation alone would not support their lives, but eating meat often meant going a few days with essentially nothing to eat, followed by a "kill," and stuffing themselves with meat and fat.
Accordingly, some say that the human body benefits by times when nothing is eaten and digestive process is able to make it to conclusion without introducing more food.
With this in mind, some are promoting a half-fast diet (my term), having two main characteristics: First, all eating should be inside an 8-hour "window" every day. If you eat your first meal at 0800, then nothing after 1600 (4pm). Second, the first food of every day must be at least 16 hours after the last food of the previous day.
The only "diet" aspect of this plan is that you NOT gorge yourself in the first meal - which is the temptation. Also, don't force yourself to eat three meals a day. Just eat a first meal, a snack of some kind in the middle (hopefully a healthy one), then a normal last meal of the day. For me - I'm retired - the eating schedule that works best is first meal at around 11, then finish eating by 7pm.
I have been doing this for three weeks, weighing myself only once a week, and it looks like I'm losing two pounds per week. With very little effort.
In social situations or where you are forced to eat early or late, you adjust the "window" as necessary. For example, we went out for dinner last night and finished eating around 8:30, so I can't eat anything until 1230 today. I won't eat anything after 7 this evening, to get back on my normal schedule.
I've spend my adult life seeking out "diets" that were painless but successful, and this seems to be one of them.
Accordingly, some say that the human body benefits by times when nothing is eaten and digestive process is able to make it to conclusion without introducing more food.
With this in mind, some are promoting a half-fast diet (my term), having two main characteristics: First, all eating should be inside an 8-hour "window" every day. If you eat your first meal at 0800, then nothing after 1600 (4pm). Second, the first food of every day must be at least 16 hours after the last food of the previous day.
The only "diet" aspect of this plan is that you NOT gorge yourself in the first meal - which is the temptation. Also, don't force yourself to eat three meals a day. Just eat a first meal, a snack of some kind in the middle (hopefully a healthy one), then a normal last meal of the day. For me - I'm retired - the eating schedule that works best is first meal at around 11, then finish eating by 7pm.
I have been doing this for three weeks, weighing myself only once a week, and it looks like I'm losing two pounds per week. With very little effort.
In social situations or where you are forced to eat early or late, you adjust the "window" as necessary. For example, we went out for dinner last night and finished eating around 8:30, so I can't eat anything until 1230 today. I won't eat anything after 7 this evening, to get back on my normal schedule.
I've spend my adult life seeking out "diets" that were painless but successful, and this seems to be one of them.