Change When You Eat to Lose More Weight
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It's not always about WHAT you eat, but WHEN!
Timing of meals is just as important as the calories eaten! I tell clients this day in and day out but below is some good ol' fashioned PROOF:
Studies performed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and published in the International Journal of Obesity reveal that the timing of meals eaten has just as much influence on weight loss as what is eaten.
In an article published at Natural News:
Study author Dr. Frank Sheer noted, "This is the first large-scale prospective study to demonstrate that the timing of meals predicts weight-loss effectiveness."
In the study, 420 overweight participants followed a 20-week weight loss treatment program. The participants were divided into two groups; one group, which ate their largest meal before 3 p.m. and another group which ate their largest meal after 3 p.m.
To keep the study fair, both groups had similar calorie intake and expenditure, both had similar appetite hormones (ghrelin and leptin), and both groups had similar sleep patterns.
Interestingly the study revealed that:
- Late-eaters lost far less weight than early eaters
- Late-eaters had lower insulin sensitivity
- Late-eaters who lost the least amount of weight consumed fewer calories during breakfast or often skipped breakfast completely.
...All in all, this study definitely highlights once again the importance in consuming a high-protein breakfast in order to help ignite the metabolism and stimulate weight loss.
This study also insists that American’s start to reconsider our typical late-night eating style, and particularly for weight loss – attempt to adapt a more Mediterranean style of eating, consuming around 40% of our daily calories earlier in the day!
*Here's a fun little picture to help keep this in mind: :)
*Here's a fun little picture to help keep this in mind: :)
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