Your Guide to Intermittent Fasting
You may opt for one fad diet or another — paleo, keto, alkaline (Tom Brady’s) or carb cycling — but none of them takes into account an essential truth about your body: It uses calories, fat, carbs and glucose differently at different times of the day.
Studies show that eating the same amount of calories early or later in the day produces two very different results.
Frontload your food intake so you get 80 percent of your calories before 1 or 2 p.m., and you can lose weight. Eat more than 20 percent of your calories in the evening, and you’ll have trouble losing weight and may even pack it on. That’s because timing is everything — in music, love and nutrition.
Your body is made to consume food while the sun is shining and to not consume food while it’s dark. That aligns with the healthy choice of having at least 12 hours between dinner and breakfast.