Mounting evidence suggests that intermittent fasting is an effective, powerful weight-loss tool, but you don't have to go to extremes to see results.
A 2015 study published in the journal Cell Metabolism noted that "participants were not overtly asked to change nutrition quality or quantity" — in other words, they ate what they usually would — but only to tighten the window of time in which they ate. When eating for 10 hours a day, as opposed to 15, participants lost weight and slept better.
Try only eating from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., or from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (You can still have coffee or water outside of those hours.) Doesn't seem so crazy, right? Avoid late-night snacking and the pounds will fall off.
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