Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning
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#2This is strictly anecdotal, and I would honestly love to see this subjected to a rigorous study, but I lost twenty pounds without additional exercise or dietary changes in the last six months just by having a sleep study done, getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, and being put on a CPAP machine.
How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep?
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#3This is strictly anecdotal, and I would honestly love to see this subjected to a rigorous study, but I lost twenty pounds without additional exercise or dietary changes in the last six months just by having a sleep study done, getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, and being put on a CPAP machine. How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep…
> How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep?
There's some body chemistry where being sleep deprived can manifest itself as hunger. I forget the details, but I read about it in "Why We Sleep"[0].
When I had a sleep study done, the pre-study questionnaire seemed to have more about depression symptoms than about sleep itself.
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#4This is strictly anecdotal, and I would honestly love to see this subjected to a rigorous study, but I lost twenty pounds without additional exercise or dietary changes in the last six months just by having a sleep study done, getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, and being put on a CPAP machine. How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep…
So did you stop eating as much, or having fewer cravings or anything like that?
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#5I tried IF for a while. I lost a couple pounds and then plateaued. What I realized is that the main thing it was doing was preventing me from snacking at night. I didn't really eat any more than normal during the eating period, I just didn't eat my usual outside of it. So exactly in line with the study. It just didn't do much for me weight-loss-wise.
I was already skipping breakfast most days, so waiting until lunch to eat wasn't a big deal. But Stopping at 8pm was tough. I'm usually up until 1-2am, so not eating for the last five or six hours of my day was tough.
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#6This is strictly anecdotal, and I would honestly love to see this subjected to a rigorous study, but I lost twenty pounds without additional exercise or dietary changes in the last six months just by having a sleep study done, getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, and being put on a CPAP machine. How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep…
> How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep? There's some body chemistry where being sleep deprived can manifest itself as hunger. I forget the details, but I read about it in "Why We Sleep"[0]. When I had a sleep study done, the pre-study questionnaire seemed to have more about depression symptoms than about sleep itself. [0] https://…
Definitely experienced that in finals period in college where I consciously substituted sleep with calories
Re: Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning
#7This is strictly anecdotal, and I would honestly love to see this subjected to a rigorous study, but I lost twenty pounds without additional exercise or dietary changes in the last six months just by having a sleep study done, getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, and being put on a CPAP machine. How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep…
Are you sure your diet did not change? Even your portions stayed the same size?
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#8This is strictly anecdotal, and I would honestly love to see this subjected to a rigorous study, but I lost twenty pounds without additional exercise or dietary changes in the last six months just by having a sleep study done, getting diagnosed with sleep apnea, and being put on a CPAP machine. How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep…
Cannot comment on depression. But from personal experience and after reading Why we sleep, my understanding is that to get maximum benefits from diet and exercise, a good sleep is a prerequisite. This is paramount when you're doing these things for losing weight. I don't see good sleep being recommend enough whenever people embark on a weight-loss journey.
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#9I eat one big meal per day, sometimes fasting once or two times a month and I definitely have a lower appetite with slim body aesthetics. I didn't crave food once my body adjusted to one daily meal for the timeframe of about a month passing. Realistically I don't do much activity and I assume a bodybuilder wouldn't be able to do one meal per day.
I hypothesize the weight of a person, factors from "the mealtime" to the "time of sleep" and for storage of calories compared to used calories.
Similar, I hypothesize the timeframe from meal to meal factors into the storage of calories compared to used calories.
Furthermore, I hypothesize the individual metabolism of the person factors from the development years by the childhood to adulthood corresponding to the active lifestyle of the individual.
Lastly, I hypothesize the individual metabolism of the person factors from the composition of the gut bacteria. (Fasting could help reset the gut bacteria to a healthy state)
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#10As long-term large-scale observational data, consider that the "Mediterranean diet" is widely touted as especially healthy. People in Mediterranean countries tend to eat late dinners, like the control group in this study.
No concrete conclusion here, just a general warning about believing in monocausal silver bullets, I guess.