Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition 2528: [Part 2] Is Eating Late at Night Bad for Weight Loss? by Christian Finn of Muscle Evo on Body Composition
Apr 15, 2024
Nutrition expert Christian Finn discusses how meal timing impacts weight loss differently, debunking common myths. Personal adherence to a diet is key over timing large or small meals. Finn encourages finding the best meal pattern for individual lifestyles.
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Satiety Drives Timing Effects
- Meal timing influenced weight loss mainly through hunger and satiety differences, not time-of-day metabolism effects.
- A large protein-rich breakfast raised satiety and helped adherence, driving greater weight loss in that trial.
Controlled Metabolic Ward Example
- The USDA metabolic ward study confined women to a controlled suite and supervised all meals and activity for 12 weeks.
- Researchers deliberately switched AM and PM calorie patterns to isolate meal-timing effects under strict supervision.
Timing Shows Little Fat-Loss Difference
- When strictly supervised, meal timing had little consistent effect on fat loss but did affect lean mass changes.
- The AM-heavy pattern showed slightly more muscle loss, while combined fat loss between patterns was nearly identical.