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A Diet for People Who Can’t Stick to a Diet

The very thought of dieting brings shivers down some people’ spines. They’ve been so accustomed to their horrendous junk food diet that it seems like an impossible task to change it.

And you’d think they were right since dieting includes an enormous list of things to do like counting daily calories, lowering carb intake, avoiding white wheat, reducing fat intake, drinking lemon juice in the morning, writing in a nutrition diary about everything you’ve eaten that day, eating more vegetables, drinking a lot of water, slowly chewing your food, taking fat burner supplements, eating lots of bacon if you’re on a Keto diet (come to think of it, that’s not that bad), trying all sorts of natural weight-loss foods, sometimes even eating raw foods and the list goes on and on. And it’s true it does take a lot of dedication and discipline to make it work.

But the purpose of this article isn’t to discourage you. We are trying to present a diet plan that would enable you to stick to it in the long-term eventually becoming your lifestyle. You would think it would be extremely helpful if someone had already invented a weight-loss diet plan for those who cannot commit to a diet.

It would also stand to reason that that plan would be based on solid scientific evidence, affirming its credibility. And lastly, it would be really extremely helpful to the ones not prone to dietary changes if that diet gave you a respite during the weekend.

Well, it seems we have just the thing for you. In this article we are going to present to you the study made by Dr. Satchidananda Panda from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Dr. Panda and his fellow researchers are exploring the molecular mechanism behind our biological clocks. In their laboratory they use genomic, genetic and biochemical approach to identify the genes which fall under circadian rhythm regulation in various organs in our body and to delve into what goes on behind that regulation.

His studies have been specifically concerned with how a diet restricted by prolonged time intervals results in significant loss of weight and can aid in the prevention of metabolic diseases.

The mechanism behind it

In one of his studies Dr. Panda has done mice, he had them on a time-restricted diet where they had their food intake restricted within an eight-hour window (basically a 16/8 hours intermittent fasting protocol). The results were that the mice were protected against hyperinsulinemia, obesity, hepatis steatosis, various organ inflammations and had their motor coordination increased, despite consuming the same amount of calories in comparison to the control group of mice that were allowed to consume their food whenever they preferred throughout the day.

We can draw a very interesting conclusion here. That actually means that you can eat the same amount of calories you’ve been eating before, but in this case you would consume those calories within an eight-hour eating window. This will help you prevent insulin and leptin resistance, type II diabetes, fight obesity, improve liver health, decrease inflammation levels and improve physical coordination. And that’s not everything.

In another one of his studies Dr. Panda also observed at how this type of time-restricted eating within eight-hour feeding windows would relate to mice that were already obese. The researchers found out that even when the subjects weren’t restricted in their daily calories, ingesting those calories within a nine or ten-hour eating period can decrease their obesity, slow down and totally reverse the development of type II diabetes, decrease cholesterol levels and increase liver function.

Keep in mind; even though the mice were allowed to eat anything they wanted on the weekends and eat high-carb and high-fat foods during the entire week, they still had the aforementioned benefits.

What are the implications for you?

It simply means that if you restrict food intake to an eight or nine-hour window from Monday to Friday, you can be more liberal with your old food choices, lose a significant amount of body fat, improve liver function, decrease cholesterol levels, prevent the development of type II diabetes and most important eat pizza, drink liquor and eat burritos during the weekend.

We suggest you give this diet a go for two months and see if it works for you. We are pretty sure you’ll be pleasantly surprised.


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