What’s the Best Time to Exercise for Weight Loss?
Dr Michael Mosley has given the very best time to exercise after eating for weight loss. The health expert, who regularly gives advice on TV programmes such as This Morning and on his BBC podcast, says you should eat all your meals within a 12 hour period. The doctorlisted the small changes which can have a “profound effect on your health.” He suggested eating breakfast later and having dinner earlier.
Dr Mosley highlighted the benefits of doing this based on his book ‘Just One Thing’. BristolLive reported he said: “If you want to lose a bit of weight and improve your metabolic health, change your meal times. That means having breakfast a bit later and your evening meal a bit earlier. It’s also known as time-restricted eating and I would recommend you start by trying to eat all your meals within a 12-hour window.”
In one episode of his show, first aired in 2021, he lays out an eating plan by eating dinner at 7pm and only having black coffee or water for the rest of the night, up until 9.30am the next morning. Several studies have linked time-restrictive eating with weight loss. In 2021, a Nutrition & Diabetes study comprising of 30 males and females with obesity followed an eight-week time-restrictive eating program. Results showed weight loss of approximately 24 pounds on average, compared with about 20 pounds in the 30 people not following the program.
Excerpted from the Mirror
