Counting calories are pretty boring. How much easier would our lives be if we would have to make no more worrying about fat and Co. and we would instead only focus on when we eat. This idea was also the US-fitness expert David Zinczenko interesting and has the 8-hour diet developed.
The 8-hour diet in practice
Eat eight hours per day, the remaining 16 hours one practices in abstinence. This sounds at first quite easy. Quite as much is eight hours but not when playing through the 8-hour diet and physically to one day. So should you eat in the period of 9 bis 17 clock clock. Or from 12 bis 20 clock clock, if you are a morning person and a late dinner prefers breakfast. Before and after that anything containing calories should come from the lips. This includes the coffee with milk, glass of juice or tea with sugar. Up to 12 clock noon really nothing to eat, is pretty hard. Just as from 17 clock to fast.
After all: Supposedly may be eaten at the 8-hour diet everything your heart desires. The pounds are still tumble – even if one considers only three days a week at this FastPlan. In a postscript adds David Zinczenko, who is also editor in chief of the American – Men’s Health -, but added that sweets and white flour products are not all that great. Because they drive the blood sugar levels in the air and lead to cravings. Instead, one should make use of its eight Power-food groups. These include eggs and lean meat, dairy products, nuts, legumes, blue and purple fruits as well as fruits and vegetables red, yellow / orange and green colors.
If it goes to Zinczenko, the first meal should be eaten as late as possible to burn as much fat. Moreover, the metabolism is to be brought at least eight minutes of exercise and a cold shower after getting going.
The theory behind the 8-hour diet
That you can not then eat everything, when you want, nothing is new. Even the popular diet concept – Slim in her sleep – recommends eating breaks of at least five hours and advises the evening of carbohydrates from. Due to the long period of fasting of 16 hours burn fat is to be encouraged so really loud Zinczenko. In addition, the cholesterol levels are to be reduced and the blood levels improve.
What is so great sounds in theory, in practice unfortunately often not so convincing. This is also true for the 8-hour diet. Nutritionists as the former head of the Center for Nutritional Medicine and Prevention at the Hospital of the Brothers of Charity, Dr. John Wechsler, are not a fan of this new form of fasting. 16 hours not eating does nothing for your metabolism. First of all, if you uninhibited feasting in the eight hours and calorie and fat foods enjoys in abundance.
Much better than the 8-hour diet – and even without counting calories – is a long-term change in diet. Here, all foods are allowed, however, high-calorie foods with plenty of sugar and fat such as sweets, fast food and salty snacks only rarely and in small quantities. Whole grains, vegetables, fruit and low-fat dairy products on the other hand may be eaten several times a day without a bad conscience.