Hi everyone this is Monica Reinagle the nutrition diva here with your quick and dirty

tips for eating well and feeling fabulous.

So wouldn't it be cool if you could lose weight and improve your body composition

without changing what or even how much you eat?

A fascinating new study suggests that the trick might be in the timing.

But before I get into the details, I do want to stress that the study was done with mice, not humans.

Nevertheless, the results are so striking that it might be

worth doing a little experimenting with your own meal timing.

And now let's talk about how meal timing affects weight loss.

There's a popular myth that if you eat close to bedtime, the calories will simply be stored as fat.

As I've explained in previous episodes,

that's not exactly true.

However, at least one study has shown

that people who eat the bulk of their calories

in the first half of the day

lose weight more quickly than those who eat most of their

calories in the second half of the day even when they eat the same amount of

calories. Unfortunately, this isn't the way our bodies are programmed.

Researchers found that our appetite tends to be the strongest in the evening and the weakest in the morning,

which is the exact opposite of how we're told to behave.

The new study I mentioned sheds some light on this paradox and offers a potential solution.

Researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, previously found that mice that were only allowed

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