Ep. 273 - Why Breakfast Beats Dinner for Weight Loss | New Research on Meal Timing | Front-Loading Calories for Better Results | Circadian Biology & Insulin Sensitivity | Rethinking Your OMAD Schedule | Join the Fasting Challenge

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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***JOIN THE NEXT MASTER YOUR FASTING CHALLENGE THAT STARTS March 19th, 2025!*** We'll GUIDE you how to FAST to LOSE FAT for good, and use 'fast cycling' to achieve uncommon results! REGISTER HERE! Click the Link for DATES, DETAILS, and FAQs! In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Scott Watier and Tommy Welling explore research that challenges conventional eating patterns, revealing how shifting calories to earlier in the day can dramatically improve weight loss results. The hosts break down a study showing women who consumed their largest meal at breakfast rather than dinner lost 2.5 times more weight while experiencing significantly better insulin sensitivity, reduced hunger, and improved triglyceride levels. They explain how our bodies process the same calories differently throughout the day due to circadian biology, which explains why evening-heavy eating patterns often lead to frustrating weight loss plateaus despite caloric restriction. This episode offers practical strategies for adapting your fasting schedule to leverage these biological advantages, including alternatives to the popular but less effective dinner-focused OMAD approach, providing listeners with actionable ways to improve their fasting results without increasing hunger or complication. Take the NEW FASTING PERSONA QUIZ! - The Key to Unlocking Sustainable Weight Loss With Fasting! Resources and Downloads: SIGN UP FOR THE DROP OF THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BLOOD SUGAR CONTROL GRAB THE OPTIMAL RANGES FOR LAB WORK HERE! - NEW RESOURCE! - December 2024 FREE RESOURCE - DOWNLOAD THE NEW BLUEPRINT TO FASTING FOR FAT LOSS! SLEEP GUIDE DIRECT DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD THE FASTING TRANSFORMATION JOURNAL HERE! Partner Links: Get your FREE BOX OF LMNT hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase here! Get 30% off a Keto-Mojo blood glucose and ketone monitor (discount shown at checkout)! Click here! Our Community: Let’s continue the conversation. Click the link below to JOIN the Fasting For Life Community, a group of like-minded, new, and experienced fasters! The first two rules of fasting need not apply! If you enjoy the podcast, would you please tap on the stars below and consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it helps bring you the best original content each week. We also enjoy reading them! Article Links: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/oby.20460

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Wadier.
0:03.2	And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the Fasting for Life podcast.
0:07.0	This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health, achieve ultimate wellness, and live the life you truly deserve.
0:15.0	Each episode is a short conversation on a single topic with immediate actionable steps.
0:20.0	We cover everything
0:21.2	from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design. We started fasting
0:25.9	for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools that we
0:30.2	have learned along the way.
0:43.4	Hey everyone, welcome to the Fasting for Life podcast. My name is Dr. Scott Waterier, and I'm here,
0:47.7	as always, I'm a good friend and colleague Tommy Welling. Good afternoon to you, sir. Hey, Scott,
0:58.0	how are you? Fantastic, my friend, excited for today's conversation. We have talked about this directly and indirectly in the past, but it's going to be a great convo about a high caloric intake at breakfast versus dinner
1:05.0	differentially influences weight loss of overweight and obese women. This is a completely female study.
1:15.1	We're going to extrapolate some fasting nuance to it, talk about fasting schedules, eating earlier
1:21.6	in the day, things that we have changed our tune on over the years. So excited to unpack this. Incredible results. Just like,
1:30.1	wait a minute, did I just read that right? Right. This is about 70% of our challengers, 80 to 9% of our
1:39.0	coaching, 60 to 7% of our listeners on the podcast are women that are wanting to lose weight.
1:45.0	So we are excited to dive into this and go over this article with y'all and give you some action steps to continue to adopt a fasting lifestyle.
1:56.0	And it's just amazes me, Tommy, that this is from the Journal of Obesity in 2013. And it's like, how have we not
2:03.1	seen this? Like, so, I mean, if you guys ever have any articles that you want us to go through,
2:07.9	please info at thefastingforlife.com. Let us know what you want us to talk about. We're happy to do
2:13.8	it. So welcome in if you are new. Head back to episode one. If you want to learn more
2:19.1	a little bit more about Tommy and I, our journey with fasting, how it transformed our lives.
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