Ep. 284 - Why Fasting Gets Harder at Night | Morning Eating Windows Reduce Hunger | Meal Timing for Fasting Success | Breaking Late Night Eating While Fasting | Front-Load Calories to Control Cravings | New Fasting Persona Quiz!

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This episode reveals groundbreaking research from the Journal of Cell Metabolism showing that when you eat matters as much as what you eat for hunger control and fasting success. Dr. Scott and Tommy break down a study demonstrating that consuming 45% of daily calories at breakfast versus dinner dramatically reduces hunger and appetite without changing metabolism or weight loss. Learn why your physiology works against you when eating large evening meals, making it harder to close your eating window and stick to fasts. If you struggle with late-night cravings, can't seem to end your eating window, or find yourself breaking fasts in the evening, this episode provides the meal timing strategy to align your eating with your body's natural circadian rhythm for easier, more sustainable fasting. ⁠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, please tap 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://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(22)00344-8

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Wadier.
0:03.0	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
0:30.1	we have learned along the way.
0:42.3	Hey everyone, welcome with the Fascinating for Life podcast. My name is Dr. Scott Water, and I'm here, as always, I'm a good friend and colleague, Tommy Welling.
0:45.3	Good afternoon to you, sir.
0:47.3	Hey, Scott, how are you?
0:49.3	Doing fantastic, my friend, excited for today's conversation.
0:51.3	We're going to be getting into an article from the Journal of cell metabolism and it is named timing of daily calorie loading affects appetite
0:59.4	and hunger responses without changes in energy metabolism in healthy subjects with obesity so it is a
1:06.7	clinical and translational report it's 32 pages and there is lots of golden nuggets in
1:11.7	there that we are going to share with you today in how to adopt a fasting lifestyle to help
1:17.2	you achieve all of your weight loss and health goals by using fasting as the tool to get you there.
1:24.3	Excited as we're going to dive in. If you are new to the podcast, we want to welcome you in.
1:28.7	Thanks for giving us a shot. Thanks for listening. However you found us, we're glad you're here.
1:33.3	If you want to know more about why we do this weekend and week out, why we have our challenges
1:37.1	and coaching and resources on the website, ultimately the why behind fasting for life, head back to
1:42.8	episode zero, episode one.
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