meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Fasting For Life

Ep. 52 - Why doesn't 16:8 Intermittent Fasting work for weight loss? | Intermittent Fasting for Beginners | Ketogenic Diet + Intermittent Fasting Time Restricted Eating | OMAD One Meal a Day Free Intermittent Fasting Plan

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Get your FREE BOX OF LMNT hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase here! In this episode, Dr. Scott and Tommy discuss the 16:8 intermittent fasting schedule, a very common starting point for many people. In their experience, 16:8 is an easy way to become more comfortable with fasting, as it usually just involves skipping breakfast, but if fat loss is the goal, 16:8 may not move the needle very far, which can be confusing. They get into the reasons this happens and how to fix it, starting today.   Have a question you'd like us to answer? Click here to send it to us or leave us a voicemail we can play on the show!   Show Transcript: www.thefastingforlife.com/blog   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 really makes a difference in helping to bring you the best original content each week. We also just enjoy reading them!   Sign up for the Fasting For Life newsletter at www.thefastingforlife.com   Follow Fasting For Life: www.facebook.com/thefastingforlife www.instagram.com/thefastingforlife

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Watier.

0:03.4

And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the fasting for life podcast.

0:07.1

This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health,

0:11.9

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 from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design.

0:25.0

We started fasting for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools that we have learned along the way. Hey everyone welcome to the fasting for life podcast my name is Dr Scott Wadier I am here as always with my good friend and colleague Tommy Welling good afternoon to you sir

0:48.8

Hey Scott how are you? We are fantastic sir. I answered for you. 168 intermittent fasting. What is it? Why does it work? Why sometimes does it not work? Where what's our perspective? It is probably the most searched and questioned time eating window phrase, terminology combined with intermittent what is it?

1:12.0

Something we actually don't talk all that much about.

1:15.0

I think we've done maybe one other episode on intermittent fasting, but I cannot wait to dive

1:20.7

into the conversation

1:23.1

and the perspective on what it is we're really not accomplishing.

1:28.8

Yeah, I like the perspective on it

1:32.2

because we get the question a lot and they're usually similar questions and even when I tell people hey, you know, we're we talk about fasting on the

1:44.1

podcast and they say oh well I've tried some I've done a little bit of that

1:47.8

I've done a little bit of intermittent fasting before and it's usually

1:51.1

16-8 and I think that that's just kind of the natural starting point for for a lot of people it seems like.

1:58.0

Yeah, the Google Machine will tell you that you know that's typically and sometimes it'll define it all the way up to doing one maybe

2:04.0

two 24-hour fast week. So Interment fasting is a pattern that cycles between

2:10.0

periods of food and no food, periods of fasting and eating, periods of feeding and, you know,

2:15.2

whatever, time restricted, whatever you want to call it, but it's times where you actually

2:19.7

are going to be consuming food in a certain amount of time and then time when you are not

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scott Watier, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Scott Watier and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.