🆕 study shows that 'front loading' calories early in the day does not help with weight loss but it did help dieters from feeling hungry.
The old saying 'breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper' is wrong, at least in terms of weight control, according to a new study, published in, from the University of Aberdeen. The idea that 'front-loading' calories early in the day might help dieting attempts was based on the belief that consuming the bulk of daily calories in the morning optimises weight loss by burning calories more efficiently and quickly.
Each diet was eaten for 4 weeks, with a controlled baseline diet in which calories were balanced throughout the day provided for 1 week at the outset and during a 1-week washout period between the two intervention diets. Each person's calorie intake was fixed, referenced to their individual measured resting metabolic rate, to assess the effect on weight loss and energy expenditure of meal timing under isoenergetic intake.
Prof Johnstone said: "Participants were provided with all their meals for 8 weeks and their energy expenditure and body composition monitored for changes, using gold standard techniques at the Rowett Institute. The same number of calories was consumed by volunteers at different times of the day, with energy expenditure measures using analysis of urine.
"We know that appetite control is important to achieve weight loss, and our study suggests that those consuming the most calories in the morning felt less hungry, in contrast to when they consumed more calories in the evening period. It's possible that shift workers could have different metabolic responses, due to the disruption of their circadian rhythms, the team said. Prof Johnstone noted that this type of experiment could also be applied to the study of intermittent fasting , to help determine the best time of day for people to consume their calories.
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