Scientists share simple seven-week strategy to lose nearly 8lbs trends now
Combining HIIT exercises with a strict 6pm dinner cut-off could help you lose twice as much weight, a study suggests.
Overweight and obese women who stuck to the strategy for seven weeks lost 3.6kg (7.9lbs) on average.
For comparison, volunteers only asked to adhere to a time-restricted diet, where all daily meals could only be consumed within a 10-hour window like 8am-6pm, lost 2.1kg (4.6lbs).
And participants who merely took part in the brutal exercises, which burns a sweat through burpees, squats and push-ups interspersed with intervals of rest, lost almost 1.7kg (3.7lbs).
Asked if the strategy worked, one of the Norwegian researchers behind he study unequivocally said 'yes'.
While participants in the Norwegian study could eat whatever they wanted and as much as they wanted, there was one catch. Their entire calorie intake had to take place within a ten-hour maximum time window
Hollywood A-listers like Jennifer Aniston and Mark Wahlberg (pictured above) have all jumped on the intermittent fasting trend since it shot to prominence in the early 2010s
It adds to the mountain of research praising the benefits of time restricted eating, or intermittent fasting.
Hollywood A-listers like Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman and Mark Wahlberg have all jumped on the trend since it shot to prominence in the early 2010s.
