Dr. Layne Norton

Like it's a great tool.

It's one of your only levers.

The levers you have are dietary restriction, like low carb, low fat, plant-based, whatever.

calorie tracking restriction, right?

Where you're tracking stuff or time restriction.

Those are your three levers you can really pull in terms of if you want to put things in the buckets, right?

And you can combine them if you want to, but, um, whatever gets you consistent, that is the, that is the biggest thing.

And so for some people, they love time restricted eating.

You know, I've had people say like, Hey, I eat an eight hour window, six hour window.

I don't feel hungry.

I'm good.

And so I think where people – the messaging can get confusing again is like people say, well, there's some evidence that early time restricted eating is better.

OK.

But what happens if somebody is like not being adherent to that because they get hungry at night and then they end up binging at night because they're – well, I already screwed up my feeding window.

Might as well just have whatever I want, right?

And so I think the messaging – it's important to understand why these things work, right?

And so we would both agree, OK, if there's a benefit, it's probably small.

And the biggest lever is making sure you're just being consistently controlling that calorie intake.

And so the benefit of time-restricted eating is for many people, they don't have to track and they'll limit their calories that way.

But I have met people who they use time-restricted eating as basically an excuse to binge eat during their feeding window.