We refer to eating window as the time between your first and last meal of the day. It's the period during which you consume your daily calories 🍽️. Note black tea, coffee and water do not break your fast.

For example, if you have breakfast at 8 am and finish dinner by 6 pm, your eating window would be 10 hours. ⏰

Doing time-restricted eating means that you eat during certain hours of the day and fast — or don’t eat — the rest of the time. For most people, this way of eating means extending the natural fast that happens when they sleep 😴.

With time-restricted eating, you can pick which eating window best suits you and your lifestyle, and it doesn’t involve changing how much or which foods you eat. Instead, you eat your regular meals during a set window of time.

Is this the same as Intermittent Fasting?

While the concept of an eating window is related to intermittent fasting, they're not exactly the same thing. Intermittent fasting (IF) is a dietary approach that involves cycling between periods of eating and fasting. There are various IF methods, and most of them focus on having a specific eating window followed by a fasting window ⏰. However, many of these methods also introduce calorie restrictions which we do not.