This was my conscious weight loss strategy. Stop eating at 7-8pm in the evening and hold off eating <i>any</i> food until noon or so, which gets a 16+ hour fast. I ate whatever I wanted (not crazy, but not spartan) and lost about 70g per day over a long period (110kg -&gt; 95kg). This was in conjunction with exercising but I was exercising before without losing much weight. Not a very original idea but I was amazed at how easy it was (relative to 5:2, which gave me two workdays a week of &#x27;thinking about food way too much&#x27;).