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Time-Restricted Eating as a Potential Strategy to Promote Weight Loss Maintenance in Patients With Obesity
Sponsor: Universidad de Granada
Summary
While body weight reduction can be achieved through various interventions in people living with obesity, most patients regain a substantial proportion of the lost weight within the following months. There is a lack of effective interventions to prevent this regain, making weight regain one of the most pressing challenges in obesity management. The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether adhering to time-restricted eating (TRE; a form of intermittent fasting) during and after a dietary weight loss intervention, promotes weight maintenance to a greater extent than consuming all daily meals within 12 hours or more. Additionally, the study will address other questions, such as whether TRE improves body composition, insulin sensitivity, and cardiometabolic risk factors; whether the TRE intervention produces effects on different components of energy balance or related behaviors; and whether prior exposure to the TRE intervention influences eating window duration and weight change over the subsequent 24 months. The study will compare participants who concentrate all their food intake within 8 hours or less with those who consume all their daily meals within 12 hours or more. All participants will follow a calorie-restricted diet designed to induce an 8-10% weight loss over 12-16 weeks and will be followed for several months after the weight loss intervention.
Official title: Time-Restricted Eating as a Potential Strategy to Promote Weight Loss Maintenance in Patients With Obesity (REGANE)
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 70 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
212
Start Date
2025-12-18
Completion Date
2030-06
Last Updated
2026-01-07
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Calorie restriction (Dietary intervention)
Calorie restriction intervention consisting on a meal plan designed to induce an 8-10% weight loss over a 12-16 week period.
Regular eating window
Receiving instructions to maintain their regular eating window (12h/d or more) both during the 12-16 weeks of calorie restriction and the 12 months following its completion.
Time-restricted eating
Receiving instructions to confine all daily meals to a period of 8 hours or less (at least 6 days a week) both during the 12-16 weeks of calorie restriction and the 12 months following its completion.
Locations (1)
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada.
Granada, Granada, Spain