Time Restricted Eating

Time Restricted Eating (TRE) is a type of intermittent fasting in which a regular diet is taken, but with a fast period of ~15 hours. This type of diet was likely natural to primitive humans, when food was not regularly available.

Scientific trials have shown great health benefits such as a marked increase in stamina/endurance (run time until exhaustion in mice on a TRE diet was 144 minutes in one study; nearly twice that (78 mins) of mice that could eat whenever they wanted), lower inflammation, lower risk of diabetes, improved heart health, increased HGH levels, improved brain function and better recovery from workouts.

This TRE app is extremely simple to use. The front screen shows your rolling performance over the last 7 days in both chart and table formats, the pink bars where your time between your first and last meal was greater than your target hours, and green when less than your target. Studies of TRE showed that you can actually have up to 2 'cheat' days per week without any loss of health benefit; the chart also shows your average 5 day performance.

Recording the times you started and finished eating is simple - dial up the day, and select the time and hit the 'add log' button.

You can also customise the amount of time that you are consuming food - users new to the app should try for 12 hours first and then see if they can get down to 9. You can change this under 'settings' app on iOS. Show More