An 8 hour eating window is frankly enormous, a full-time job’s worth of eating each day. I’m a long term intermittent faster in her 4th year maintaining a 40 lb weight loss. For me, an 8-hour window represents a spectacularly indulgent day. It seems so weird to me that it’s represented as the IF standard, along with the (100% no duh) conclusion that it doesn’t work for most people.

That said, I’m an n=1 faster. I never assume that just because I’ve found what works for me that it’s a magic bullet for anyone else.