What to Expect

If you join the study, you will follow an intermittent fasting diet for 6 months. This means that for 3 days each week, you will eat about 500 calories a day. On the other four, you will eat a healthy diet, but you won’t need to count calories. You will go to group meetings to help with weight loss (these are 60 to 90 minutes long) and exercise sessions (45 to 60 minutes long). You can do them in person at the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center or online. The weight loss meetings will happen every week for the first 3 months, then once a month for the next 3 months. Exercise sessions will happen every week and will include aerobic, resistance, and flexibility exercises. The group meetings and exercise sessions will take place for 6 months. You will slowly increase how much physical activity you are doing. During the study, we will check your weight and body fat. We will also take a small blood sample. You will keep a food diary and wear a device that tracks your activity for 7 days. You will fill out surveys about your health, what you eat, and what you think about the program. We will do these checks at the start of the study, and again at 3 months and 6 months.

Study Duration

You will be in the study for 6 months after it starts.