Daily Eating Patterns for Total Health Study

All conditions will receive a reduced-energy, low-fat dietary prescription (1200-1500 kcal/d, \< 30% energy from fat), physical activity goals (\> 200 min/wk of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity \[MVPA\]) and a cognitive behavioral intervention. To minimize the effect of other eating temporal variables on outcomes, guidance on the eating window length and the number of eating occasions in the day will be consistent across all three conditions. Thus, the three conditions will be instructed to have their first eating occasion \< 60 minutes of awakening, and eat their three meals and one snack within a 12-hr eating window.

Morning will also have time-based energy intake goals of 70% of kcal within the first 6 hrs of the eating window and 30% of kcal within the last 6 hrs of the eating window (a morning-loaded energy distribution).

Evening will also have time-based energy intake goals of 30% of kcal within the first 6 hrs of the eating window and 70% of kcal within the last 6 hrs of the eating window (an evening-loaded energy distribution).