I have personally been experimenting with my eating times lately and I have found that even if I eat a big breakfast full of fiber and protein, I’m still just as hungry in the evening than if I didn’t. I actually think I’m less hungry. So why do so many health experts and other people say it’ll lead to binging at night? I guess we are all wired differently. But if I’m eating 3 meals a day plus snacks in between, I’m definitely going to be going over my calorie limit. But if I stick to just lunch and dinner, it’s much easier to eat under my limit. Anyone else feel this way?
Yeah, I don’t know. I’m the same as you. If I eat breakfast in the morning it just makes me hungry all day - I’ll eat 3 meals and be looking for snacks. But if I skip breakfast and just wait until lunch then I feel like I don’t need any snacks. I eat lunch and I eat dinner and I’m fine for the day.
Trust what you experience, what your body tells you, and how you feel. The “experts” all have an agenda and are pretty much wrong about everything.Eating less often is about the best thing you can do for your health. I haven’t eaten breakfast or lunch for years and it’s a fantastic lifestyle that I’ll never give up.
A lot of the people who are preaching the whole “if you don’t eat enough during the day you’ll binge at night” are people who are in eating disorder recovery and they say that because they want to believe there’s a good reason they are binging at night but binging is due to emotional disregulation, not hunger. I agree that if I fast during the day, I am not going to be binging at night. I have less of an appetite and being keto also helps with appetite and satiety
Yeah once I start, it’s difficult to stop. The real problem is I LOVE breakfast. It’s my favorite meal. I have been successful with keeping my calories low and eating breakfast but I have to eat 5 tiny meals a day and it’s a lot of obsessing about food that isn’t healthy for my ED loving brain
I think partly it depends on what you’re eating, how much you’re eating, and which specific hours you’re eating at. But all else being equal, researchers have lately been finding mounting evidence that if you move your eating window earlier in the day, you feel at least as satiated as, if not more satiated than, you do when eating across a later window. The best research on this, to my mind, has been done by Courtney Peterson of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In a pair of studies, she got excellent results from feeding people in a 6-hour window from roughly 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., with improvements to a range of biomarkers. This seems to be because our circadian rhythms have hardwired us to process nutrients more efficiently in the morning and in the early afternoon than at night. Of note, the 18-hour overnight fast produced a few more ketones, which suppressed the hunger hormones, so her volunteers didn’t feel hungry in the evening. For more, you might see this article: https://medium.com/lifeomic/late-dinners-make-you-sicker-a-case-for-breakfast-and-early-time-restricted-feeding-8e2e0955fa44.