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Late night eating is what causes most people to gain weight. But here’s the kind of ironic thing about it. If you go to bed hungry, usually you won’t wake up hungry. If you eat a huge meal before you go to sleep, you’ll wake up starving. Your stomach stretches out and you’ll feel hungry if you eat a big meal before sleep the next morning.
If I go to bed hungry, it's hard to fall asleep, I wake up early and am hungry - my stomach is empty.
If I eat too much lunch, I'm not hungry at dinner time, but am hungry before bed time, and then it's too late to eat. If I eat before going to bed, I wake up not hungry and it throws off my eating cycle - i.e., I don't eat breakfast until I get hungry later in the morning.
I find what works best for me is to eat a light breakfast at 8 am, a light lunch at noon, and a full meal for dinner around 5-6 pm. I go to bed around 10 pm and get up around 6 am.
Wondering if anyone follows the suggestion of breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince--and dinner like a pauper?
Just saw Dr. Michael Greger post about a study that demonstrated we burn more calories eating this way--even if the foods eaten are the same caloric number and just the order of eating them is changed.
Sounds interesting...
I wonder if you get hungry if you eat a light dinner--like soup & a salad?
Love to hear your take on this and if you've tried this!
That's the way I eat. Always a big, nutritious breakfast around 9AM or so, then good size lunch at about 2PM (little later than most people eat their due to the size of breakfast), then light dinner at 6-7 PM.
NO snacks between meals other than piece of fruit, maybe a small biscuit with my 4 PM tea.
I still have the same weight I had in HS
and maintain European size 38 - their sizes are more stable (in the US it's a wild guess)
I think that no snacking in between meals is the most important part of keeping a healthy weight.
We have brunch at noon or 1:00 (no breakfast; we sleep late) then dinner at 9 pm, after ingesting an mj brownie at 8 pm. Timing is critical, lol.
Brunch is often fruit, nuts and yogurt. I do dinner prep (all from scratch, so it takes a while) at about 4 pm, then just reheat it when it's time, since we're well into TV and cocktails by then.
I'm kind of amazed that grown adults are still eating dry cereal for breakfast. And orange juice. Processed junk and sugar. We should know better by now.
Then again, alcohol has sugar. I guess we pick our poison, lol.
We have brunch at noon or 1:00 (no breakfast; we sleep late) then dinner at 9 pm, after ingesting an mj brownie at 8 pm. Timing is critical, lol.
Is MJ legalized in Ecuador, or do you have to operate on the down low?
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Brunch is often fruit, nuts and yogurt. I do dinner prep (all from scratch, so it takes a while) at about 4 pm, then just reheat it when it's time, since we're well into TV and cocktails by then.
I'm kind of amazed that grown adults are still eating dry cereal for breakfast. And orange juice. Processed junk and sugar. We should know better by now.
Then again, alcohol has sugar. I guess we pick our poison, lol.
Might want to rethink alcohol. Spirits and beer typically have zero sugar, and there’s only trace amounts in red wine. It’s the mixers that have the sugar, not the alcohol. Eliminate the mixers, and eliminate almost all of the sugar.
We have brunch at noon or 1:00 (no breakfast; we sleep late) then dinner at 9 pm, after ingesting an mj brownie at 8 pm. Timing is critical, lol.
Brunch is often fruit, nuts and yogurt. I do dinner prep (all from scratch, so it takes a while) at about 4 pm, then just reheat it when it's time, since we're well into TV and cocktails by then.
I'm kind of amazed that grown adults are still eating dry cereal for breakfast. And orange juice. Processed junk and sugar. We should know better by now.
Then again, alcohol has sugar. I guess we pick our poison, lol.
We have brunch at noon or 1:00 (no breakfast; we sleep late) then dinner at 9 pm, after ingesting an mj brownie at 8 pm. Timing is critical, lol. Brunch is often fruit, nuts and yogurt. I do dinner prep (all from scratch, so it takes a while) at about 4 pm, then just reheat it when it's time, since we're well into TV and cocktails by then. I'm kind of amazed that grown adults are still eating dry cereal for breakfast. And orange juice. Processed junk and sugar. We should know better by now. Then again, alcohol has sugar. I guess we pick our poison, lol.
so post above someone who daily consumes booze and marijuana, is looking down on "grown adults" who eat cereal and orange juice. and in the Health and Wellness thread. In my view the grown ups in the room are the ones who are not marinating in recreational drugs, booze, pot.
Eat when you're hungry, not on some arbitrary schedule.
Some people don't feel hungry in the morning; they shouldn't force themselves to eat a big breakfast.
Eating two meals a day is probably better than three.
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