I don’t know if anyone here also needs to hear this, but overeating at night isn’t necessarily a sign to save all your calories until the evening!
Sure, some people work better eating most or all their food in the evening – IF is popular for a reason.
But maybe you, like me, used to struggle or still do struggle with feeling ravenous (or just bored) and overindulging at night. If this is the case, I can see the temptation to save most of your calorie allowance for the evening – but experiment before you decide to stick with it forever.
Maybe eating most or all of your food at night does indeed work for you! Maybe you hate breakfast and prefer most of your food intake at a late lunch time for maximum satiation. Perhaps eating 3 meals + 2 snacks at regular intervals keeps you in check.
I noticed a huge shift in how “hungry” I was at night on my *calorie restricted intake* when I stopped trying to “save up” for my “inevitable” late night hunger, and instead ate the most food when I was the most hungry for it. In my case, ~2-3pm. It basically squashed my want to overeat at night, whereas saving all my food for later did the opposite and fed into my screwy hunger cues.
May seem obvious, but to me, it wasn’t.
Don’t treat ravenous night time hunger as inevitable. For me, it wasn't once I changed the way I thought about it - as a symptom that something else was lacking.
(Obviously don't discount that it may have nothing to do with the time of day, it could be you just aren’t getting enough protein or fat, or calories. Or maybe you’re using food as a self-soothing mechanism and changing your eating can only help so much with that once you're left alone with your thoughts at night- I just wanted to share something that helped me that's a little different from what I see a lot of people doing)
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