shootingstar Posted March 27, 2022 Share #1 Posted March 27, 2022 Suggestion that eating within good natural body cycle will foster healthy metabolism, hormones functioning right and even foster better mental health: TRE involves restricting the eating window to a certain amount of time during the day, typically four to 12 hours. For example, choosing to eat all meals and snacks in a 10-hour window from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. reflects an overnight fasting period. Evidence suggests that this method optimizes brain function, energy metabolism and the healthy signalling of metabolic hormones. TRE has already been shown to prevent depressive and anxiety symptoms in animal studies designed to model shift work. The antidepressant effects of TRE have also been shown in humans. Eating on a regular schedule is also beneficial to reduce the risk of health issues such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. During work week, I eat breakfast around 6:00 (or 5:15 am when I go back to office), then a snack of something 7:00-11:00 am and eat dinner anytime 5:00-7:00 pm. I actually don't really have lunch and have been like this for past 25 yrs. However if I go out for lunch with friend(s), and if it's big enough, then not much for dinner. Clearly I'm not really following the 12 hr. cycle to get the body burning properly. But stated times, especially dinner start well before 7:00 pm seems to be healthier for me in past 3 yrs. I can confirm I had a job which was a 1.5 hr. commute 1 way. So I didn't eat dinner until 8:00 pm...and I gained weight. It was not good to eat so late and also I didn't feel good psychologically either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted March 27, 2022 Share #2 Posted March 27, 2022 Talk about eating cycles. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted March 27, 2022 Share #3 Posted March 27, 2022 I eat when I'm hungry, that's probably wrong but I don't care 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted March 27, 2022 Share #4 Posted March 27, 2022 I follow a traditional schedule. Breakfast, lunch, supper. Snacks are not big or routine. I do drink a lot of coffee, though. FWIW, I have a big brain. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted March 27, 2022 Share #5 Posted March 27, 2022 I tend not to feel hungry in the morning so eat an early lunch, usually between 10-11 am depending on my work schedule. I then eat dinner at around 6 and I do snack a little at night, fruit, nuts & other low carb salty snacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted March 27, 2022 Share #6 Posted March 27, 2022 5am, 7am, 10am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm and 8pm. There are snacks in between these times some days. Those would be my preferred times but I can't do that. Only Hobbits can do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted March 27, 2022 Share #7 Posted March 27, 2022 When I am hungry. I haven't had a normal schedule in 40 years so, that works. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted March 27, 2022 Share #8 Posted March 27, 2022 37 minutes ago, Wilbur said: When I am hungry. I haven't had a normal schedule in 40 years so, that works. When I had a job everything was scheduled. When you started, When you ate, how much time you had to eat. Now that I don't have a schedule I still eat around the same time every day. I have more than 8 minutes to eat lunch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share #9 Posted March 27, 2022 I dimly now pay attention when I have supper and earlier for me, is better. There's no exact time for last meal. Because I had 2nd shingles shot yesterday, I went to bed around 7:30 pm, after having soup with veggie an hr. before, and woke up twice, with fever. Didn't get out of bed for breakfast until 7:30 am today. Feels like body burned through 2 candles since am abit weak. I don't think I can go cycling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted March 28, 2022 Share #10 Posted March 28, 2022 "...choosing to eat all meals and snacks in a 10-hour window from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. reflects an overnight fasting period. Evidence suggests that this method optimizes brain function." It sounds like a reasonable plan. Unfortunately, most people don't have the choice of eating breakfast before 9 am! My teaching day began around 6:30 am and we had lunch around 10:30 am. So most of us ate brunch on weekdays. I coached, cross county, indoor track, and softball for at least one season each year, so dinner was often after 7 pm. For indoor track, we made an arrangement with a Pizza Hut to bring the team there AFTER they were closed for the night on Tuesdays because of the length of indoor track meets and the distance we had to travel to get back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted March 28, 2022 Share #11 Posted March 28, 2022 I'm usually awake by 6 am and will feel hungry between 7 am and 8 am, so I eat breakfast then. If I plan to be away from the house in the early afternoon, I'll have lunch around 11 am - so I can digest it before I go out. Otherwise between noon and 1 pm. Dinner is usually between 6 pm and 7 pm. I don't snack between breakfast and dinner. There are times when I've been very busy, grab a 12 oz can of V8 veggie juice for lunch and have dinner a little early. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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