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‘Stop Eating After 7pm’ Challenge

When here, we fall into a TwoMAD routine, of breakfast and dinner. Rarely anything to eat in between, although, MrB (the metabolically unchallenged one) will sometimes have a choccie bikie after weekday a daily gym visit. We then eat between 5 and 6pm, and done for the day, so, by natural habit I’m in. MrB sort of in, but he’s the one who can carb munch to his hearts content and still have A1c in the 20s.

I have zero intent on trying to change his woe, unless he asks or wants to.
 
I'll be battling the early hours grab on food, as I often / mostly awaken for an hour or so between 2 and 4am, before nodding off for more kip.
I do my best to fight the impulse on a fridge raid, but haven't always been successful.
This week is adding incentive to me abstaining from munching the night away.
Steady in the 7s last night, which was an improvement on recent readings.
 
I will give this a go. I certainly need to as I am often fighting the 'boredom munchies' in the evening.
As MrsA2 commented earlier, even if I go to bed hungry I still don't want to eat until after 10am in the morning. Weekdays I tend to skip breakfast completely.
 
Update: I ate really early yesterday, at 16:30. I was worried I would be sneaking - sorry, snacking - later but when I did get tempted, I made myself a hot drink with Knorr chicken cube in boiling water with ACV and I was perfectly fine.
This challenge kept me honest!

*Edited for clarification.
 
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MissMuffett said:
Who will join me?

I intend to do this for the rest of January- 10 days and hopefully I’ll have broken the habit by then and carry on.

I‘m not hungry, I suspect I’m bored and it’s becoming a habit. So I thought if there were a few of us that struggle with this it would be good to record our successes and make suggestions on how we coped.

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My husband and I have been doing this time restricted eating for about six months. We’re retired so it’s easy to do. Supposed to be good for your microbiome. We stop eating at 6 or 7pm and don’t have breakfast /lunch until about 11 or 12 midday. Around a 16 hour fast. We find it easy enough as we’re not hungry when we wake up anyway. It’s problematic if we’re heading out for the day but we’re flexible and I’ll eat early if I need to.
 
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