When to eat dinner

[3NUMBAS]

3hours before bed for me

 

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best-time-to-eat-dinner-longevity-2025
 

[Ralf001]

between 1200 and 1300 for me.

[MalcolmB]

At dinner time?

[Harrisfan]

1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best-time-to-eat-dinner-longevity-2025
 

3hours before bed for me

When hungry

[OneManShow]

Not later than 6:00 pm

[BoganInParasite]

No dinner for a couple of years now. 14-15 hour daily fast. Not noticed any health benefits but now getting older and less active so don't need the calories of three meals. Much prefer a substantial breakfast and light lunch.

[newbee2022]

An earlier dinner gives you a good amount of time to digest your food and allows your blood sugar to properly rise and fall after dinner. So, you’re not going to bed with a full belly or skyrocketing blood sugar. In fact, people who eat an earlier dinner often report better sleep.

[novacova]

Also eating or eating too much before sleep has a higher chance of causing sleep apnea. 

[blaze master]

I'm guilty of drinking water right up to bedtime. I have to stop. 

[wombat]

2 hours ago, OneManShow said:

Not later than 6:00 pm

those early bird specials are hard to ignore arent they 🤣

[Moonlover]

2 hours ago, blaze master said:

I'm guilty of drinking water right up to bedtime. I have to stop. 

I've managed to quit that now. I'm already following the intermittent fasting regime, having finished eating by 6pm. But I was getting annoyed at having to make multiple trips to the bathroom at night.

 

Not anymore. My fasting now includes drinking of any kind and now I only need to pee once during the night. 

 

I do occasionally feel dehydrated when I wake up to pee, in which case just a small sip of water, maybe half a glass, is enough to see me through the night.

 

As mentioned by @newbee2022 above, my sleep is much improved.

[FolkGuitar]

I eat three full meals a day, drink 3-5 liters of tea or water every day (I confess I do pee often during the day but not at night,) and drink a large mug of tea in the evenings.  I go to sleep around 11:30, fall asleep almost instantly (which really pisses off my wife,)  and wake up with the sunrise. 
At 78, this works well for me.

[Look Chang]

4 hours ago, BoganInParasite said:

No dinner for a couple of years now. 14-15 hour daily fast. Not noticed any health benefits but now getting older and less active so don't need the calories of three meals. Much prefer a substantial breakfast and light lunch.

Because of my obesity, 108kg, I started this 8/16 also called intermittent fasting almost a year ago and I am now at 99kg. It's going down slowly but it's working. I hope to become handsome again next year . . .

[Moonlover]

3 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

I eat three full meals a day, drink 3-5 liters of tea or water every day (I confess I do pee often during the day but not at night,) and drink a large mug of tea in the evenings.  I go to sleep around 11:30, fall asleep almost instantly (which really pisses off my wife,)  and wake up with the sunrise. 
At 78, this works well for me.

For a 78 year old, you're doing very well. 

[brewsterbudgen]

Breakfast: 6.45

Lunch: 11.30

Dinner: 5.30

[FolkGuitar]

42 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

For a 78 year old, you're doing very well. 

The trick is... don't stop.  🙂

[KhunLA]

Largest meal, usually between 1500-1800 hrs, with very lite snack before 2000 hrs.   Sleep around midnight.  Breakfast about noon.   Black coffee in early AM ~0600 hrs

[Luuk Chaai]

..  I listen to the body 

I eat when I'm hungry .. 

start with a glass of mineral water then  a cappuccino somewhere between 3-5 am ( average wake up time is 2:30 - 3 am )

 

1st meal usually between 11am and 2pm

and that is usually anywhere from 4-6 eggs  a300 gram grilled burger (no bread) or steak, and 4-6 slices of bacon

maybe  2x a week I'll eat a second time somewhere around 4-5pm usually eggs and a burger /steak ( no bread !! )

 or if I feel like chicken 12-14 baked legs

either way ..   bed time 9:30-10:30

repeat ..   same 

 

 

[KhaoHom]

Not much breakfast these days

 

Lunch between 1130 and 1430

 

I eat a small dinner around 6pm. Only time I eat after 8 or 9 is if I was out and had a few.

[fredwiggy]

Breakfast- 06:00, Small meal -09:30-10:00, Lunch- 13:00, Dinner- 16:00-17:00, fruit snack after Lunch.