Anonymous wrote:Why do people get hungry after dinner? If you’re eating a proper meal, this shouldn’t happen. I think it’s just boredom.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: if you experience things one way, just be grateful and don’t make judgments on those of us who don’t experience it that way. I would love to feel satiety. I don’t usually. How do you think that feels, to eat a well balanced meal in a balanced amount and feel the gaping maw of hunger?

The whole intermittent fasting thing is pointless for 99.9999% of people. Unless you are very strict diet tied to a very strict workout routine and have sub 10% body fat, it isn’t so much for you.

The only thing I get matters is your calorie deficit. Nothing else matters.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people get hungry after dinner? If you’re eating a proper meal, this shouldn’t happen. I think it’s just boredom.

It is common for some to eat a late dinner. I have a kid in high school who eats before sports and then eats again after. I’m at work when he eats his first dinner so i eat with him afterwards, usually around 8:15. I’m not trying to lose weight, so it doesn’t seem to impact me much, but it’s odd that you don’t seem to realize others have different schedules.

Yeah-- depending on season, this is the biggest obstacle to my IF. Sometimes the kids need to eat dinner at 7:30 or 8:00 because of schedules. And other times, I have something going on where I want to be well nourished relatively early in the morning. So there are often spans of a year where I can do this and make it work. But definitely not all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:lol I’ve basically always followed that rule and I’m still usually fat. I mean, 7:30???

Yeah 7:30 - 7:30 isn’t really intermittent fasting, that’s just normal. Makes you wonder what OP was eating and drinking after 7:30 that this is making her lose weight.

I try from either 4 pm- breakfast or dinner 6ish-noon. Big fan of IF.

Anonymous wrote:lol I’ve basically always followed that rule and I’m still usually fat. I mean, 7:30???

Me too. I never eat at those times.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people get hungry after dinner? If you’re eating a proper meal, this shouldn’t happen. I think it’s just boredom.

It is common for some to eat a late dinner. I have a kid in high school who eats before sports and then eats again after. I’m at work when he eats his first dinner so i eat with him afterwards, usually around 8:15. I’m not trying to lose weight, so it doesn’t seem to impact me much, but it’s odd that you don’t seem to realize others have different schedules.

Alternatively, some people have an early dinner. We used to eat at 5ish when my kids were little so I tended to have a small snack later in the evening.

Anonymous wrote:Why do people get hungry after dinner? If you’re eating a proper meal, this shouldn’t happen. I think it’s just boredom.

It is common for some to eat a late dinner. I have a kid in high school who eats before sports and then eats again after. I’m at work when he eats his first dinner so i eat with him afterwards, usually around 8:15. I’m not trying to lose weight, so it doesn’t seem to impact me much, but it’s odd that you don’t seem to realize others have different schedules.

I think this is good idea. I do this naturally.
I don’t think 12 hrs is a fast, it isn’t that long. But generally, most food/snack decisions after 7:30 at night are not good choices (snack foods, cookies, etc)

Anonymous wrote:Why do people get hungry after dinner? If you’re eating a proper meal, this shouldn’t happen. I think it’s just boredom.

Yes--this is why intermittent fasting helped for me. I gave myself a 'rule.' Even if the kids were coming into the room with cake and ice cream, I'd just tell myself I need to wait til tomorrow lunch and can have the same thing if I want. And of course, by then the craving had worn off. Mornings with IF were tougher-- when starting, I'd count down the minutes til I could have coffee and breakfast. But that delayed breakfast would fill me up, delay my lunch, and delayed lunch would make me make a very small dinner... and then another cycle.

I've been telling myself to start again but right now it's a bit hard because I do a lot of physical stuff some mornings at work and feel like I need to eat breakfast before.

Why do people get hungry after dinner? If you’re eating a proper meal, this shouldn’t happen. I think it’s just boredom.

I lost a lot of weight on intermittent fasting (and then had life changes/stressed out and gained it back)!

OP-- I did a longer fast (usually like 7:00-11:00) but my belief was that it wasn't the hormone stuff that they tout with IF, but rather I think the reason it helped me is that it stopped me from snacking... I'd want a snack, realize that it was after 7 and somehow my commitment to IF convinced me to forego... or I'd delay breakfast, and then end up combining breakfast/lunch and kind of skipping the other meal.

If 12 hour has this effect for you, that's fantastic!

I have coffee with a splash of half n half and then eat two meals, generally between 11-7 . At times I don’t eat until 2 pm. Doing this kind of helps you deal with hunger too. I used to eat all day long tiny snacks. Now most days just two meals no snacks. But I also listen to my body. Some days for whatever reason I need to eat earlier I do.

People should not be eating all day long though. You can’t digest and you keep pumping that insulin.