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[shoptilyadropagain]

I grew up eatting dinner at 5:00 but now it's anywhere between 5:15 & 5:30.

[silentgirl]

Between 7-9

[SaRina]

At around 4 p.m. Nothing to eat after that. That's one of the ways I'm able to keep my weight down.

[Allegheny]

We eat two meals daily.

Since retirement husband rises much later; breakfast is between 9:30 & 10:00 am.  We eat (supper) dinner between 4:30 & 5:00 pm.  Admittedly, after dinner there is some light snacking during the evening.  We don't go to bed until 1:30am.

[chrystaltree]

Five would be too early for me.  I stop working around 5pm and hubby gets home around 6pm.  We have dinner around 7pm.  Hubby likes to change, nibble on some veggies and dip and watch the new before he eats dinner.  I eat small meals every 2 to 2.5 hours, so I'm not ready for dinner until 7pm. 

[SeaMaiden]

No later that 5PM.   Nothing after dinner. I like to go to bed with an empty stomach...and fast for at least 12 plus hours.  I usually have a late breakfast at 10 AM.

[Marienkaefer2]

Between 5 and 6.  Depends on what time I get home, what I've got prepared ahead of time, etc.

[chrystaltree]

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@Sooner wrote:

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@151949 wrote:

When I was working I didn't get home until 8 PM or often much later. I had to get up at 4:30 to go back so I rarely ate , just quick shower & go to bed. I kept putting on weight & the doctor said it was because I wasn't eating and my body would go into starvation mode and slow my metabolism way down - then it takes a few days of regular meals to reset it. So I started taking trail mix to work with me to grab handfuls through the day so my body would not think I was starving.Oddly this made me very hungry all the time.

Now I am retired I rarely eat breakfast , just coffee and a piece of toast or an english muffin. We have lunch at noon and dinner at 5:30 every day.I'm rarely ever actually hungry - which is a wonderful thing after all the years of work & being half starved most of the time.

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Isn't toast and coffee breakfast?????

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      No, toast and coffee is not a nutritious breakfast.   Add a protein and a piece of fruit and it would.   I can to relate to that whole "metabolism" and starving your body thing.  It took me 40 years to understand that not eating enough and not eating often enough was was why I once weighed close to 400lbs.  I was always one of those "I never eat breakfast" people.  And I'd eat sparingly througout the day and eat a huge dinner and snack my way throughout the evening and then every few months, I'd go on some crazy diet and lose 50 or 60lbs and then I'd start eating agan and gain 70lbs and.....on and on it went.  30 years of that and I'd destroyed my metabolism and I had every nutritional deficiency a person can have and I was still fat.  I understand it all now and I'm building a healthier body and lifestyle....it's an ongoing process but I'll never undo some of what I did to my body.

[AuntG]

We call it supper and on weekdays we eat at 5:15. Generally, we eat an hour later on weekends. 

[Cookie2025]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

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@Sooner wrote:

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@151949 wrote:

When I was working I didn't get home until 8 PM or often much later. I had to get up at 4:30 to go back so I rarely ate , just quick shower & go to bed. I kept putting on weight & the doctor said it was because I wasn't eating and my body would go into starvation mode and slow my metabolism way down - then it takes a few days of regular meals to reset it. So I started taking trail mix to work with me to grab handfuls through the day so my body would not think I was starving.Oddly this made me very hungry all the time.

Now I am retired I rarely eat breakfast , just coffee and a piece of toast or an english muffin. We have lunch at noon and dinner at 5:30 every day.I'm rarely ever actually hungry - which is a wonderful thing after all the years of work & being half starved most of the time.

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Isn't toast and coffee breakfast?????

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      No, toast and coffee is not a nutritious breakfast.   Add a protein and a piece of fruit and it would.   I can to relate to that whole "metabolism" and starving your body thing.  It took me 40 years to understand that not eating enough and not eating often enough was was why I once weighed close to 400lbs.  I was always one of those "I never eat breakfast" people.  And I'd eat sparingly througout the day and eat a huge dinner and snack my way throughout the evening and then every few months, I'd go on some crazy diet and lose 50 or 60lbs and then I'd start eating agan and gain 70lbs and.....on and on it went.  30 years of that and I'd destroyed my metabolism and I had every nutritional deficiency a person can have and I was still fat.  I understand it all now and I'm building a healthier body and lifestyle....it's an ongoing process but I'll never undo some of what I did to my body.

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I can totally understand the crazy work hours and not eating.  I actually went to the gym, tanned then went to bed for a couple of hours before going into work.  I was never fat (until now) but I totally got the starving the body issue early in life. I force fed myself because I saw the pounds piling on when I didn't eat.  I wasn't hungry.

Trail mix was the worst thing you did to yourself.