BIGGER lunch

That's exactly what I heard, so I try to cut off all eating about 2 hours before bed....but sometimes if we're really busy and I don't even get home til 8ish and I'm going to bed at 10, then I just don't eat at all (which probably isn't good either) but I don't know what to do!

I definitely do think it can help!  I have never been very successful at doing that. It seems that no matter what I eat during the day, i am still too hungry to eat only a little for supper!  Now, with DH in the picture, ferget it. He loves our suppers.  Hey, give it a whirl.

My guy likes the bigger meals at night too!  But he says if I want to do it that way we can just eat differently -- I just cook enough to have leftovers for the week and I take them for lunch and he warms them up for dinner!  I have done it the last 3 nights and I do seem to be more satisfied in the afternoons and when I get home.....I may try to stick with this and see if that lasts!

I know they say it's better for you to eat your biggest at breakfast.  I myself can't seem to do it.  I would be starving if I even did a big lunch.  I'm not sure if it's the routine of us getting use to eating like this, or if we really are hungrier at night.  I'm almost thinking it's our culture, how we were raised.  Just like anything else, you would have to break the habit!  Hmmm

I can't eat anything huge in the morning because it sits heavy on my stomach.  I also don't like a lot of the typical  breakfast foods!  I don't eat eggs or grits or oatmeal (I know I'm weird)....i'm sure there are more I can think of.  I'm also really not a big morning person so I don't think I could eat a bigger meal til I was more awake! I also think it's more how we were raised -- at least I was raised that way.  I'm going to try to do it for a little while and see how it goes.....it may or may not work -- we'll see how it affects the weight loss too!

My nutritionist has me on pretty balanced meals for all meals.  At dinner I have no fruit, whereas I have fruit at the other meals. However, at dinner she increases my starch by 1 because there's no fruit.  I choose to eat more veggies at lunch and dinner to fill myself up. Veggies are free so if you're hungry go ahead and fill up on them.  (That's lo-carb/carb-free green veggies, not corn, beans, etc.) There's nothing wrong with eating a bigger lunch than dinner. I know dinner is rough for me and I have a tendency to eat more just because I'm at home and bored.  So eating a larger lunch sometimes does seem to help curb the urge to snack after dinner.  It's worth a shot yanno?  Go ahead and try it and see if it helps you. 

I'm curious what the reasoning behind not eating the fruit at dinner is?  Is it the sugar?

I have an episode of "I Lost It" on my DVR where this lady ate her biggest meal of the day around 4 AM and her last meal of the day was no later than 2 PM.  Accordingly to her this is the only change she made in her diet and she lost an incredible amount of weight.   Brenda

Oh my dear god -- I wonder what her schedule was?  That would require me to be up and functioning at 4 am!  I don't get up until 5:45 or 6 and I know if I stopped eating at 2 pm I would FEEL like I was starving at some point in the evenings.  WOW!  That sounds really interesting though.  Maybe it's one of those things where you have to do it and get over the initial hump and then your body adjusts and it isn't so hard.....wow.....that's about all I can say to that!

Yes, its the sugar. Sugar is instant energy. I think it's that if the energy is not spent then it turns into triglycerides. (fat)  Since I'm not doing much after dinner there is no need for the extra energy. So there is no need to eat the fruit other than for taste.