Permission to Eat at Any Hour, Granted
The truth is, if you stop eating at X hour and wait to eat until the following morning, your body might change. It might not. But it might.
What is guaranteed? Is that you will experience hypoglycemia. Probably nothing dangerous, but your body will be seeking out additional food.
Assuming you don’t eat in the middle of the night. Which you might do. And no judgment, but most of my clients dislike that eating experience. If I’ve not fed myself thoughtfully enough during the day, I get hungry at night and eat. But I’d prefer uninterrupted sleep.
Making rules about when we stop eating, in accordance to a clock, is like making a rule about when we stop going to the bathroom, in accordance to a clock.
Silly. Also, an invitation for a UTI. Fun!
And, normalized restriction.
Somebody, sometime, somewhere, made some statement about the importance of pushing pause on appetites in the evening. I don’t know who that person was, but I do know that they have been fucking with my clients for as long as I have been a dietitian, and I would wager but they have been fucking with humans for a lot longer than I have been in practice.
A stop sign? A rule. It makes sense. Not up for interpretation.
Voting? A privilege and responsibility. Not a rule, but highly encouraged. And critically important.
Putting bodily functions on a timer? Foolish. Unnecessary.
No food after some hour because someone said so? A rule with unknown ideology that is well worth breaking.
Permission to eat at any hour, granted.
