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PollWhat time do you eat dinner?
138 votes
People dinning before 5: are you alright?
When my kids were small, early dinner was our reality and if we wrangled the kids to a restaurant, it was all people with young kids and the elderly.
I am not yet at the point where I’m searching for early bird specials, but I know it’s looming!
I usually eat around 9, but yesterday I went out for dinner with people around 5 and I think it might be better for me. I slept through the night and woke up refreshed (unfortunately unusual).
No, but it doesn't bother me.
I wake up at 4 a.m. no matter what I do. This has led to my going to bed at 8 p.m. in quest of eight hours' sleep. So breakfast is at four, dinner is at four, and lunch is at ten a.m. if I'm not at work.
Shift workers perhaps? In grad school, I worked overnights and ate dinner at like.. 3 am. It was weird.
And if people eat dinner before 5, what time do they have lunch then? Or is it just breakfast and dinner then?
Whenever German or Dutch people come to France they always seem surprised by how "late" we tend to eat dinner.
But how can you start Apéro at 6 or 7 pm if you've already eaten dinner !
around 6.30 :)
cheers for the random poll - life hit me with a nasty ton of bricks today so needed a little light relief!
I try to have dinner between 5:30 and 6 because the kids have a routine. Can't eat too close to bedtime or else all the excuses come out: tummy hurts, gotta poop, too worked up, they also just take forever to eat lol. It works the best for us.
No set time as I live alone. I answered between 7 and 8 because that’s what I think of as standard dinner time, but it’s not that organized. Sometimes I come home and cook something then eat it, sometimes I have a snack or leftovers before I start cooking for the next day, sometimes I graze all evening, stopping when I’m full. Sometimes I don’t eat enough and wake up hungry in the middle of the night. I could be more consistent.
I eat around 6. I'd prefer to eat later, but with GERD I need to stay up for three hours. I don't like going to bed late.
Between 5 and 6. But I have GERD. I eat a light breakfast, then more or less a snack for lunch. Then early dinner.
As I have gotten older, even though I really try to stay active, I need fewer calories. (A friend told me this was an adaptation, because when we get older, the young ones won't feed us if times get tough!)
It depends on work. Most days I’m done between 8-9 so I won’t get home til 830-930. So usually I eat dinner between 930-10 on average!
Weekends I’m with my boyfriend usually and we’ll have dinner around 6. I find it really early. But I also get most people aren’t eating as late as I usually do.
I try to mainly eat between noon thru 5pm-ish, but am flexible with dinnertime if it involves others or is a special occasion. But most days by around 4pm (and definitely by 5pm), I'm starting to want dinner, especially if I haven't had too much previously.
Is your schedule part of intermittent fasting, or just personal preference? My natural tendency is to eat a big breakfast—I can’t really get started until I’ve had a decent portion of protein—and then a medium-sized meal at lunch. Sometimes that’s all I need for the day and then I forget or don’t bother to eat before bed, but then I wake up hungry in the middle of the night. I wish I could trim my eating hours a little bit I’m not sure where I would cut. Skipping breakfast is not an option.
Is your schedule part of intermittent fasting, or just personal preference?
I'm a short woman, so unfortunately for me to maintain a healthy BMI, I need to eat only around 1,300 calories/day. So over time I've realized that if I awaken my hunger too early in the day, it's harder for me to stay below a certain calorie threshold because I start craving MORE food as soon as I have something yummy. However, I NEED black coffee in the morning, and like tea too before noon, so pre-noon is the time that I focus on drinking to feel full and get hydrated with a lot of water. Morning is also my more meditative time where I try to not focus on 'earthly' things, including hunger. With dinnertime, I need/prefer to have a cutoff time, or I will snack throughout the evening, and I don't like the feeling of going to bed super full-stomached, plus gotta stay within that calorie window. So I tend to have a filling lunch + dinner/dessert, or sometimes even do one meal a day if I wait to eat as late as 3pm-ish.
eat a big breakfast
I LOVE breakfast food for lunch or dinner.
Disclaimer: I've dealt with lifelong disordered eating habits that I've had under control for about 5+ years. Have been both dangerously overweight AND I even have been slightly BELOW my healthy BMI range before, lived both extremes. So I may not be one to really take advice from, that all just works well for me. I think food and health is a deeply personal and unique subject intrinsically linked with mental/emotional/spiritual wellbeing, so we all may have different needs, and that's totally ok!
I've realized that if I awaken my hunger too early in the day, it's harder for me to stay below a certain calorie threshold because I start craving MORE food as soon as I have something yummy.
Interesting. My dad has the same theory about eating making you hungrier. His solution is to skip lunch. I feel like I can’t do that now because I so look forward to lunch at work as a break in my day. Maybe I could try doing something else, going for a walk, reading a book, or having a text chat with a friend. On weekends I do tend to eat based on hunger, which ends up being 2 1/2 or 3 meals/day, roughly breakfast/lunch/dinner but not entirely.
My partner works a very early shift and I get off at 4pm, so we eat dinner early. Usually before 5 unless we decide to cook something complicated on a weeknight.
Whenever I'm done or have a slight break in work. I try to eat around 5-6 though.
My husband's family has dinner at 9, so I've adapted to that. We usually eat around 8 or 830 but it is nice sometimes to eat earlier.
Between 5 and 6 here, though that's mainly down to my husband's office hours being +1 hour to the country we live in.
About 22:00 lol seems like I'm in the minority here
This was me before kids. My sister used to call me at 11pm and say "oh shoot, are you eating dinner?"