Many diets focus on food quality or macronutrients like carbohydrates and protein because calories aren't everything.
This strategy may help some people lose weight, but we don't know much about the environmental and biological factors that aid or impede weight reduction.
Health experts recommend eating supper two to three hours before bed and closing the kitchen.
According to a 2021 Current Opinion in Biotechnology review, circadian rhythms may help the body burn calories, manage blood glucose, and enhance digestion earlier in the day.
Lunch should be your biggest meal, along with breakfast (assuming you eat breakfast). Its timing has the least effect on weight reduction.
Front-loading to receive most of your daily calories and nutrients before early afternoon makes biological sense as food is fuel.