There is an old saying “One must eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” This approach can aid in better wellbeing and also losing weight. The research findings were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and discovered that the time of meal can have a larger impact than what you eat. The scientists correlated the weight loss outcomes of two groups of people on diet, all women amid the age 18–45 Years, who intake the same amount of calories daily. The group who had its major meal of the day during lunch lost 3 Pounds extra compared to the group that consumes a big dinner—which is 12.5 Pounds compared to 9.5 Pounds in 12 Weeks. They also reported of improvement in insulin sensitivity, which can aid in keeping diabetes at bay.

While more research is required to discover if these outcomes can be retained and if they are applied to the general population, it is an easy lifestyle modification that anyone can make. As an additional benefit, the typical mid-afternoon hunger that ends up in reaching for snacks or a candy bar can be avoided. To make the change easier, during dinner, it is advised to fill the plate by healthy foods that can be consumed in high volumes, such as a salad and lots of vegetables.

On a similar note, weight-control programs such as Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers and diet app MyFitnessPal recommend dieters to fix a calorie budget daily. A new study explored whether that is the best move toward calorie setting. For example, scientists wondered if fixing calorie budgets by a meal made any difference to dieters. Aradhna Krishna (from the University of Michigan), Xiuping Li (from the National University of Singapore), and Miaolei Jia (from the University of Warwick) led the research and asked consumers to fix calorie budgets either by meal (breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner) or by day. The study was published in the Journal of Consumer Research. They found that consumers fixed lower daily calorie budgets if they put them by meal and not day.