Best time to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner for weight loss

You check TikTok for healthy recipes, plan meals that have the right balance of nutrients, and stick to your shopping list. It sounds like the key to good health, right? It could be—as long as you eat those meals at the right times.

While there are many different approaches to eating, and the meal plan that makes you feel your best may not suit someone else (and vice versa), you may want to try the following approach to see if it works for you.

“Your body handles the energy it takes in differently depending on the timing of your meals,” explains Jonathan C.

Jun, MD, associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Research shows that your ability to burn calories and regulate your appetite are linked to your circadian rhythms; failing to match your mealtimes to your body clock may spike fat-storing hormones and cancel out all of the benefits of your healthy diet.

The idea of matching your mealtimes to your body clock is gaining steam thanks to robust evidence that it can help fuel weight loss; of course there’s even a “circadian rhythm diet” that’s popped up which is bas

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