Always Eat After 7 PM book challenge new food plan

This post is sponsored by “Always eat after 7 pm”. All ideas expressed and written are my own.

Losing weight or going on a diet has never been a priority since quarantine began back in March. Lets face it, just getting through the days in one, okay piece has been a big enough feat. But now here we are in June. While NYC is finally lifting some restrictions, it still feels far from normal here. Since staying in is now the new way of life I realize I have an obligation to myself. To keep my body and brain healthy. Which means eating right, staying somewhat active and making smarter choices. That’s why I’m taking part in the Always Eat after 7 pm book challenge with Joel Marion’s new book.

The book, whose full title is, Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight is essentially three parts. The first, a fourteen day acceleration phase that high kicks you into gear. Big changes aimed to provide fast results. The main phase where you’re taught how and what to eat. Then, the final lifestyle phase. Learning to sustain new habits in the long term.

As I try to emerge from my shell and become whole again, I want to work on both the mental and the physical. After all, our immune system and a healthy attitude are truly two of our best defenses against a crazy world right now. Keeping myself on a regime and with a goal isn’t just good for me right now, it’s a project to focus on.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve had some trouble focusing these past few months.

But with Always Eat after 7 pm, you can follow a program and still feel like you’re breaking some old, stodgy rules. One of the biggest ones, (the main theme of the book) being that, yes, you can, and should eat later in the evening. Unlike what we’ve been lead to believe.

According to Marion, “Late-night eating also curbs calorie intake the next day. In a four-week study, dieters added a snack to their daily regimen 90 minutes after dinner every night. And check this out, late-night eaters ate an average of 397 fewer calories per day.”

Meaning that all my stress snacking in the evening hours maybe wasn’t so terrible after all!

Another so called myth Marion dispels is that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Even advising skipping it all together. I won’t be following that aspect of the plan, as I’m also getting my fertility health back in gear. But there’s a bigger picture here. Just because certain things were taught all these years, like always eating breakfast, not snacking at night, or straying from carbs, doesn’t necessarily make them true.

Always Eat After 7 PM book challenge: A new rule breaking diet

If you’re anything like me, you’ve had some trouble focusing these past few months.

According to Marion, “Late-night eating also curbs calorie intake the next day. In a four-week study, dieters added a snack to their daily regimen 90 minutes after dinner every night. And check this out, late-night eaters ate an average of 397 fewer calories per day.”