If you keep breaking your eating window in the evening, you probably didn’t eat enough during it. The most common reason isn’t lack of discipline—it’s that earlier meals didn’t provide adequate satiety. Insufficient protein, carbohydrate crashes, accumulated stress, and sleep debt all drive evening hunger.
This companion explores the usual suspects, the sneakier causes (cortisol, sleep, habit), and the diagnostic question that separates genuine hunger from something else wearing hunger’s mask. (3 min read)