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Why does hunger come in waves? Move your meal times and watch it pass

Hunger is not a fuel gauge that only goes down. It rises and falls in waves, and a good part of the rhythm follows the times you usually eat.

Move your meal times, then compare eating on schedule with waiting it out to see the shape of a hunger wave. It is an illustrative sketch, with the evidence explained plainly and who should not skip meals.

Three orange hunger waves on a grey card, one before each usual meal time, with the middle meal marker left empty

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