It took some time but I do it every day now I like to be there, drinking my coffee or something. it’s very safe if I am well-fasted and it’s still early (3pm nowadays).
I think some people simply born needing bigger meals. Even as a baby, I didn’t need to eat every few hours. Even as a kid, I so hated breakfast, I definitely didn’t need it. But when I ate, I meant business and ate a lot if I could (once I cried at school lunch as my food was so very tiny. and I was a tiny girl myself).
Some people can’t get satiated eating small meals. It’s perfectly fine and healthy, we are just different.
Hunger going away always seemed pretty odd to me. Now I have that sometimes but it just got progressively worse before (I think. I practically always ate when I got even slightly hungry or even earlier but well, I had a few extra cases during those decades. my hunger just got worse and worse, I don’t remember it going away ever before I got fat adapted). If my body wants food, it wants food stubbornly.
I tried that once. Never again. It’s not a good idea for everyone for sure, to put it lightly.
I don’t know what to do, of course but I surely wouldn’t sacrifice my sleep and health, surely one can explain this to the kids…? They must see other examples where an adult is seemingly different…