Q I'm an office worker in my 20s who hasn't eaten breakfast for a long time. Could the habit of skipping breakfast be related to nighttime binging?
A Yes, they're closely connected. Skipping breakfast pushes your whole day's meal rhythm backward, so hunger piles up in the evening and at night and easily leads to binging.
Detailed Answer
When you skip breakfast, your body goes without the energy it needs to start the day and accumulates stronger hunger as afternoon and evening approach. In the end, a day's worth of appetite bursts all at once at night, leading to binging and late-night eating. In many cases, simply having breakfast and dividing three meals regularly noticeably reduces the intensity of nighttime binging.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
At Dongjedang, we see the rhythm thrown off by skipping breakfast as a state where what should be emptied during the day couldn't be emptied and got pushed to night. When the daytime flow is blocked, the body tries to balance it by binging at night. When we shift the day's digestive rhythm forward and release the stalled circulation, the appetite that crowded into the night naturally spreads across the whole day.
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