387. Q&A: Eating At The Wrong Times? Here's How To Time Your Meals For Fat Loss
Hot, Healthy, Never Hungry
Lauren Hubert MS, RD
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel like your eating habits are solid, but your unpredictable schedule is what's holding you back from fat loss?
If that sounds familiar, you're not alone.
In today's episode, I'm answering a question from Jenni – a listener from this show who is a nurse navigating long, busy, and often unpredictable shifts. We're diving into how to structure your day when your schedule isn't consistent, and why your approach to eating needs to be flexible, not perfect.
Because even if your work hours are set… when (and how) you eat can vary a lot. This is something I see all the time with my clients, and in real life with my husband's career too.
Inside the episode, I'm breaking down simple, realistic strategies to help you create more consistency in your day, support your fat loss goals, and know exactly what to do in those moments when you're not hungry, but also don't know when you'll be able to eat next.
No matter what your schedule looks like, you'll walk away knowing how to stay on track with fat loss even when your day doesn't go as planned.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to another episode of Hot Healthy, Never |
| 0:11.8 | Hungry. |
| 0:12.7 | I love me a little question that's submitted by you, by the listeners here. |
| 0:17.0 | So I wanted to do a question that actually is near and dear to my heart because it's a |
| 0:23.7 | reality that I have lived in. And while I am not a shift worker, my husband is a shift worker with very |
| 0:31.1 | evolving shifts. And I will say because of my husband's career choice, I definitely get a lot of |
| 0:36.5 | women who also have very similar |
| 0:38.1 | career choices and schedules, which we'll get to in a moment. And I wanted to address meal timing, |
| 0:45.1 | especially if you are a shift worker. And I've never talked about kind of timing your meals with your |
| 0:51.4 | schedule in such a way that I will be in response to Jenny's question. So we're going to talk about that today. Before we begin, we got a really awesome review. I want to give a shout out to. Citizen Cupcake, which by the way, I could really go for a cupcake. I have been loving a cupcake since the last time I got one with my daughter. And I feel like I've been sleeping on a cupcake. Really good. And like if you really think about it, especially depending on the type, |
| 1:14.1 | it can be so portion controlled versus buying like a big damn slice of cake, which I love as well, |
| 1:18.4 | by the way. But anyway, Citizen Cupcake wrote as advertised, Hot Healthy, Never Hungry. I appreciate |
| 1:24.5 | Lauren's content because she balances advice for achieving asceticles with a healthy, reasonable approach. Some experts can be maddening because they |
| 1:32.3 | minimize looking good as a goal of a diet and exercise or swing too hard the other way and make |
| 1:37.5 | recommendations that are unrealistic for most people. All I ever want for this body is to be hot, |
| 1:42.9 | healthy, and never hungry. Oh, oh, girl, sizzle. I love that. I am obsessed. Truly, truly obsessed. I'm going to use that word. I know it's like an annoying word. Sometimes people say online, but I am truly obsessed here. And you say like, all I ever want is to be hot, healthy, never hungry. Like, that's the point. I want you to realize you can lose weight without being starving 24-7. I want you to feel your hottest. I want you to look your hottest. I want you to feel healthy. I want you to genuinely be healthy and live a long, gorgeous life, because you deserve it. We all deserve it. These are things I want you to really have it all. I'm so happy you're getting it from |
| 2:17.7 | the show and I agree. Gosh, I don't want to go down this rabbit hole, but there is maddening stuff |
| 2:23.2 | online that makes me mad that gets me amp to press record on this microphone every damn week for |
| 2:29.4 | you guys. I understand why all are confused by so many things because guess what? |
| 2:39.6 | If I was in your shoes, I would be so darn confused if I wasn't listening to a podcast like this because there is some really shitty shit online. |
| 2:42.8 | We'll leave it at that. |
| 2:43.8 | If you enjoy this podcast and you agree, there is some maddening shitty shit online. |
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