I notice I control my calorie intake much better with only black coffee in the mornings and eating in a 6 hour window later in the day. I have become sensitive to caffeine in the past year and mostly stick to decaf and it really made me realize how much I was relying on caffeine as an appetite suppressant.
Related rant: I wish I could get my hands on one of those fancy continuous glucose monitors to correlate my findings. Damn hassle in the US with prescription and all.
This was not one of the fancy kinds that are usually integrated with an insulin pump. It applied to the back of my arm.
Now I poke my finger 2-5 times a day. It was nice having data on my phone that I could look at, but that data was still locked to my device and not exportable so it was worthless.
I use Google Sheets to keep track, and I can do it anywhere AND do something useful with the data.
Look at the hardware lists of open source projects in this space:
https://openaps.readthedocs.io/en/master/docs/Gear%20Up/CGM....
https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Module/module.ht...
I tried various stuff but the common advice of "5 small meals across the day" just made me feel like some cow that constantly have to eat something and it was bother to manage, all while I was getting hungry quickly. Took a long while to switch but if I'm not trying to drop weight but "just" keep it steady I can eat big, nice, tasty meal once a day then don't touch food for next 24 hours without much hunger bothering me.
I stopped with caffeine because I was drinking it only at work and I often had headaches on Sunday, till I eventually figured out I will get headache from too much coffeine exactly 2 days after i stopped drinking it.
Didn't even drank it for the stimulation, just that I like coffee and work had expresso machine and I didn't... took like 2 weeks for me to stop being sleepy in the morning but wasn't that hard.
Even so if your electrolytes become imbalanced when you do hydrate after the fast it's a whole other set of concerns.
I prefer it, personally. Lift around 11am, follow with a big lunch and small early dinner. On rest days, small lunch and bigger dinner.
I found myself feeling a little weaker before I got into the habit of fasting until late afternoon, but once I got used to it - and corrected my water and salt intake - I felt normal, and then better than before, when I used to eat breakfast and lunch.
Combined with some legit meds I take, I sometimes need to remind myself to eat in the afternoon, and not get lazy about it. My appetite is very accustomed to being pushed off.