Dinner eating!

I often do the same. With work, it's not until the evening when I have a cooked meal. My recommendation would be try not to make it to carbohydrate heavy or a meal that will 'sit on your stomach'. If you can try to do some low intensity exercise about 30mins after the meal - just something light, this will make sure that your metabolism is working at a slightly higher rate for a few hours into the night.

I often eat about 7pm, so it's not too bad.

It doesn't matter when you consume your calories or the bulk of your calories as long as you are maintaining a deficit you will lose weight. I regularly eat my last meal at 10 pm or later.

What I have found to work for me is still eating that relatively large meal at dinner time (around 7-8pm), but cutting out some of the complex carbohydrates such as pasta, bread, rice, potatoes etc. or at least reducing them to less than 1/3rd of the calories for that meal. Later in the evening decaffeinated teas are my savior. If I am desperate for a nibble I always keep some low calorie, low sugar jello in the fridge as well.

And hey ... at the end of the day you need to keep yourself happy - otherwise you won't stay on track! So don't feel too bad about the grazing. Just try and balance it out the next day with some extra exercise

Eating a large meal in the morning does nothing for your metabolism. It's a myth. Eat whenever you want. Do whatever works for you. For a lot of people, a large meal in the morning helps prevent hunger throughout the day. Others don't have an issue with having a small or even no breakfast. It's down to personal preference. Your metabolism isn't effected by meal sizes at various times of the day.

This is completely true ^^

This is the common myth/saying: Eat breakfast like a king, lunch a queen, dinner like a pauper

And it is debunked here: http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html

Here is a small portion of the article:

Truth

Also connected to this saying, is the belief that you should reduce carbs in the evening as they will be less likely to be stored as fat. While this might sound good on paper, there's nothing to support it and a lot that shows it to be wrong.

The strongest argument against this are the numerous studies available on body composition and health after and during Ramadan fasting. This meal pattern of regular nightly feasts has a neutral or positive effect on body fat percentage and other health parameters. This is quite an extreme and telling example. People literally gorge on carbs and treats in the middle of the night to no ill effect. And yet, in the bizarre world of bodybuilding and fitness, people worry whether it's OK to eat 50 grams of carbs in their last meal.

If the scientific data on Ramadan fasting aren't enough, there are plenty of other studies showing no effect on weight loss or weight gain from eating later in the day.

In one study comparing two meal patterns, which involved one group eating more calories earlier in the day and one group eating most calories later in the day, more favorable results were found in the group eating large evening meals. While those who ate more in the AM lost more weight, the extra weight was in the form of muscle mass. The late evening eaters conserved muscle mass better, which resulted in a larger drop in body fat percentage.

I used to be the same. Dinner was my favourite (and biggest) meal of the day.

The problem with this is that you're stomach never gets a chance to shrink. You eat sparingly through the day and are STARVING in the evening. For me this is the worst scenario because food is so much more accessable when I'm at home in the evenings!

I'd eat smaller meals more frequently throughout the day, something along the lines of; breaky, mid morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and after dinner snack! 2-3 hours between each meal. You're constantly eating so you don't feel deprived.

It may take 3-5 days to get used to it but it teaches portion control and than you no longer need the big dinner meal!

I skip breakfast, I'd rather have those calories later in the day when i actually want them! I have a small lunch, around 3-400 cals, then a big dinner around midnight every day, around 8-900 cals. Meal timing and size is irrelevant as long as you maintain that calorie deficit.