Eating regularly

File: eating.png (198KB, 645x388px) Image search: [Google]

198KB, 645x388px

Okay, so I'm new to /sci/ but I'm posting here because I'd like to get some actual scientific responses and not broscience like I'd get on /fit/.

I keep seeing articles that stress about how important it is to eat at regularly defined hours to keep your weight down, because if you don't eat regularly you end up eating more.
But is there any scientific evidence to support this?

I work an office job where we can eat pretty much whenever we want from 12:00 to 14:00 (any later and all the restaurants close, so.)-
We usually go eat at 12:30, and by 11:30 I start getting incredibly hungry. If the portion sizes weren't predetermined I'd probably eat an industrial sized pot of whatever they're serving.
By contrast, when I'm on vacation (like I am now) I eat whenever, and I very rarely get that hungry, even if I haven't eaten in a long time.
I still only eat one or two meals a day, so it's not like I'm not hungry because I'm snacking all the time.
Even when I'm at work, if I end up skipping lunch because some emergency comes up, past 14:00 or so the hunger becomes a lot less noticeable.

Basically what I'm getting at is that, for me, eating at regular hours ends up causing more of a psychological dependence than the actual physical need for food.
I can't imagine I'm the only one that feels this.