It's already mid January...

Gotcha... well needless to say iam surprised about the phone and not taking a video with it. But to your credit you have many other strengths that make up for that

Nearly every night. I try to eat my last meal between 8-9PM, and I got to bed a few hours later. But yeah, I get really hungry before I go to bed. I usually eat a little cottage cheese, or a can of chicken soup. Anything that has few calories and is a little filling.

Just no sweets, or sugar. A cup of soup or bullion usually will suffice.

It helps that I took all tempting treats out of the house. But I'm pretty much a stickler that 1,200 calories a day is my limit.

I also only really eat two meals a day. A lunch at about 2PM and a late supper.

I never wake up with food cravings though.

On the subject of cholesterol, I was listening to one of those experts on Diary Of A CEO recently and he was disputing the whole cholesterol thing and claiming that the cholesterol from food we consume passes right through us and claimed that it has no bearing on our cholesterol level and that this level is independent of our food intake. Could be BS but didn't seem to be and was an interesting theory.

Yeh I love blueberries in my porridge and as for nuts - I have 8 kinds and two kinds of seeds in small portions (approx 1 or 2 of each nut). I've found that they are really useful for staving off hunger - EG - if I eat a meal but am still a bit hungry and have some calorie allowance left, nuts are really good for filing that gap. My nut/seed portion is about 130 cals.

Regarding evening cravings - as mentioned in my original post above, I try to squeeze my eating window at both ends, So each evening I try to close the eating window as soon after dinner as possible, then only have water and herbal tea until the next day - whereas before this diet I would snack in the evening. So at first this was the hardest part, because I would get lots of cravings through the evening, But it quickly got weaker (after a week or two) and some days it's harder than others, but I make sure to load up with a good dinner to get me through. I just use the water and tea when I get a strong urge.

I also gave up junk desserts and just have some fruit and Greek yoghurt with chia/flax after dinner and a couple of squares of dark choc. Being committed to the eating window (and writing down the open/close times each day in a text file) helps me to resist the cravings - once I've closed it, it takes a lot to open it again as I am stretching the window for longer and working against all of the other gains. I see willpower as a muscle that needs daily workouts and something that gets easier when it's habitual.

The hardest thing to quit for me was those potato chips. What I did was to watch/read a lot of stuff about how much science goes into making those things addictive. That made me not want to be falling for their dirty tricks. The scientists work on the crunch factor as well as the taste so my GF advised me to start eating raw organic carrot to replace these potato chips because it's crunchy. That worked.

I read a very good book called 'The Glucose Revolution'. There's a lot to it, but the short version is - it's about lowering glucose spikes. And the main method is the order you eat - fibre first, protein/fat second, carbs last. It's interesting but I just took one thing from it - the first thing I eat each day is a big plate of salad, raw veg and fermented sauerkraut. And whenever possible I eat fibre before a meal. This may lower my spikes but the main benefit for me has been to fill myself with low calorie and healthy veg/salad which makes it easier to have less of the other higher calorie food in my meals.

Sorry for the TL;DR.....as you can see, the plan has been to implement a lot of stuff together, much of which I practiced for a while - small tweaks compounding into big changes over time. Well done on the healthy diet mate.