One study showed that overweight and obese women lost more weight when they consumed the majority of their calories at breakfast time, compared to those who ate most in the evening, even though they were eating the same total number of calories.
Another small study by researchers in the UK found that reducing the amount of time between your first and last meal of the day may lead you to eat fewer calories overall. When healthy but slightly overweight adults delayed their first meal of the day by 1.5 hours and ate their last meal 90 minutes earlier than normal, their energy intake was lower and they saw a drop in body fat compared to a control group, even though they had access to the same amount of food.