We all want to sleep better, enjoy less bloating and have more sustained energy throughout the day – all things intermittent fasting promises. But could the key to overall better wellbeing lie not in skipping breakfast or going hungry all day, but in simply eating dinner slightly earlier? And if dining earlier really is the solution, just how easy it for someone with a job and a social life to revert to childhood tea times? Writer Anna Bartter has been finding out.