Dr. Kashey believes that utilizing structured patterns for when to eat your meals is a surefire way to combat overeating and unnecessary craving, which is the second most important step in Dr. Kashey’s Hierarchy of Constructive Eating. While this is the proper path to growing your eating competence, Dr. Kashey acknowledges that sticking to this concept by the book is likely to be difficult in practice, especially with concepts like The Paycheck Phenomenon robbing us of our ability to govern our mealtimes. With this understanding in mind, Dr. Kashey introduces an easy-to-follow, natural, and even automatic method to get your mind on board with nutrient timing and proper meal patterns: the Milestone Method of Meal Planning. Through this method, Dr. Kashey reminds us that incorporating new eating habits and patterns into our lives doesn’t have to be a process that is “out of the way”-- it can be intertwined with our own routines, creating that positive feedback loop we all need to master the management of our own nutrition.