Are you vulnerable to uncontrollable snacking?

The Wall Street Journal's email update, summarizes a recent article by Melinda Beck, as follows:

Growing evidence suggests that with weight loss, it's not how much or what you
eat, but when you eat it that matters. Restructuring eating habits can stave off
the late-day cravings that make us vulnerable to uncontrollable snacking.

This article and the "growing evidence" it catalogs should hopefully shed some light on the greater problem of uncontrollable snacking. Of course, the article summary is slightly confusing. If it is not the quantity or substance of the food that I eat which determines my weight loss ability, then why would uncontrollable snacking be something to avoid. If how much I eat and what I eat truly do not matter, and only when I eat matters, then couldn't I eat two pizza every day and still lose weight, as long as I eat them at the right time - satisfying the dispositive when category.

If when we eat is all that matters, then couldn't I eat donuts and ice cream at all of my meals? If I ate a pint of ice cream and four donuts at every meal that was properly timed to help me lose weight, I would probably feel sick and not find myself susceptible to uncontrollable snacking. In fact, I am sold on this idea. It is not what I eat or how much of it that has made me overweight. Instead, it is my lack of timing and my difficulty in conceptualizing time that has packed the weight on my midsection. If I wore my watch more, I would be skinnier. Maybe all the fussing with day-light savings time is wreaking havoc on my BMI as well?