What time do u stop eating ?

Lounmoun

malibu927 wrote: »

Lounmoun wrote: »

I don't think it matters what time you eat but I wouldn't eat a large heavy meal just before going to bed. I think a small snack is fine though.
I have dinner at 7 pm and got to bed around midnight or 1am.

Thursday nights I eat dinner (usually fast food) around 9:30 and go to bed at 11. Never had a problem.

Good for you?
Not sure why you quoted me.
I did use the word I in my post instead of you, no one, or everyone. I spoke of my personal choice and what works best for me. (Mainly because of sleep problems) I also stated that I don't think the time you eat matters.

Have some fast food jumbo meal right before bed. I'll stick to a lighter snack. We'll both be fine I'm sure.

Jruzer

freeoscar wrote: »

I was listening to The Gist podcast on Slate yesterday and they were discussing this study (have to pay for more than the abstract). The results of the study are that timing DOES in fact matter in weight loss. But it's not absolute (as in, eat by 7pm), but more as it aligns to your individual body clock (circadian timing).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19730426

This was an interesting link. Thanks for posting this. It's from 2009 so there may have been more developments on this front since that time.

It was a study done on a relatively small number of mice. They found that the mice that were fed during their "active" phase gained less weight than those who were fed during their "inactive" phase. They found that the mice fed when they were "inactive" had slightly lower levels of activity and ate slightly more.

jgnatca

Keep in mind that some disorders turns all this advice on it's head. For instance, when I was diabetic my highest sugar numbers were the fasting number before breakfast. I was advised to try a bedtime snack with some protein in it, to keep my overenthusiastic liver from flooding my system with sugar I didn't need. Diabetics need to keep it all in balance. Now with diabetes in remission, I might have a snack early in the evening especially if I did not hit my calorie target. Otherwise I might not have anything after supper.

kitkatkarr

usually at 5

jnv7594

neekmichelle922 wrote: »

I heard 7pm even tho I know it's all about calories burned vs calories taken in but it's not good to have food sitting in ur stomach alll night right ?

I always eat late. If I don't, I get hungry before bed. Sometimes I don't even have supper until about 9 p.m. or so, and I'm usually asleep a couple hours later. Honestly, for me, it doesn't matter how late I eat. I've still managed to lose over forty pounds and have a late supper pretty much every night. And if it's not a late supper, then it's a snack. I don't buy into the not eating before bed, but that's just me. As long as you stay within your calories for the day, it shouldn't matter when you eat.

ythannah

Two hours before bed. Only because I take a medication at bedtime that needs an empty stomach.