No eating after 6pm
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MelWick524 wrote: »callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »Last night, at 11pm, I ate a brownie, a serving of beef jerky, some chips, and 5 marshmallow Peeps. I'm losing weight just fine. I've been slim and I've been obese, there was never a time when I didn't eat at night.
Skinny people are skinny because they don't overeat; timing of meals means nothing. People like to point to reasons X Y and Z for why skinny people are skinny, but the truth is, people are skinny because they don't eat as much as fat people, and they move more. Period. There's no other factor to the equation, at least not for the general population. That skinny guy at your work who you watch eating two burgers and fries every day for lunch, he doesn't have a "fast metabolism", he doesn't eat 17 Big Macs as long as it's not after 7pm, he just eats less overall and moves more than someone who eats the same lunch but is overweight.
i will disagree with this. I have known many skinny people who ate like pigs and barely moved more than a sloth. perhaps it will come back to bite them some day, but some people, are naturally skinny (not necessarily HEALTHY, but SKINNY).
^This is my husband. I can't figure it out. He used to have an active job, but now, he doesn't move much all day, but eats like garbage and stays skinny (like...an entire carton of ice cream and a half a box of lucky charms for dinner alone kind of garbage). WTF?! lol @ndj1979, you should start some sort of thread with your thoughts on this. Sometimes you're a little abrasive, but your posts are always insightful and eye-opening!
oh, I have started threads...
some are still going...
others have been locked down..
I have another one coming soon...0 -
cold hard truth like ice cream. mmmmm chocolate0
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I eat at 8:30 pm pretty much every night...I'm a lean, mean machine.
meal timing has pretty much nothing to do with your metabolism and stuff...
Also, I've always wondered how people pull this off anyway...who are these people who can be done with their day, including their dinner by 6...*kitten*, I'm usually still at the office.0 -
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I'm starting to think that it might just matter when you eat - but I also suspect that better/worse times differ per person and I'm certain that we don't know what they are.
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http://jbr.sagepub.com/content/19/5/388.abstract (cellular clocks in organ tissues)0 -
I was chatting with a pensioner down the allotment the other weekend. This chap is skinny and confessed he never had a problem with his weight. He did tell me that he tries to stick to one rule which was never to eat after 6pm. Just wondered if there was any anicdotal evidence associated this rule.
I remember that this was one of the things Oprah did when she was losing weight. I like to get all my meals in by 6 or 6:30. I hate going to bed full and am miserable if I have to eat a late dinner.0 -
I usually eat dinner after 6pm. My only attempt, not too successfully, is to stop eating 3 hours before bedtime because of a reflux issue and my doctor suggested it.0
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I usually eat dinner around 8:00. I'd be miserable if I stopped eating at 6:00, and then I'd be shaky and feeling sick the next morning.0
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I work second shift and rarely get up before noon. I also rarely go to bed before 3am. I eat my last meal of the day around midnight to 1am depending on how hungry I am when I get home from work. As long as I eat less calories than I burn I lose weight. The time you eat really doesn't have an affect on it. Though I have noticed as the day goes on it is harder and harder for me to say no to over eating. So if cutting yourself off at a certain time helps with that than it could be beneficial. I am going to try planning exactly what I am going to eat at the beginning of every day and stick to it. That way I'm not able to consider adding other things to it, or double up on servings. Not sure if it will work but its a plan.0
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wishiwasarunner wrote: »You could look at the intermittent fasting groups. While there is no particular time issues - there are those that try to eat all of their food within a 6-8 hour time span and then eat nothing the remaining hours. This helps them restrict calories (it really is all CICO but how you limit CI without going crazy is why there are so many options) and they believe that once you get closer to your ideal weight, the body resists mobilizing fat stores until there has been a certain number of hours deficit. I don't want to try it - but keep considering. . .
Before I tried 16:8, after eating all my calories for the day, I still thought about snacks I would like to have, but couldn't because there were no calories left. Often times I would give in and eat them anyway. Although I know timing doesn't matter for weight loss, those extra calories were stalling me out.
Now, I eat only in an eight hour window that ends after my last meal of the day. At that time, not only am I out of calories, but I also am not "allowed" to eat more because the 8 hour window is closed. It's a fine distinction and I'm probably not describing it clearly, but it has stopped my night time snacking cold. Also, going 16 hours without eating has gotten me used to disregarding mild hunger signals, so even if I get a little hungry later in the evening, it doesn't cause me to snack.
I don't know about that idea that fat stores resist mobilizing after a certain point. I never heard that one before.0 -
I generally don't eat after 8 or so. In bed at 10. Otherwise I often feel bloated for my early AM run. That's the only reason for me. The only reason it works for me is because It helps me stay within my caloric goal for the day.0
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Yes, of course it is. Meal timing and stopping eating at a specific time can be a help to stop overeating at night.I understand the general principal behind your friend's rule, but think it should be scaled back a bit. In the research I've done around nutrition, avoiding nighttime eating does seem to be a recurring theme. But instead of focusing on not eating at all after a certain time, the idea is more centered around not overeating at night, or saving all of your calories for dinnertime - it's more about proper portioning throughout the entire day.
And here it goes again.The earlier you eat, the more active time you still have left in the day for your body to burn it off, versus eating - say, half - of your day's calories at night, where the next thing you do is go to sleep.
Why wouldn't the body be able to burn off yesterday's calories? Heck, recently I've been burning off excess calories eaten all the way back to 2008!0 -
I only eat after 6pm.0
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I work until 7pm and it takes me another 40 minutes to get home. The vast majority of my calories are eaten after 8pm. I still lose. I won't knock what works for some, but it doesn't mean it works for everyone.0
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I was chatting with a pensioner down the allotment the other weekend. This chap is skinny and confessed he never had a problem with his weight. He did tell me that he tries to stick to one rule which was never to eat after 6pm. Just wondered if there was any anicdotal evidence associated this rule.
Its a myth that not eating after a certain time leads to weight loss.
However, I know many people who don't eat after dinner because all they reach for are things higher in calories that will put them over their calories for the day.0 -
chrisssiex23x wrote: »I dont eat after 7pm. I heard you arent meant to eat 3hrs before bed also.. and have been doing this for over a year and it works for me. If i eat after i find ive gained in the morning..
Guess it works for some but not for others i think. Give it a go hun you have nothing to lose x
But, it's not fat gain, it's just water retention from the extra food or just from the extra food period. Weight naturally fluctuates too.0 -
I was chatting with a pensioner down the allotment the other weekend. This chap is skinny and confessed he never had a problem with his weight. He did tell me that he tries to stick to one rule which was never to eat after 6pm. Just wondered if there was any anicdotal evidence associated this rule.
As a pensioner, I am guessing he is elderly. Many people, as they get older, find it difficult to sleep on a full stomach so I am guessing that he doesn't eat after 6 PM because of that, not for any attempt to maintain a slim physique. This is why restaurants that have senior menus are busiest around 4-5 PM and why programs like meals on wheels delivers the main meal for lunch.
As long as you average fewer calories in than you average calories out, you will lose weight. Average the same and you will maintain.
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chrisssiex23x wrote: »I dont eat after 7pm. I heard you arent meant to eat 3hrs before bed also.. and have been doing this for over a year and it works for me. If i eat after i find ive gained in the morning..
Guess it works for some but not for others i think. Give it a go hun you have nothing to lose x
I have heard the same thing, don't eat within 3 hours before bedtime. I usually hit the sack at 9.30pm so 6.30pm would be my cutoff time. I usually weigh myself first thing in the morning....(well nearly first thing, nature call :-) ) . So excess food added before bed will just sit in the gut right ?
I think this has more to do with issues of acid reflux.0 -
I actually went to a meeting/talk with a circadian rhythm researcher today, and there actually is quite a bit of scientific evidence accumulating that eating more food earlier in the day is better for blood sugar control and weight loss. Still a lot more research is needed, and the most critical thing is to find a plan that you can sustain long-term, so I think it's a tweak to make only if it would work well for you. I do try to stop eating after 7:30 and with what I learned today I'll probably make my breakfast a little larger and my dinner a little smaller.0
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »Last night, at 11pm, I ate a brownie, a serving of beef jerky, some chips, and 5 marshmallow Peeps. I'm losing weight just fine. I've been slim and I've been obese, there was never a time when I didn't eat at night.
Skinny people are skinny because they don't overeat; timing of meals means nothing. People like to point to reasons X Y and Z for why skinny people are skinny, but the truth is, people are skinny because they don't eat as much as fat people, and they move more. Period. There's no other factor to the equation, at least not for the general population. That skinny guy at your work who you watch eating two burgers and fries every day for lunch, he doesn't have a "fast metabolism", he doesn't eat 17 Big Macs as long as it's not after 7pm, he just eats less overall and moves more than someone who eats the same lunch but is overweight.
i will disagree with this. I have known many skinny people who ate like pigs and barely moved more than a sloth. perhaps it will come back to bite them some day, but some people, are naturally skinny (not necessarily HEALTHY, but SKINNY).
If you believe people are naturally skinny, do you also believe they are naturally overweight?
I used to believe this, especially about my adorable stick-thin brother. I told him he can eat a lot because he's so naturally thin, and he said, "No, I'm not. I just burn off what I eat." I also learned that he doesn't eat the loads of calories I thought he did.
I don't believe anyone is naturally fat, skinny, or just right.0 -
TimothyFish wrote: »I expect there is something to it. Most people are active during the day, so they aren't likely to eat mindlessly. After 6pm, many people plop down in front of the TV and eat without much thought of how much they're eating. A person who successfully follows the not after six rule isn't guaranteed to lose weight, but would be cutting out the most dangerous time period.
Please tell me more about this most dangerous time period? I always thought it was the European Colonization of the Americas.
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I like to save some calories for an evening snack. I have trouble falling asleep if I am hungry.0
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What sort of snack do you have in the evening ?0
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GiveMeCoffee wrote: »If this was true... what happens to 3rd shift workers? Or if I travel into a different time zone?
Some people have stomach issues if they eat too close to laying down, other than that no reason not to. I take my nightly dessert into bed with me and fall asleep pretty shortly after consuming it. I will say only bad time to eat is while sleeping it's a safety hazard.
Do you have a family history wherein it may be advised to monitor blood glucose?
If yes, do you check your blood glucose?
The reason I'm asking this is because if you do have family history and if you are not monitoring blood glucose after your this particular meal (bolded above) chances are it has spiked and hence the "feeling" to fall asleep.
These are the biggest symptoms of spiked Blood sugar where in person needs to start moving for some few minutes to regulate it.
However if it doesn't apply to you please ignore.
We'll consider this note may help someone with family history and who wasn't aware.
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I see the merit in it for SOME people.
Lately I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping if I eat too soon before bed, particularly if it includes a lot of carbs. B/c of that, I've made it a rule not to eat after dinner. I don't have a set time b/c I don't eat dinner at the same time every night, but it's usually between 5:30-6:30pm.
However, I only think this should be a rule if you have trouble sleeping after eating OR you tend to go way overboard on calories after dinner. In terms of losing weight, it's obviously CICO and timing doesn't matter. But for some people this might be a way to restrict calories.0 -
OP,
My uncle is like the "pensioner" you mentioned. Lived this lifestyle for as long as I have been walking on this earth or maybe even more. He is 78 years old. Does not eat after 7.00 pm. He is very lean and active.
But he is also a man of fixed regime. He, for last I don't know how many years, has a fixed schedule he follows including what he eats for dinner.
1 banana
a glass of milk
few nuts
some protein.
He rarely uses vehicle. He walks every possible place he can walk to. Of course he lives in a city with best public transportation and well developed walking paths for residents.
At the end of the day I'm understanding he is calorie maintenance because he has barely lost more than 2 pounds or gained 2 pounds.0 -
Cheese is great for helping you sleep. It contains triptophan which makes for very interesting dreams.0 -
My doctor gave me the advice to not eat after 6pm when I was suffering insomnia. It did help quite a bit the brief period I did it. (Not maintainable with my schedule though.)
As for keeping weight off; I discovered that when I stopped snacking very late at night (to conform with my MFP cal intake) I became more familiar with the feeling of "being able to eat and wanting to put food in my mouth but not actually being hungry". The wires used to be crossed in my head so wanting to put food in my mouth was the same as starving. Now I am conscious of the difference and I can step back and ask myself throughout the day, "wait, is this psychological or does my body need food?"
In the end, CICO. I just found in my case it was a helpful exercise in sorting through my interpretation of hunger.0 -
For him it might work.......
As a general rule everyone should follow, this is so full of holes its not even funny:
1. What if you work the night shift, 6 pm could the the same as your 6am, when the heck do you ever eat then
2. I run in the evenings (typically ending after 6), refueling can be an important part of running (or pretty much any exercise really)
3. you get the idea, I don' feel the need to keep going and going and going0
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