What time do you stop eating each night and go to sleep every night?
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Christine_72 wrote: »
Me neither. I get up between 5-6am, but my legs don't start working properly til around 9, i shuffle about til then.
I feel like I'm getting old! lol (Well, at least until I've had my morning coffee and breakfast... and shower...lol)0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »As a side note, I've always personally wondered how people manage to eat dinner at 5 or 6 or whatever and be done eating for the day...hell, there are a lot of days I don't even leave the office until 6 and then I have an hour commute home...
hahahaa... well, we eat 6-ish weeknights (depends on individual schedules) and later on weekends. I'm done for the day after that. I think all my family members are, too. We go to bed 10-ish. You have kids, don't you? And do they have crazy sports practice schedules? Scheduling around here is like a rubic's cube.
"Scheduling around here is like a rubic's cube.".... haha! I love that!0 -
beachwoman2006 wrote: »Dinner for me can be anywhere between 5:30 and 8:00 (or later sometimes). Bedtime is usually around midnight. I'm retired so I don't have to get up early
I have always had a small snack of some kind about an hour before bedtime. Now, it's usually a graham cracker "plank" and a glass of 2% milk. I got this tip from my mom's doctor. My mom was a brittle diabetic and to ensure that her blood sugar didn't drop during the night, this is the snack he recommended she have about an hour before bedtime.
This is a very smart tip. My mom is diabetic. I should tell her about it too. Thanks!0 -
7:00pm sharp is my cut-off. Nothing but water goes into my system after that.
I aim to be in bed around 10:30-11pm, but usually end up watching an episode of something, so the time I fall asleep is probably around midnight.
When I wake up (~7-7:30am), I'm ravenous, but I get full really quick.
This EXACTLY how I am and what I do before bed. But when I get up in the morning, I'm not really hungry. I've always had the mindset from when I was little that breakfast should be the biggest meal and it's the most important meal of the day. But now that I'm much older, I find this not to be true. So frustrating with meals, sometimes.. lol0 -
I always save calories for a light bed time snack. Settle in bed, eat my snack and read a few pages. Then teeth brushed and lights out. I never sleep on an empty stomach.1
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I eat right up until I shut the lights out to fall asleep. That's about 9:30 at the moment because I get up at 4:50 am1
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Depends on the flow of my day. Typically aim to have my last meal between 7-9pm and go to bed between 10-11pm.1
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Stop at 11:30 pm. Go to sleep at 12:00 or 12:30am.
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fattothinmum wrote: »I always save calories for a light bed time snack. Settle in bed, eat my snack and read a few pages. Then teeth brushed and lights out. I never sleep on an empty stomach.
You eat in bed?1 -
Breakfast 8 AM
Lunch around noon
Snack 3-4 PM
Dinner 6 PM
Snack 8-9 PM usually if I haven't had a snack by 9 PM I'm just not going to want one. It isn't a rule and I've never been bothered if I ate right before sleeping.
Bed 10- midnight
Part of my weight loss occured with dinner being at 8 PM and going to bed even later.
Do what works for your life.1 -
It's 9:15 pm, and I'm just having dinner now.
I'll likely have at least one snack before bed.1 -
During the week I stop eating after dinner, which is around 6 or so. The weekend depends on what I have going on.
In the past I used to eat mindlessly after dinner while watching TV. It was comforting.
Now I turn off the TV, go for a walk and trained myself to eat all of my calories during the day. It has worked extremely well for me.
On my heavy lifting days I might need something small at night and then I will eat, but other then that I really don't get hungry at night anymore.2 -
I have found that eating keeps me from feeling sleepy. I try pretty hard not to eat after 9 PM. I'm usually in bed by midnight though I try for earlier. If I am not paying attention and eat late I could be up until 1 or 2.0
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fattothinmum wrote: »I always save calories for a light bed time snack. Settle in bed, eat my snack and read a few pages. Then teeth brushed and lights out. I never sleep on an empty stomach.
You eat in bed?
I don't eat in bed, can't stand crumbs in there.
I don't know how people hold out for dinner till 7pm or later. I'd end up snacking until dinner cos I'd be so hungry, and end up going over my calories!
Plus i like getting the cooking and dishes out of the way asap so i can relax for the rest of the evening. Stuffing about in the kitchen at 8 at night, no thanks!
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I'm eating ice cream in bed.4
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How do you 5am risers actually throw the covers off and put your feet on the ground that early?! Impressive!2
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PatFanPete wrote: »How do you 5am risers actually throw the covers off and put your feet on the ground that early?! Impressive!
I don't have a choice. And I make the coffee at 41 -
Christine_72 wrote: »fattothinmum wrote: »I always save calories for a light bed time snack. Settle in bed, eat my snack and read a few pages. Then teeth brushed and lights out. I never sleep on an empty stomach.
You eat in bed?
I don't eat in bed, can't stand crumbs in there.
I don't know how people hold out for dinner till 7pm or later. I'd end up snacking until dinner cos I'd be so hungry, and end up going over my calories!
Plus i like getting the cooking and dishes out of the way asap so i can relax for the rest of the evening. Stuffing about in the kitchen at 8 at night, no thanks!
We had dinner at 8 pm in our house for a few years so we could eat as a family. My dh wasn't getting home from work and school until that late. That was the only family time we had. I did have a snack earlier in the evening. I left dishes for morning. I loved the slow cooker and big pots of soup that I could prepare early and keep warm.
I prefer to eat at 6 pm but IME you can get used to eating later if you have a good reason.1 -
I have dinner at 7pm and in bed at 10.30pm
I'm one of those people that MUST have at least 8hrs sleep a night or I don't function. I wake up for work at 7.30am for an 8.30am start and I'm home at 5.30, mon to fri.1 -
Snack or dessert about 30min or less before bed (usually 9:30). Then sometimes I eat in the middle of the night if I am starving. I'm pretty much always eating, hahha0
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Christine_72 wrote: »fattothinmum wrote: »I always save calories for a light bed time snack. Settle in bed, eat my snack and read a few pages. Then teeth brushed and lights out. I never sleep on an empty stomach.
You eat in bed?
I don't eat in bed, can't stand crumbs in there.
I don't know how people hold out for dinner till 7pm or later. I'd end up snacking until dinner cos I'd be so hungry, and end up going over my calories!
Plus i like getting the cooking and dishes out of the way asap so i can relax for the rest of the evening. Stuffing about in the kitchen at 8 at night, no thanks!
I'm never home before 8. I'm always surprised at how early many people eat. (I do the 9 or after thing.)1 -
PatFanPete wrote: »How do you 5am risers actually throw the covers off and put your feet on the ground that early?! Impressive!
I naturally wake up at 5 -- don't even set an alarm. It just started happening in my mid to late 30s, not sure why.0 -
If it were up to me, we would eat later, but the kids are always starving by the time 5:00 rolls around. So I try to hold off until like 5:30 or 6pm for them to eat dinner, but usually that's the latest. My bf doesn't usually get home until around 8pm, so I usually run him some dinner since he's only 10 min away.
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Christine_72 wrote: »fattothinmum wrote: »I always save calories for a light bed time snack. Settle in bed, eat my snack and read a few pages. Then teeth brushed and lights out. I never sleep on an empty stomach.
You eat in bed?
I don't eat in bed, can't stand crumbs in there.
I don't know how people hold out for dinner till 7pm or later. I'd end up snacking until dinner cos I'd be so hungry, and end up going over my calories!
Plus i like getting the cooking and dishes out of the way asap so i can relax for the rest of the evening. Stuffing about in the kitchen at 8 at night, no thanks!
I wake up for work at 4:45. Don't eat breakfast until my lunch break (10-10:30). Have lunch when I get home at 3. Then I'm good until dinner. On my off days or days I work earlier I'll probably eat lunch between 1 and 2, then have a snack around 4.1 -
Last night I ate dinner about 8:15 and went straight to bed after.0
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