Eating after 6pm?
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That is everything I hoped it would be. Thank you.4 -
I think this idea comes from the fact that some people experience sleep difficulties when eating too close to their bed time. Hence it isn't a good idea to eat latter in the evening. If eating later in the evening doesn't affect your ability to sleep, leave you feeling super hungry in the afternoon, or make you under or over full before your next meal, there is no reason not to eat after 6pm assuming that is a convenient time for you to eat.0
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I have a bowl of cereal (right now its fruit loops) as I sit in bed at night - last thing I do before I go to sleep - been sleeping like the dead since I started doing that2
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VintageFeline wrote: »Myth. Meal timing makes no difference. Calories are what matter. Unless you get heartburn or something eating too close to bedtime but otherwise, total nonsense.
This is right on. What matters is that at the end of the day you're at your calorie target1 -
Eating too late in the evening is only an issue for my acid reflux at night. It has never affected my weight loss.1
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I eat dinner, every night, after 8PM. No issues with it for me. My day pans out like this...
9AM Breakfast
11AM almonds
noon to 1 - Lunch
5PM Hummus and vegetables
8PM Dinner0 -
9:30 and I just finished dinner. Six nights a week I never eat dinner before 7. It's never affected my weight loss one bit.2
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Ridiculous. What about people who work? They should just never eat dinner? This nonsense is for people with too much free time on their hands. Eat whenever you want - just stay within calories.5
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I eat my last little meal at 7:30. Doesn't hurt a thing. Do what makes sense for you and your schedule.0
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I just finished a brilliant taco salad. 11:40pm here!3
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Myth!
Eat when you want.
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Hey guys?? Is it really totally bad for ya if you eat after 6pm or is it just a myth?? Iv just had cup of soup and weight watchers crisps.
As you've discovered ... it's a myth.
I don't get home from work till 6 pm.
Then I have cottage cheese, raw veggies, and some ryvita crackers.
Then my husband and I go for a long walk or bicycle ride.
Then we have dinner ... that's about 8 pm.
About 9:30 we have "dessert".
About 11 pm, I have a second "dessert".
If I'm still up at 1 am and know I'm going to be up a while longer yet, I'll have a third "dessert".
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I work nights so everything i eat is after 6pm0
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Another thing to think about when you hear these time limits is this ...
Who's 6 pm?
I'm in Australia, on the east side. It will be 6 pm here in 1 hour and 45 minutes. Is that when we should all stop eating? What time will it be where you are in 1 hour and 45 minutes?
Or should we use the Greenwich timeline? Or the International Dateline?
What happens when Daylight Savings comes or goes? Do you need to stop eating at 5 pm for half the year ... or 7 pm?
What happens when you travel? Do you go by your home time zone ... or the one you travel to?6 -
Another thing to think about when you hear these time limits is this ...
Who's 6 pm?
I'm in Australia, on the east side. It will be 6 pm here in 1 hour and 45 minutes. Is that when we should all stop eating? What time will it be where you are in 1 hour and 45 minutes?
Or should we use the Greenwich timeline? Or the International Dateline?
What happens when Daylight Savings comes or goes? Do you need to stop eating at 5 pm for half the year ... or 7 pm?
What happens when you travel? Do you go by your home time zone ... or the one you travel to?
Lol i always laugh at this point. As if your body goes" OH MY GOD ITS 6PM MUST SHUT DOWN METABOLISM!" lmao. time of day is a human creation. Your body doesn't give a *kitten* about time its just hungry XD3 -
I think the logic of restricting eating after 6pm is a lot of people tend to snack/overeat/binge later in the evening. It could be because you're typically at home so you are relaxing and the fridge is a way too short walk away, whereas during the day you're often out and not necessarily conveniently near snack food. Like, if I'm not careful I can have a bowl of popcorn with cheese while watching a movie and a glass of wine or two and then maybe some chocolate and boom--way over my calorie limit.
But it's not that eating after 6pm is *bad* inherently, especially if you have self control and don't tend to nighttime binge. I try not to eat after 8 if I can help it, simply because I don't trust myself one bit1 -
I have my main meal very late most weekdays because of my partner's job. around 11pm, often. For me, the issue with it is that I get hungry earlier, so need a snack early evening.
When I've got things under control, like now, I budget for that in my calorie allowance, but it is probably one of the things that led to creeping weight gain in the first place.0 -
Another thing to think about when you hear these time limits is this ...
Who's 6 pm?
I'm in Australia, on the east side. It will be 6 pm here in 1 hour and 45 minutes. Is that when we should all stop eating? What time will it be where you are in 1 hour and 45 minutes?
Or should we use the Greenwich timeline? Or the International Dateline?
What happens when Daylight Savings comes or goes? Do you need to stop eating at 5 pm for half the year ... or 7 pm?
What happens when you travel? Do you go by your home time zone ... or the one you travel to?
Hell yeah, I'd be in trouble. I'm on the west coast of Aus but travelling to the east coast next week. There is a time difference plus daylight saving on the east coast but not at home. If I stop eating at 6pm Sydney time, that's only 3pm in my home time. That's really not going to work for me!
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Now for most people, coffee after 6 pm, likely a bad idea. Not for calories but for disrupting sleep. (Note: does not apply to people who work late shifts or people with ADHD.)0
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I rarely eat after 6 pm, but that's because that's what I'm used to. I did this before weight loss and I do this during weight loss, and I will likely continue doing it after weight loss. It has not magically stop me from reaching 300 pounds because I still ate too much food before 6pm back then. Eat whenever you are used to eating, but if not eating after 6 helps make dieting easier for you then do that. Anything else you might have heard is either useless noise or not significant enough to bother.2
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