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Eating at night

ferd_ttp5
ferd_ttp5 Posts: 246 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Does eating at night cause weight gain? Example i eat my dinner for tonight and i sleep 2 hours after my dinner and it does not past 3 hours up so it will be more digest.

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Only if you eat in a surplus for the day. Your digestive system doesn't stop working when you go to sleep.
  • clicketykeys
    clicketykeys Posts: 6,610 Member
    What time of day you eat doesn't matter; what matters is what you eat, and how much.
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    No it doesn't - eating too much (at any time of the day or night, causes weight gain).

    I regularly have a 500 cal snack right before bed with no weight gain issues whatsoever, because I make it fit into my allotted calories.
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