Does eating certain foods at certain mealtimes affect weight loss?

immahappyhappyhorse
immahappyhappyhorse Posts: 12 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been wondering about this for a while. Does eating certain foods at certain timings in the day affect weight loss? For example, will weight loss be affected if I eat oatmeal for dinner instead of breakfast? What difference does it make to switch around the foods I eat at certain mealtimes?

Currently I'm eating chicken / eggs with broccoli, cauliflower and assorted vegetables for breakfast and lunch, and a yogurt fruit salad for dinner. It changes around a bit, sometimes I add in rice when there's rice available, different veges, oatmeal, but I tend to have the "breakfast" foods for dinner and the "dinner" foods for breakfast.

I'm curious as to whether this affects weight loss since many sites are pushing that there's a better timing to eat certain foods.

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  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,128 Member
    Nope makes no difference.
  • LifeWithPie
    LifeWithPie Posts: 552 Member
    No
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    nope
  • ladyhusker39
    ladyhusker39 Posts: 1,406 Member
    Makes no difference. Don't over complicate the process.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    No
  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    immahappyhappyhorse wrote: »

    I'm curious as to whether this affects weight loss since many sites are pushing that there's a better timing to eat certain foods.

    I wouldn't be surprised if these sites are either selling something or wanting subscribers to their meal plan. Something that involves you paying for something.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    No. Food is food.
  • Sharon_C
    Sharon_C Posts: 2,132 Member
    No
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    Meal timing or composition doesn’t matter to weight loss. It could, however, make a difference to your temporary scale weight, which I think is at the root of a lot of these weight loss myths. Eating a larger than usual meal late in the day, or late night snacking, does not lead to additional fat storage, but it certainly could lead to a jump on the scale because that food may still be moving through your digestive system the next time you weigh yourself. Salty foods (even ones that don’t taste salty, like many restaurant meals) can lead to water retention. You have to understand that the scale measures everything, but our concern isn’t water or food waste, it’s fat, and fat gain or loss is a longer process than just meal to meal.

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