Eating after 6:00pm

NovusDies

Karri_Bryant wrote: »

Does anyone have an opinion about eating dinner after 6:00pm.

I set down with a nutritionist at the end of February. I have taken off 63 pounds but in recent I am slowing down on the weight loss. I have gone back over my notes and I keep re-reading where she says to eat before 6:00pm and if I can't then I should just eat a protein bar and count that as my dinner. If I did this I would never eat dinner, most evenings I am just getting dinner started by 6:00pm. Even food prepping and crock-pot cooking, with my work schedule we can't get dinner consumed before 6:pm.

The bold answers everything you needed to know about meal timing and congrats on great success.

If you have slowed down it means your deficit has decreased or you are just going through a period of time where normal body water fluctuations are masking some or all of your fat loss. Have you let MFP recalculate your daily calorie goal every 10 pounds of weight loss or so?

frankiesgirlie

Wow. Reminds me of the saying in the 90s. “Eat after 8:00, you’ll gain weight.” Bologna. My FIRST meal of the day is between 3pm-5pm. I eat up until as late as 10 or 11. Lost weight and now maintaining my weight doing this for years. All about calories in, calories out.

keenest37

I try to save calories for the evening so I don't snack & overeat. It's after midnight & I just had dinner! 😆

NorthCascades

frankiesgirlie wrote: »

Wow. Reminds me of the saying in the 90s. “Eat after 8:00, you’ll gain weight.” Bologna. My FIRST meal of the day is between 3pm-5pm. I eat up until as late as 10 or 11. Lost weight and now maintaining my weight doing this for years. All about calories in, calories out.

I know a skinny guy who works swing shift.

What sayings like that are getting at is a lot of people snack mindlessly and needlessly after dinner. You can probably lose weight by eating fewer snacks, and gain weight by eating more. If you're the type of person who hates numbers and loves simple rules, this might be helpful.* If you're the type of person who likes to understand how things work if they're important to you, eat whenever you like, just stay under your calories.

* I know somebody who lost weight on some dumb diet after not losing weight counting calories. I told him "that's because you weren't willing to break the arbitrary diet rules, but you were willing to break the don't go over your calories rule." He said "yep." I leaned from that.

Machka9

vanityy99 wrote: »

ccrdragon wrote: »

Calories are the only thing that matter in terms of weight loss.

Meal timing can help with compliance/satiety but will not have any effect on weight loss. Your nutritionist is using 'bro science' from the 80's/90's with that recommendation.

What’s bro science?

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chetan131 wrote: »

My Dietician also advised me to move my dinner time from 7-7:30 to 6 pm. There are several reasons for this. I typically go to bed by 9-9:30pm due to early morning shifts. Its well known fact that one must allow enough time for dinner digestion before going to bed. And the advisable gap is about 3 hours. So, check your timings and take decision. Everyone could have different schedule.

yirara

Oh gosh, what would I have to do when going on vacation in a time zone 3 hours away? Eat dinner before 15:00?