What time do you try to stop eating by?
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I typically eat breakfast during the week around 7 and on the weekends whenever I wake up, and dinner is usually between 5-6:30, depending on if I have school that night, and that's usually it for me.0
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I don't believe there is any special weight loss magic to it but I usually stop eating by 7 pm at the latest and eat again at 7 am.
Maybe once a week I'll eat a snack at 9 pm because I had a dinner that was too light or got in a lot of extra exercise.
Usually I eat dinner early around 5-6 and then brush/floss by 7 so that's when I stop eating.2 -
Jessicalaing2012 wrote: »We typically have dinner around 5:30/6pm. Than I'll normally have a snack around 7:30-8. Sometimes if I still have calories left or if I'm up late with my 3 month old I'll want to snack again around 9-9:30. I try to make the 8pm my cut off & not eat after that. Is it really bad to eat late like that? I try not to eat anything too heavy during the late times. Thanks! **I am exclusively breastfeeding so I'm adding those extra calories daily**
There's nothing magical about having a cutoff time...your body is working 24/7. I eat dinner most nights around 8:30...sometimes 9. There's nothing "bad" about eating late unless it causes you digestive distress.1 -
Start eating about 7-8 am
Stop eating around 3 am
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If nothing alters my regular routine I stop eating at 7pm, right after dinner. This is mainly because anything eaten after this time tends to be a poor choice and eliminating the time instead of the food is easier for me. If dinner is later for some reason I’ll work around it.
I also find that I sleep better and get a better start the next day by aiming for 11-12 hours between last and first meal.
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I have a question for those who have a strict cutoff time: 8 PM, sundown, whatever.
How do you deal with situations where you can't fit your last meal in by that time? Say you have a meeting to attend after work, and it runs late, and now it's past your cutoff? Or you're working on a special project and can't take a break to eat before that time?
Do you skip it and go hungry? Do you avoid getting in those situations? Do you keep an emergency granola bar with you?
As an unabashed late eater, I look forward to enjoying my evening meal after the chaos has passed. I wouldn't be very happy with a strict, arbitrary time that messed up my schedule. But this is an obvious example where "everyone is different."0 -
I have a question for those who have a strict cutoff time: 8 PM, sundown, whatever.
How do you deal with situations where you can't fit your last meal in by that time? Say you have a meeting to attend after work, and it runs late, and now it's past your cutoff? Or you're working on a special project and can't take a break to eat before that time?
Do you skip it and go hungry? Do you avoid getting in those situations? Do you keep an emergency granola bar with you?
As an unabashed late eater, I look forward to enjoying my evening meal after the chaos has passed. I wouldn't be very happy with a strict, arbitrary time that messed up my schedule. But this is an obvious example where "everyone is different."
If those people eat after a certain time I’m pretty sure they turn into Gremlins 😂2 -
I have a question for those who have a strict cutoff time: 8 PM, sundown, whatever.
How do you deal with situations where you can't fit your last meal in by that time? Say you have a meeting to attend after work, and it runs late, and now it's past your cutoff? Or you're working on a special project and can't take a break to eat before that time?
Do you skip it and go hungry? Do you avoid getting in those situations? Do you keep an emergency granola bar with you?
As an unabashed late eater, I look forward to enjoying my evening meal after the chaos has passed. I wouldn't be very happy with a strict, arbitrary time that messed up my schedule. But this is an obvious example where "everyone is different."
My eating window is noon to 7 pm. I do achieve this on most days; however, I dispense with it easily and quickly when it doesn't fit. Last night I was out with some friends at a new-ish joint called Coopers Hawk and we were eating and drinking late. I went well over on my cals and way over on the 7 pm cutoff. But today I'm back on track.
@NovusDies talks about being on track "most of the time" or roughly 80 %, and I've adopted the same idea. "Most of the time" is good enough to get the job done with any aspect of dieting, so that's what I go with.
Time restricted eating exists to make my weight loss effort easier; during times when it'd make things harder, I don't do it. I don't want to fight with my diet, so I make it fit my needs.
This is not to be confused with "I do time restricted eating except when I don't feel like it". The only time I eat after 7 pm is for a social engagement or the very rare popcorn for a movie at night. I don't take the eating window casually - if I did, it'd completely crash and burn. But I don't let it get in the way of living my life.
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I never eat later than 7pm then I’m in bed by 10pm & up at 6am for work & won’t eat until 9am them 14 hours of not eating have got me into a good routine so far for me anyway.2
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I eat right up until I go to bed sometimes. Meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss.3
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circadian rhythm - lots of studies on the benefits of eating with your circadian rhythm and why when you eat does matter.3
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peggy_polenta wrote: »circadian rhythm - lots of studies on the benefits of eating with your circadian rhythm and why when you eat does matter.
Correct. I put links to seven of them here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10782402/if-a-calorie-is-a-calorie-why-do-we-see-this/p10 -
Timing of eating is unimportant related to weight. That said, I typically don't eat/snack after dinner.1
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peggy_polenta wrote: »circadian rhythm - lots of studies on the benefits of eating with your circadian rhythm and why when you eat does matter.
Can you explain what this means? I don't eat when I'm asleep so I've got that going for me
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I often go out and return home at approximately 9:00 pm. Will definitely eat something after that time, as I rarely get to bed before 11:00 pm.0
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I have a strict rule of only eating while I'm awake.4
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peggy_polenta wrote: »circadian rhythm - lots of studies on the benefits of eating with your circadian rhythm and why when you eat does matter.
But not for weight management, unless it is helpful to the individual. There is preliminary evidence that disrupting the circadian clock increases heart disease risk (one of the reasons why shift workers tend to have more heart disease incidents), and eating is one of those things that may affect circadian rhythm among other things.
The problem is that this is a narrow way of looking at it. Obesity is the leading cause of heart disease, so making unsustainable choices that may help reduce disease on paper may not reduce disease in reality. You will want to stack the cards in your favor to lose weight first and foremost, then consider if making other changes would be practically viable. Making random "good for you" changes without considering how it would affect weight management is an exercise in futility.2 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »peggy_polenta wrote: »circadian rhythm - lots of studies on the benefits of eating with your circadian rhythm and why when you eat does matter.
But not for weight management, unless it is helpful to the individual. There is preliminary evidence that disrupting the circadian clock increases heart disease risk (one of the reasons why shift workers tend to have more heart disease incidents), and eating is one of those things that may affect circadian rhythm among other things.
The problem is that this is a narrow way of looking at it. Obesity is the leading cause of heart disease, so making unsustainable choices that may help reduce disease on paper may not reduce disease in reality. You will want to stack the cards in your favor to lose weight first and foremost, then consider if making other changes would be practically viable. Making random "good for you" changes without considering how it would affect weight management is an exercise in futility.
I have had that same conversation with several people since I started dieting. Yes there are many things one can do to tweak and fine-tune one's choices in food, sleep habits, and so on, but when you're obese, reducing the risk of heart disease and postponing your mortality boils down to this:
1. Lose weight
2. Everything else2 -
When I've had as many calories as I want to have for the day.
Sometimes that's relatively early (6 PM), sometimes it's right before bed.
Weight loss is determined by how many calories you're consuming relative to what your body is using, not when you eat them.2 -
4pm...not related to weight loss - I just don't eat again after dinner at 4.
Related to this, was on vacation recently where dinner was closer to 7-8pm and I found it so uncomfortable going to bed on a full stomach. It always amazes me to hear people eating at 8, 9, 10pm - but I know others think I'm crazy for not eating after 4. totally an individual thing.2
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