Will you gain weight if you eat before sleeping?

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  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member

    Well, I make language jokes all the time - the goldmember thing is funny (There is a movie by that title) - and I speak a few languages (English is my second, German my fourth and throw in a few others) but I wasn't making fun of YOU. Typos are funny.

    I think you brought in your doc's education as "proof of truth". She's just a doc and doesn't have "la science infuse".

    No, I brought up my doctors education because someone in this tread started making jokes about her credentials. And aaaaaall that is because my diet plan prescribed by this doctor conflicts with whatever they've read in this forum.

    Yeah, she's just a doctor but she's specialized in weight loss and has been successfully working in the weightloss for decades. Therefore, I'm sorry but in my eyes she has more authority than someone online. If you don't mind, I'll keep following the diet she prescribed me. :)

    A doctor specializes in weight loss? lolwut? There is not much to the laws of thermodynamics?

    You have been commenting on my posts for a while, young man. I've noticed you, don't worry. No need to try too hard :)

    If you don't have evidence, argue credentials, if you don't have credentials rely on personal attacks. Good for rhetoric, but not so good for the reasoned discussion of science, or much else for that matter.
  • NinjadURbacon
    NinjadURbacon Posts: 395 Member

    Well, I make language jokes all the time - the goldmember thing is funny (There is a movie by that title) - and I speak a few languages (English is my second, German my fourth and throw in a few others) but I wasn't making fun of YOU. Typos are funny.

    I think you brought in your doc's education as "proof of truth". She's just a doc and doesn't have "la science infuse".

    No, I brought up my doctors education because someone in this tread started making jokes about her credentials. And aaaaaall that is because my diet plan prescribed by this doctor conflicts with whatever they've read in this forum.

    Yeah, she's just a doctor but she's specialized in weight loss and has been successfully working in the weightloss for decades. Therefore, I'm sorry but in my eyes she has more authority than someone online. If you don't mind, I'll keep following the diet she prescribed me. :)

    sounds like she is blowing stuff out of proportion. So if she said never eat solid food only liquid and drink only water and you will surely lose weight then you would follow blindly?

    From what I read you follow her "do not eat after a certain time". Sounds like that is just being more strict then need to be done. But there has been plenty of evidence that if it doesn't matter like Steel pointed out. I am not saying what she says doesn't work, it is just that she is making you do something that is not necessary for success.
  • myfitnesspaller
    myfitnesspaller Posts: 74 Member
    so....no!
  • MrsDestanyRodriguez
    MrsDestanyRodriguez Posts: 11 Member
    I always have a "snack" before bed it wont affect your weight loss its not bad as long as you dont go over your calories but i do allways have my "snack" before midnight because after midnight i consider it a new day for food logging!
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    I always have a "snack" before bed it wont affect your weight loss its not bad as long as you dont go over your calories but i do allways have my "snack" before midnight because after midnight i consider it a new day for food logging!

    this.
  • Chadomaniac
    Chadomaniac Posts: 1,785 Member
    NO

    Not if you in a deficit no more discussion NO MORE!!
  • Chadomaniac
    Chadomaniac Posts: 1,785 Member
    But isnt is true because you're not burning anything or doing anything physical and the body stores the food as fat?

    no...

    and your body is still breathing, conducting organ function etc while you sleep and this takes energy, i.e. calories to do ...

    Many people think your body just stops working when you sleep .

    People the body is ALWAYS burning calories unless you are dead!!
  • ambergaelle
    ambergaelle Posts: 6 Member
    This is the most entertaining thread on this forum.
    i think the main reason i gained weight so quick in the past was because i suffer major insomnia and usually ended up binging at night.
    Since on clean food/calorie deficit, i continue to get my most intense cravings at night, like, LATE at night.
    I always keep enough calories in my "budget" to have a healthy snack before bed so i dont feel full nor famished... not eating before bed usually results in an obsession in my cravings that keeps me from sleeping.
    Also i get those really vivid dreams about waffles! haha. (wish i was joking!)
    my weight loss has been very stable over the last month since i started... about 1-2lbs a week depending if i get my butt to the gym that week... it would make total sense to me that the time you eat does not factor in your weight loss as long as you are at deficit given your BMR is an indicator for a 24hr period that includes sleep.
    Some food are potentially not really good for your quality of sleep though.
    thats my 2 cents...
  • LeanneGoingThin
    LeanneGoingThin Posts: 215 Member
    Meal timing doesn't matter. Calories do. You won't gain weight from eating before bedtime if you are in a deficit.
  • Mischievous_Rascal
    Mischievous_Rascal Posts: 1,791 Member
    You actually burn more calories while you are sleeping than you do exercising. I usually burn around 800 calories while sleeping, but only 300 in an exercise session.

    It does NOT matter *when* you eat your calories as long as you are in a deficit for the day under your TDEE. The calorie deficit is what matters, not when you eat.

    how did you measure your calories burnt during sleep?

    Probably with an HRM.

    thats crazy..that would mean the person would have to sleep with the strap on then..

    it would be interesting to see if a person burns more calories if theyre tired...or days where youve burnt more vs days less (while asleep)..interesting topic to research.

    I have a fitbit that I wear to bed. It tracks my sleeping patterns and shows me my calories burned while sleeping.

    OP, the answer is no. I do IF and can eat quite a lot right before sleep.
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    You don't actually gain weight while sleeping. What happens is the calories (who are in fact little elves) come in when you are asleep and adjust your clothing so that your clothes feel tighter. They also play with the settings on your scales which is why some days you gain weight and others you lose it. Hope that clarification helps
  • lightmouse
    lightmouse Posts: 175 Member
    I always eat before bed if I haven't hit my macros for the day, usually when I've had a busy shift. It has not hurt me. Besides I can't sleep when I'm hungry! :smile:
  • staveshabr
    staveshabr Posts: 74 Member
    read later
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    But isnt is true because you're not burning anything or doing anything physical and the body stores the food as fat?
    If you aren't burning calories, then you're probably dead. Over consumption is why people get fat.

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