Do you stop eating after a certain time?

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Shelley6591
Shelley6591 Posts: 156 Member
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I know I've always been told you should stop eating after 7 or 8 pm just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on that theory. Typically by then I'm at my calorie limit but sometimes I'm not, wondering if there is any sense in pushing myself to eat before a certain time or if I'm within my daily limit it's fine?

Thanks :)
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  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
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    Calories cant tell the time......... : )

    If your hungry.. Eat ... : )

    I eat at all silly hours ... If your body is needing food, fuel it!!
  • SugaryLynx
    SugaryLynx Posts: 2,640 Member
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    I eat whenever I want. Meal timing is purely down to personal adherence. Do what makes you feel best. Your body doesn't care what time of the day it's being fed. I love my evening snacks :)
  • sarafischbach9
    sarafischbach9 Posts: 466 Member
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    Hi, you can eat whenever you want, just as long as you are within your calorie goals in the 24 hour period. I try not to eat right before bed, UNLESS I ABSOLUTELY have to, but that is not because of weight gain or weight loss. I worry about digestion if I eat a big meal before bed.
  • Spiderkeys
    Spiderkeys Posts: 338 Member
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    For the last 6 months I fast after 6pm, it usually after my biggest meal dinner, I just think it's deadly going to bed with a full stomach.
  • tomwatso
    tomwatso Posts: 1,304 Member
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    I try to not eat after 7:00 pm.
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
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    I try not to eat again after I lay down for bed, but honestly I get up sometimes and have a small snack. No sense going to bed hungry, I will just wake up grumbly.
  • sfbaumgarten
    sfbaumgarten Posts: 912 Member
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    No, I eat whenever I want... I'm a notorious nighttime snacker.
  • karllundy
    karllundy Posts: 1,490 Member
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    Nope. I had always heard this as well, but I eat 50-60% of my calories for the day between 6-10 p.m. before I go to bed. I have lost almost 100 lbs doing so.
  • irisheyez718
    irisheyez718 Posts: 677 Member
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    I eat dinner around 8 PM, have a snack at midnight, and then go to bed. So, I guess its when I'm sleeping :)
  • Lrdoflamancha
    Lrdoflamancha Posts: 1,280 Member
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    Many different opinions about this here. I recently read about a small study that showed, generally thin people tend to stop eating by 8 PM. I have a major problem eating at night so I have recently stopped eating at 8. So far I do not see any difference.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,012 Member
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    Once I go to sleep. I always stop eating once I am asleep.
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
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    I normally stop when I'm asleep because I'd choke
  • erialcelyob
    erialcelyob Posts: 341 Member
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    I eat whenever I want food, think about it, your body is already fasting right through the night so why make that begin earlier?
  • birdiecs
    birdiecs Posts: 237 Member
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    No I eat a lot of calories in the evening. My appetite doesn't usually kick in until afternoon-evening. Has not affected my weight loss as far as I can tell.
  • dont_tap_my_aces
    dont_tap_my_aces Posts: 125 Member
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    I follow IF... so i don't break the fast until noon and stop eating by 8. i've read a little evidence that the fast helps boost hormone levels that facilitate fat energy use, but not enough of a change over a normal eating diet to make me switch. I do it instead because i've never liked eating breakfast, and enjoy getting all my daily calories in 2 large meals rather than smaller more frequent meals.

    honestly it doesn't matter when you consume calories. Even if you do so right before bed, the body doesn't just stop metabolism because you are asleep. if you are alive, you're burning fuel at some level.
  • in_the_stars
    in_the_stars Posts: 1,395 Member
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    No.
    I eat when I'm hungry... and drink when I'm dry.

    Lately my largest meals are breakfast and lunch. If I wake in the middle of the night I eat peanut butter toast and drink milk. :)
  • auzziecawth66
    auzziecawth66 Posts: 479 Member
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    I have before (not currently now) done that. I wouldn't eat anything after 6 so after supper I was done, really cut down on my night time habit of snacking out of boredom.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
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    I stop eating when I'm out of calories.
  • njitaliana
    njitaliana Posts: 814 Member
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    I see a GI doc. He said that eating close to bedtime can cause acid reflux. He said the pressure of the food in the esophagus can actually break the valve that separates the stomach and esophagus, allowing the food to sit in the esophagus all night. He said the acid churning in the esophagus and throat all night while in a lying position can eventually cause cancer.

    So, yes, I have my evening snack at 8 PM and then don't eat anything else. I go up to bed about 11 or 12 PM, as the GI specialist said to stop eating 3 to 4 hours before bedtime.

    I don't know if eating at night really affects weight any more than eating in the day time, but we aren't active at night, so the food doesn't digest quickly like it does in the daytime, especially if it's sitting in the esophagus all night instead of reaching the stomach and bowels and digesting.
  • EvenThatNameIsTaken
    EvenThatNameIsTaken Posts: 164 Member
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    i like my midnight snacks and i have no intention of ditching them as long as they fit into my calories/macros. i find it too restrictive to try to cut off eating at a certain point, and i have one of those personalities where often if i try to tell myself *not* to do something, something in me will conspire to do it!

    edited to add, i do try to wait at least 30 min before going to bed so the food can start digesting a bit. usually more like an hour.

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