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Drawbacks of night time eating

ruthejp13
ruthejp13 Posts: 213 Member
edited February 22 in Health and Weight Loss
I eat fairly healthy and within a good low calorie range. My problem is sometimes I'm under calories after dinner. How bad is night time eating if you stay in your calorie goals. Am I better off going under my calories or eating just before going to bed? If I meet my calorie goals at dinner, I end up going over after dinner. (If you look at my diary, I'm on vacation this week for my husband's birthday.)

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  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    not the tiniest bit bad.
  • ravenmiss
    ravenmiss Posts: 384 Member
    Nothing bad about it at all, your body can't tell the time!
  • psych101
    psych101 Posts: 1,842 Member
    Timing is irrelevant - I'd eat icecream...but that's just me :flowerforyou:
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    Nothing about it is bad. if your hungry, eat!! No matter what time it is!!
  • ruthejp13
    ruthejp13 Posts: 213 Member
    Wow, no controversy!
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    nope nothing bad about it...I eat at night all the time..specifically a cadbury milk chocolate bar...every night....(I know right)

    My husband does shift work and does 2 days 2nights and he eats from 6pm to 6am and maintains quite well...

    the only thing that will hurt weight loss is going over calories consistently regardless of the time.
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