Do you set an eating cut off time?

LadyZen

I was wondering if any of you who have succeeded at losing weight has set an eating cut off time at night. Do you stop eating like 2 hours before bedtime? Or not? Just wondering...any tips that I can get would be fantastic:happy: Thanks in advance!!! Have a wonderful 2nd day of summer:flowerforyou:

LadyZen

I was wondering if any of you who have succeeded at losing weight has set an eating cut off time at night. Do you stop eating like 2 hours before bedtime? Or not? Just wondering...any tips that I can get would be fantastic:happy: Thanks in advance!!! Have a wonderful 2nd day of summer:flowerforyou:

bayaderka

I usually try not to eat 3 hours before bed, because I've heard that when you sleep on an empty stomach, in order to rejuvenate and continue with all the functions when sleeping you need energy... but if its not from food your body uses energy from other storages aka fat!!! So basically going to bed 3 hours after eating will put your body in a fat burning mode, depending on how long you'll sleep. I am usually in a "fat burning zone" (sleeping) for 10 hours!

SoupNazi

I've never set a cut off time for myself. I eat dinner pretty early though, like around 5:30 so once in awhile I have a light snack (granola bar or cereal) around 8:30 if I still have extra calories. I can't say that I have ever eaten anything heavy or with a substantial amount of calories before bed, though.

DBranchaud

I usually don't eat after dinner( 5:30 or 6) and I go to bed at about 9 or 9:30. I never really thought about my not eating before bed. I usually don't eat because I try to use up that last of my leftover calories at dinner.

casey34472

I eat nothing after 8pm.

stschulz

Yep, that is one of the things I am struggling with on weekends when I work. I come home after work. Of course I am hungry. Did not use all my calories. I have to eat. But I also have to go to sleep 'cause I only have about 7 hrs. Not ideal. I am working on that.

banks1850

think about how your body processes food and stores fat and this will become a little easier to understand. You burn less calories when you sleep, so you don't need as much energy, also, it's a long time between meals so you want things that are more difficult to break down and thus take longer to process. So stay away from simple carbs and such (white bread, candy bars...etc). It doesn't really matter when at night you eat, but more, what you eat. If you want something, try to make it something with some fiber (fiber is mostly indigestable, and makes all the other food in your stomach take longer to digest.) Something with a little protein and fiber would be best. If you eat simple carbs, your body will process them faster then you can use them and it will just store many of the carbs as fat. Oh, and try to keep it light, no matter what you eat late at night, if you binge, then you're gonna store fat.

LadyZen

Thanks!! I don't eat white bread and very little on the sweets. I've really revamped my way of eating; I just decided that my body isn't junk so I'm not gonna put junk in it:happy: I think that I will try to eat more calories during the day instead of playing catch up during the night. Maybe that will help as well. Thanks so much for all your help:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

TamTastic

I tend to eat dinner between 6:00 and 7:00 and then might have a light snack later on, at around 8:00...but it is usually a small serving of ice cream or something.

I just don't like to go to sleep after just eating a big meal. So I like to give myself enough time to digest a bit!!

LadyZen

Thanks for your input, Tam. Way 2 go on your weight loss!!!!:drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

astridfeline

No, I don't set an eating cut-off time. I just go by total cals taken in during the day. I do sometimes eat before bed and this doesn't bother my sleeping or digestion, as it does for some folks.

shorerider

I usually eat an early dinner--by 5:00pm and then don't eat anything until about an hour before bed--about 10-11pm. I have to have a light snack every night about an hour before bed to keep my blood sugar levels good during the night but it's a light one--like half a graham cracker with 1/2 tblspn. of PB.