Is it okay to eat at 9:30 if your going to bed a 12:00?

Lift_Run_Eat

Eat something with Casien protein in with such as cottage cheese. This acts like a time-released protein and will continue to work as you are sleeping.

Murlin54

I've read opinions (not saying they are true) that you shouldn't eat 3 hours before bed. Your body supposedly goes into the highest fat burning mode when you have not eaten for 11 hours. 11 is the magic number apparently, so if you sleep 8 hours and don't eat for 3 hrs before bed, you will hit that magic 11 hour mark. Again, it could be bunk but it is in the book Mastering Leptin by Byron Richards. They also say you should only eat 3 meals a day and no snacking in between. If you want desert, eat it right after your meal. Reasoning has to do with rising glucose/insulin and the effect on leptin and all that. The book says that the current trend to eat 5 or 6 small meals a day is very wrong. Instead of keeping your metabolism humming as the proponents say, they claim that it throws of your leptin balance etc, etc. The book makes sense when you read it but I couldn't tell you if there is a bit of truth in it. I found it fairly difficult to always space my meals 5 to 6 hours apart with an 11 hour break in the evening before eating again. They claim you will adjust to it. It is hard to know what to believe. So much information/disinformation and it only gets worse over the years. People here will say a calorie is a calorie, but really I don't see how that is true. 100 calories of candy is not the same as 100 calories of broccoli. i believe your body can function a lot more efficiently on the broccoli, even though the calorie value is the same. I found Mastering Leptin an interesting read but I can't vouch for its veracity. Lots of supporting data/studies included in the index and all that but as I said, who are we to believe?

Kotasmommy

Hi,
Yes it is ok. the important thing is not to go to bed right after eating with full tummy. When we sleep with do not burn calories and what we do is storage the food and turning into fat instead energy

Not true. Your body is always burning calories. Even in your sleep.

jewels813

I just watched The Doctors today, in order to lose belly fat..... not to eat 4 hours before bed, 8 glasses of water a day, lean protein and veggies. I am going to give this a try!

AngieELS

Interesting thread!
I've always believed that it didn't matter what you ate as long as you stayed within your calorie range.

But I've found that for me, not eating late is best because if I do I wake up still kind of full and unable to eat a good breakfast. Which leads to me starving by lunch and then I overeat midday... then I am not hungry for dinner until really late and it is an endless cycle. If I stop eating early in the evening, then I am ready for a good breakfast. I feel like my metabolism is more on track because doing this really helped me lose weight last year. If I do get hungry at night, I try something really light like fruit. But dinner and anything heavy or really filling, I try to eat by or before 6 or so.

agthorn

Hi,
Yes it is ok. the important thing is not to go to bed right after eating with full tummy. When we sleep with do not burn calories and what we do is storage the food and turning into fat instead energy

Your body is constantly burning calories. If you don't burn calories at night, then you're dead. If you are alive in the morning after being dead, then you're probably a vampire.

Athijade

Hi,
Yes it is ok. the important thing is not to go to bed right after eating with full tummy. When we sleep with do not burn calories and what we do is storage the food and turning into fat instead energy

Your body is constantly burning calories. If you don't burn calories at night, then you're dead. If you are alive in the morning after being dead, then you're probably a vampire.

As long as I don't sparkle...

emstgm

Yes. They only turn in to gremlins if they eat after midnight.






BUT DON'T GET THEM WET!

Getting them wet only makes them reproduce.

No, no, no ... that's Tribbles, not Gremlins! :bigsmile:

lacroyx

If you're hungry, eat! If not, don't. Timing makes no difference as previous posters stated.

she's right when i work crazy hours i eat crazy times but if i'm hungry i eat if i'm not i don't

comming from someone who works graveyard hours it does not matter.

snookumss

I sit in bed drinking my 62 grams of protein and go to bed. It doens't make any difference.

missfluffyuk

Yes. They only turn in to gremlins if they eat after midnight.









BUT DON'T GET THEM WET!

Why is everybody so clever today?