Eating late...........very bad!

Aesop101

I had a survival job at Wal-Mart just recently where I claimed I did 3 jobs. BTW I think that is absolutely true. I never went home so tired in my life. Usually I would get home around 1, 2, 3 in the morning. I tried to stay within my calorie allowance but often failed. I would say I must have burned 2,000 plus calories tonight. Which I believe since I was on my feet for 7 to 8 hours a night and running from one end of the store to the other.

So when I got home I would eat what I thought was with in my allowance. Not always pure though. It was my best guess. Then I would go to bed with a full tummy. My weight shot up.

Then last week I started a new job in my profession. Where I was getting home early and going to bed early. My weight dropped by 4 lbs. in a week and that included one binge but I burned that off with a very long hike. If that loss rate keeps up I'll have a net loss very soon.

Still it got me to thinking just how bad eating late is for you. That is just amazing to me. So it's not just the calories we need to watch it's the time of the day we eat those calories. Go figure. Tough lesson learned.

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

It could be a number of things leading to this "weight loss"...none of which have to do with WHEN you were eating per se.

Sounds like you were under stress which means higher cortisol levels, which means weight gain.

Sounds like you weren't sleeping, also leads to weight gain.

Sounds like your hours (eating super late at night) would make a 7am weigh in (for example) less accurate than if you had slept a full 8 hours and stopped eating 12 hours prior to that (like now).

Also, if you're actually eating fewer calories, binging less, and are more active then you'd expect to be losing.