Not eating after a certain hour

taso42

Well, my personal trainer recommended that I don`t eat carbs from anything other than vegetables after 7 pm, but he said that eating proteins and vegetables later than that was ok. But I`m trying to lose some fat, and not muscles

This is known as broscience. That's why his job title is Personal Trainer and not Registered Dietitian.

dlj1970

I lost 30 pounds 2 years ago. I did all the right things; ate healthy, worked out 4X a week, got plenty of rest. I experimented a little bit during those 9 months of weight loss.
If I consumed most of my calories in the afternoon and evening (I was eating 1300 calories per day) I would maintain or lose less per week than if I had a hardy breakfast and lunch and scaled down my dinner and NO snack after dinner.
I know the logic says that its strictly based on calories in vs calories burned. But I work in the medical field and there is a LOT more going on inside our bodies than just that. Metabolism is a very complicated idea.
So that's my own experience and it is what I use today. I have had a similar issue that you have; lost 30+ pounds and then put 10-15 back on within 6 months. So, needless to say, I'm back at it and following what I did before.

:flowerforyou:

It is true that our circadian rhythms strongly affect our metabolism, although the research that is revealing this is just coming out of labs now. How that will affect the way people eat once the data reaches the mainstream will be interesting. At the end of the day, though, it's what works for your body. If not eating after a certain time works for you, then stick to it: )

Pebble321

Try it out and see what works for you. It doesn't matter from a metabolism perspective but you need to find what suits your particular issues.

Not eating after 5 sounds pretty extreme and unsustrainable to me - are you sure you aren't just setting yourself up for a big old crash here?

How about planing your dinner, and making that your last meal for the day? This would be a much more reasonable long term strategy and means you won't be hungry in the evening before you go to bed.

secretlobster

As it has been said already... Timing is completely irrelevant. Brofacts like "stop eating before 7pm" and "no carbs after 11am" etc. are distractions from the very simple explanation that if you are losing weight, it's because you're eating well and exercising. If you're not, it's because you're not working hard enough. People love to fabricate reasons to explain why they're not seeing progress when the real answer is so much more simple.

However, I will say that if you have a history of binging on food if you eat late at night, then obviously you need to do whatever it is you need to do to keep yourself on track. If not eating at night helps you to stay within your calorie goals, then that's what works for you. But it doesn't mean that the simple act of consuming calories at a certain hour puts a magical weight-loss curse on the body of every human being on earth.

You'll find that a lot of people in the industry of nutrition/fitness are so immersed in their jobs that they become enamored with the details of body science and forget the bigger picture.