Logic Behind Not Eating After 8?

offthedeependay

I think that the only logic is that a lot of people have the bad habit of binging before bed. Having a firm end time for eating can help end that.

Besides that, I see no reason to not eat past certain times.

This is why I stop eatting after 8 pm ,if not I tend to rummage through the cupboards and snake past my calories,,it has helped me but if I am under my calories for the day I don't care what time it is..

katharineacox

I heard that because when you eat carbs they immediately go to replenishing your glycogen stores and when you sleep you're burning calories and the first source used to burn calories is your glycogen stores, so by not eating right before bed your body will move on to different sources for calories....idk if that's true, it's just what I've heard before.

MOST of the people on this thread are wrong, I hate to say. Eating before bed, especially WHAT you eat has a great impact on your weight loss results.

When you eat carbs right before bed, it messes up your whole system. As Jillian Michaels' "Master Your Metabolism states;" The "levels of fat-storage hormone cortisol dip after breakfast and lunch, but not after dinner or evening snacks. Eating more calories during the evening will pack more fat around your belly...eating the bulk of your calories after dark also sends your bad LDL up and good HDL down."

"About one hour before you fall asleep ... your body releases its largest pulse of growth hormone for the day. Insulin inhibits growth hormone production, so the last thing you want to do is eat any carbs that will drive up your insulin and interfere with this precious fat-burning growth hormone supply."

"As soon as you have your evening meal, shut the kitchen down and don't head there anymore." - Jillian Michaels

tvanhooser

I don't know about all the scientific, professional details. The only logic I know is that if I eat after 6-7ish in the evening, I gain weight. If I don't, I lose weight. I'd imagine that the comments on here about not self-sabotaging by mindlessly snacking and thoughtlessly upping my calorie intake are probably true and have alot to do with it. I tend to try to keep things simple because if the plan is too complex or tedious, I won't stick to it. So the simplest explanation I've heard of weight loss philosophy works for me: consume less calories than you use each day and mathematically you can't help but lose weight eventually...just don't cut back so much that it's unhealthy and dangerous.