Can certain foods make you gain weight?

LoraF83

While it has a lot to do with what you eat, it also matters WHEN you eat. If you are eating pizza at say 9pm one night and then waking up at your normal 6am to weigh, your body likely hasn't had enough "down time" to recharge itself and burn all of the calories that you intook (intaked??) the day before. I was reading about the importance of having a "fast" time between dinner and breakfast ("breaking the fast!"); it is important to give your body enough time to recharge itself... for instance, if you typically eat late dinners (8pm), try to wait 12 hours before your next meal. During the day, space your meals about 3-4 hours apart. And make sure that you're getting ample sleep (at least 6-8 hours). Sometimes, just not getting enough sleep and eating meals too close together can make a big difference in how your body burns the fuel you're feeding it!
Hope that helps! Stick with it and don't give up... eventually you'll find the right recipe for your healthy self!

No, you can eat whenever you want. Time isn't a big deal. Sorry.

I ate dinner the other night at 10pm, then got up and had breakfast at 7am. I weighed myself at 8am and I was down a pound.

I also snack all day long, and eat when I'm hungry. Your body is a fine-tuned machine and knows how and when to process food.

tigersword

While it has a lot to do with what you eat, it also matters WHEN you eat. If you are eating pizza at say 9pm one night and then waking up at your normal 6am to weigh, your body likely hasn't had enough "down time" to recharge itself and burn all of the calories that you intook (intaked??) the day before. I was reading about the importance of having a "fast" time between dinner and breakfast ("breaking the fast!"); it is important to give your body enough time to recharge itself... for instance, if you typically eat late dinners (8pm), try to wait 12 hours before your next meal. During the day, space your meals about 3-4 hours apart. And make sure that you're getting ample sleep (at least 6-8 hours). Sometimes, just not getting enough sleep and eating meals too close together can make a big difference in how your body burns the fuel you're feeding it!
Hope that helps! Stick with it and don't give up... eventually you'll find the right recipe for your healthy self!

This is a whole bunch of nonsense. Meal timing makes no difference. The only way meal timing can effect your weigh in is the fact that FOOD HAS WEIGHT. If you eat 3 pounds of food, you will weigh 3 pounds more while your digests. Drink a pint of water, boom, you just gained a pound. See how ridiculous that sounds?

Sleep deprivation can affect weight loss, because it slows your metabolism, but meal timing doesn't matter at all.

krystalhaze

While it has a lot to do with what you eat, it also matters WHEN you eat. If you are eating pizza at say 9pm one night and then waking up at your normal 6am to weigh, your body likely hasn't had enough "down time" to recharge itself and burn all of the calories that you intook (intaked??) the day before. I was reading about the importance of having a "fast" time between dinner and breakfast ("breaking the fast!"); it is important to give your body enough time to recharge itself... for instance, if you typically eat late dinners (8pm), try to wait 12 hours before your next meal. During the day, space your meals about 3-4 hours apart. And make sure that you're getting ample sleep (at least 6-8 hours). Sometimes, just not getting enough sleep and eating meals too close together can make a big difference in how your body burns the fuel you're feeding it!
Hope that helps! Stick with it and don't give up... eventually you'll find the right recipe for your healthy self!

No, you can eat whenever you want. Time isn't a big deal. Sorry.

I ate dinner the other night at 10pm, then got up and had breakfast at 7am. I weighed myself at 8am and I was down a pound.

I also snack all day long, and eat when I'm hungry. Your body is a fine-tuned machine and knows how and when to process food.

Just advice that I read about, so apologies are unnecessary... and not everyone's bodies are "fine-tuned machines" yet because of how we abuse them with processed foods and excess stress and lack of sleep. The original poster sounded like she was having difficulty even though she has been eating the right amount of calories, so it might have to do with her habits/cycles. I also don't think that eating late is "bad" but it does make sense that it'd be important for your body to have enough time to recharge itself at night. And I snack also, but there is still roughly 3 hours between all of my snacks... that seems to be when my body says "I'm hungry" so it made sense to me when I read that that was the recommendation for keeping your engine revving.

krystalhaze

While it has a lot to do with what you eat, it also matters WHEN you eat. If you are eating pizza at say 9pm one night and then waking up at your normal 6am to weigh, your body likely hasn't had enough "down time" to recharge itself and burn all of the calories that you intook (intaked??) the day before. I was reading about the importance of having a "fast" time between dinner and breakfast ("breaking the fast!"); it is important to give your body enough time to recharge itself... for instance, if you typically eat late dinners (8pm), try to wait 12 hours before your next meal. During the day, space your meals about 3-4 hours apart. And make sure that you're getting ample sleep (at least 6-8 hours). Sometimes, just not getting enough sleep and eating meals too close together can make a big difference in how your body burns the fuel you're feeding it!
Hope that helps! Stick with it and don't give up... eventually you'll find the right recipe for your healthy self!

This is a whole bunch of nonsense. Meal timing makes no difference. The only way meal timing can effect your weigh in is the fact that FOOD HAS WEIGHT. If you eat 3 pounds of food, you will weigh 3 pounds more while your digests. Drink a pint of water, boom, you just gained a pound. See how ridiculous that sounds?

Sleep deprivation can affect weight loss, because it slows your metabolism, but meal timing doesn't matter at all.

I wasn't talking "timing" but just giving your body enough time to burn calories... if you eat 1200 calories in one meal, it's harder for your body to efficiently burn those calories to provide you energy throughout the day, than if you were to eat 1200 calories spaced out over the day.

Again, just advice that I read, so I'm certainly not saying it's "proven". Just made sense to me.

tigersword

While it has a lot to do with what you eat, it also matters WHEN you eat. If you are eating pizza at say 9pm one night and then waking up at your normal 6am to weigh, your body likely hasn't had enough "down time" to recharge itself and burn all of the calories that you intook (intaked??) the day before. I was reading about the importance of having a "fast" time between dinner and breakfast ("breaking the fast!"); it is important to give your body enough time to recharge itself... for instance, if you typically eat late dinners (8pm), try to wait 12 hours before your next meal. During the day, space your meals about 3-4 hours apart. And make sure that you're getting ample sleep (at least 6-8 hours). Sometimes, just not getting enough sleep and eating meals too close together can make a big difference in how your body burns the fuel you're feeding it!
Hope that helps! Stick with it and don't give up... eventually you'll find the right recipe for your healthy self!

This is a whole bunch of nonsense. Meal timing makes no difference. The only way meal timing can effect your weigh in is the fact that FOOD HAS WEIGHT. If you eat 3 pounds of food, you will weigh 3 pounds more while your digests. Drink a pint of water, boom, you just gained a pound. See how ridiculous that sounds?

Sleep deprivation can affect weight loss, because it slows your metabolism, but meal timing doesn't matter at all.

I wasn't talking "timing" but just giving your body enough time to burn calories... if you eat 1200 calories in one meal, it's harder for your body to efficiently burn those calories to provide you energy throughout the day, than if you were to eat 1200 calories spaced out over the day.

Again, just advice that I read, so I'm certainly not saying it's "proven". Just made sense to me.

Again, not true. The body is adapted to digesting large meals. That's how humans evolved. Eating one large meal every day or every few days. If humans had to eat several times a day to survive, we'd have gone extinct a few million years ago.

How you space your calories makes absolutely no difference in how your body digests food. People only started eating more than once a day about 100 years ago. Before that, only the very rich rich people could afford the luxury of eating more than once a day.

Mindmovesbody

While it has a lot to do with what you eat, it also matters WHEN you eat. If you are eating pizza at say 9pm one night and then waking up at your normal 6am to weigh, your body likely hasn't had enough "down time" to recharge itself and burn all of the calories that you intook (intaked??) the day before. I was reading about the importance of having a "fast" time between dinner and breakfast ("breaking the fast!"); it is important to give your body enough time to recharge itself... for instance, if you typically eat late dinners (8pm), try to wait 12 hours before your next meal. During the day, space your meals about 3-4 hours apart. And make sure that you're getting ample sleep (at least 6-8 hours). Sometimes, just not getting enough sleep and eating meals too close together can make a big difference in how your body burns the fuel you're feeding it!
Hope that helps! Stick with it and don't give up... eventually you'll find the right recipe for your healthy self!

This is a whole bunch of nonsense. Meal timing makes no difference. The only way meal timing can effect your weigh in is the fact that FOOD HAS WEIGHT. If you eat 3 pounds of food, you will weigh 3 pounds more while your digests. Drink a pint of water, boom, you just gained a pound. See how ridiculous that sounds?

Sleep deprivation can affect weight loss, because it slows your metabolism, but meal timing doesn't matter at all.

I wasn't talking "timing" but just giving your body enough time to burn calories... if you eat 1200 calories in one meal, it's harder for your body to efficiently burn those calories to provide you energy throughout the day, than if you were to eat 1200 calories spaced out over the day.

Again, just advice that I read, so I'm certainly not saying it's "proven". Just made sense to me.

Again, not true. The body is adapted to digesting large meals. That's how humans evolved. Eating one large meal every day or every few days. If humans had to eat several times a day to survive, we'd have gone extinct a few million years ago.

How you space your calories makes absolutely no difference in how your body digests food. People only started eating more than once a day about 100 years ago. Before that, only the very rich rich people could afford the luxury of eating more than once a day.

Tigersword knows the deal. I looked at your diary as well. You are most likely not losing because you are inconsistent with logging your foods, inconsisent with your caloric intake, probably not consuming enough water and probably over estimating your burns. Find out your BMR, TDEE, read about what they are and eat at a deficit of your TDEE. Take accurate measurements, eat at a deficit, try to meet our macros more accurately and you should see both the scale AND tape measure moving. This is a lifestyle change not a diet and it takes some serious focus, dedication and patience. It's not the weight loss race, it's a journey......

SomeoneSomeplace

I've lost 30 pounds. I'm fairly thin now, but I'm naturally kind of petite. I say kind of BC I def have curves, bigger legs, bigger *kitten*. But although I've lost a lot of weight I def am skinny fat.

I eat a lot of frozen Amy's Organic Meals, Smart Ones,. Canned Soup and take out. I always go for healthy options but I eat way too much sodium. I bloat A LOT and I eat a lot of carbs, which is basically sugar...so I feel like even tho I've lost weight, I'd have better luck and less body fat if I ate cleaner.

Home cooked meals are best, but my family isn't one for home cooking. Minus grilling and I don't eat meat!

So I'd try and stay away from highly processed things. I'm really trying to get better about that. Really trying to pay attention to sodium and stay under wen I can. It can just be really tough eat veg in a house full of carnivores. I'll eat chicken sometimes bc I'm not morally against it or anything, it's just a life style choice/red meat/pork/fish make me sick but I'm really try to get away from the frozen food stuff, as convenient of an option as it is...

tigersword

Being "skinny fat" has nothing to do with your diet, and everything to do with your exercise regimen.