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Does eating before you go to bed really make you fat??

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  • NonnyMary
    NonnyMary Posts: 982 Member
    The answer is yes. I have proved it time and time. It's not just about the calories, it's when you eat them. If I front-load my food into the earlier part of the day I lose more weight the next day. If however I have a heavy meal later in the day, the next morning the weight won't have budged. It's a key part of my diet, understanding that fact.
    You're just weighing food still in your gut from the night before. It doesn't affect fat loss.

    is that possibly why when I weigh myself just before eating dinner, i might weigh 250,, then i eat dinner and i weigh 252, then in the morning i weight 250? (because i am weighing the weight of the food that is not yet digested???)
  • vanillacoffee
    vanillacoffee Posts: 1,024 Member
    I have no idea scientifically, but personally I feel like I lose less weight when I make a habit of eating before bed.
  • ELEANOR43da
    ELEANOR43da Posts: 166 Member
    Being diabetic its always been recommended to me to eat a small meal, a carb ....to keep my sugars up throughout the night .Again how does my body tell time !!
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