Should you not eat past a certain time?

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  • caitconquersweight
    caitconquersweight Posts: 316 Member
    Your body doesn't know or care what time it is. Eat a little every few hours, or when you're hungry.
  • JadeZaragoza
    JadeZaragoza Posts: 49
    The reason we don't tend to eat past 9 pm in our home is because we usually feel sick in the morning, it almost feels like the food didn`t go down and just stayed there, but that may just be us.
  • krisiepoo
    krisiepoo Posts: 710 Member
    If you have cals left, eat em! Your body doesn't say *whoops, it's 8, I have to shut down now*
  • bacitracin
    bacitracin Posts: 921 Member
    Have a pickle and some cottage cheese or yogurt if you're still hungry before bed. Or some string cheese.
  • Rhonnie
    Rhonnie Posts: 506 Member
    In general you don't want to eat right before bed - and the further from bedtime that you eat (up to a few hours) the better. But, given you are losing I wouldn't worry about it - the number of calories you eat is more important then when you eat them so if say you ate diner at 6 and used up your calories for the day and then had a snack later that pushed you over that is worse then waiting to eat until 8 and not having a snack that pushes you over. Again, since you are losing now I wouldn't worry about it. If/when you hit a plateau later maybe revisit the topic.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    In general you don't want to eat right before bed - and the further from bedtime that you eat (up to a few hours) the better...
    Why? And exactly how long before bedtime is optimal? Is 4 hours before better than 3 hours before? What about 6 hours?

    If someone goes to bed at 8:00, does that mean they shouldn't eat dinner at 6:00? What if they get off work at 5:00 and have an hour commute home and that's the only time they can eat dinner?

    What if someone gets off work at 9:00 PM and goes straight to the gym afterwards and gets home at 10:30? Should they not eat because it's too late?
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    In general you don't want to eat right before bed - and the further from bedtime that you eat (up to a few hours) the better.

    Why? Unless eating at night gives you indigestion or causes sleeping problems, there's no reason not to eat at night. I eat the VAST majority (like 1000+) of my daily calories in the hour or two before and up to bedtime (carbs and all). As long as I keep to my calorie goals-I'm golden. See ticker for how that's working out for me.
  • CarlieeBear
    CarlieeBear Posts: 325 Member
    I'm sure you'll get a lot of varied answers. I don't worry about when I eat as much as what and how much. Last night my bf and I were exhausted, so slept from around 5:30 p.m. to midnight. So, we went to IHop at 1 a.m.

    In the past, I've lost weight by not eating past a certain time. My guess is that it limited how much I ate, but I'm no expert. If I'm physically hungry, I eat as long as I have calories left :-)
  • daysl33per
    daysl33per Posts: 1
    Oh my God. All these people saying that it's a myth are comepletely giving the wrong advice. I mean, it's true that your digestion doesn't slow down, but after 7pm most people are done being active for the day. Which results in not burning off as many calories from that meal as if you would have if you've eaten earlier. So it's just recommended not to eat as much carbs at night because carbs is what most people need to BURN and work off to actually lose weight. Carbs puts weight on.
  • psych101
    psych101 Posts: 1,842 Member
    Oh my God. All these people saying that it's a myth are comepletely giving the wrong advice. I mean, it's true that your digestion doesn't slow down, but after 7pm most people are done being active for the day. Which results in not burning off as many calories from that meal as if you would have if you've eaten earlier. So it's just recommended not to eat as much carbs at night because carbs is what most people need to BURN and work off to actually lose weight. Carbs puts weight on.


    umm no
  • KWKY
    KWKY Posts: 110 Member
    Everyone's body has it's own schedule based off of how you live your life, if you are losing weight and doing what you are doing then it is fine.

    Edit: If you eat before bed you might have a hard time sleeping, that is one thing that I know for sure. When I stopped eating later at night I started falling asleep much easier in comparison to when I ate within 2 hrs of bedtime.

    I second this, I firstly tend to overeat after dinner (because kids are in bed) and I tend to eat crap. Secondly i find that if I do eat after dinner my sleep quality is rubbish, which when you have two under 6, just makes you feel crap the next day.
  • kenc1971
    kenc1971 Posts: 107 Member
    NEVER eat past midnight if you have this body type:

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  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    Oh my God. All these people saying that it's a myth are comepletely giving the wrong advice. I mean, it's true that your digestion doesn't slow down, but after 7pm most people are done being active for the day. Which results in not burning off as many calories from that meal as if you would have if you've eaten earlier. So it's just recommended not to eat as much carbs at night because carbs is what most people need to BURN and work off to actually lose weight. Carbs puts weight on.

    I am always amazed by the reasons people will bump an inactive thread. Especially when that reason is to prove that they have no understanding of how the human body works.

    The food you eat does not need to be burned off immediately to prevent the calories from being stored as fat. It takes 6-8 hours for food to pass through the stomach and small intestine, and remains in the large intestine for an average of 40 hours. Eating after 7 pm does not cause weight gain, especially since your body is still working on digesting breakfast….from yesterday.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    Oh my God. All these people saying that it's a myth are comepletely giving the wrong advice. I mean, it's true that your digestion doesn't slow down, but after 7pm most people are done being active for the day. Which results in not burning off as many calories from that meal as if you would have if you've eaten earlier. So it's just recommended not to eat as much carbs at night because carbs is what most people need to BURN and work off to actually lose weight. Carbs puts weight on.

    I am always amazed by the reasons people will bump an inactive thread. Especially when that reason is to prove that they have no understanding of how the human body works.

    The food you eat does not need to be burned off immediately to prevent the calories from being stored as fat. It takes 6-8 hours for food to pass through the stomach and small intestine, and remains in the large intestine for an average of 40 hours. Eating after 7 pm does not cause weight gain, especially since your body is still working on digesting breakfast….from yesterday.
    For a first post, no less.

    I do admit, though, that I don't eat after I go to sleep.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,337 Member
    In general you don't want to eat right before bed - and the further from bedtime that you eat (up to a few hours) the better. But, given you are losing I wouldn't worry about it - the number of calories you eat is more important then when you eat them so if say you ate diner at 6 and used up your calories for the day and then had a snack later that pushed you over that is worse then waiting to eat until 8 and not having a snack that pushes you over. Again, since you are losing now I wouldn't worry about it. If/when you hit a plateau later maybe revisit the topic.

    Why?

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