Calories and time of day

mycupyourcake

Hi all,

I know everyone talks about weight loss being a simple calories in calories out equation. If you want to lose the weight you have to create a deficit. So if this is true, then does it matter if someone eats most their calories right before bed and then sleeps on it? To me, I would think that your body does different things with the food you give it based on your activity level (i.e. burns it or stores it). I don't know enough about physiology and nutrition. Can somebody with more knowledge weigh in on this? For years I would not eat much during the day, eat dinner and then have a bowl of cereal before bed b/c I was starving. My friends always told me that that is the reason why I couldn't lose the "baby weight." I wonder if I had eaten that same bowl of cereal for breakfast and netted the same calories would I have been thinner?

Thanks,
cupcake

Siege_Tank

It doesn't.

http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html

http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html

Siege_Tank

I could write a big long thing, but I'd just be repeating him. Yes it's long and somewhat brainy, but there's no broscience in there.

crlyxx

It doesn't matter, but I've found that eating up all of your calories right before bed makes you look bloated as all hell in the morning xD

psuLemon

Eat whenever you want.. it really doesn't matter.. the number of calories is more important than when you eat them.

mycupyourcake

Thanks all. I will look into leangains.com. Siege Tank do you do IF?