Terrible to eat after 7pm?

Not eating after a certain time is completly wrong. Your body and your metabolism works 24 hours. There are reasons you might want to not eat after that time (if you mindless eat, you get stomach pain sleeping on a full stomach) but if you're hungry and have cals left there's no reason not to eat after 7pm.

Have lost most my weight eating the majority of my calories at night:)

It's a great ticker Sey!

i don't wake up until about 5 p.m due to my schedule, so i hope that's not a problem :P i'm up until about 8 a.m every day!

I think it's okay to eat a snack a couple hours before sleeping (otherwise you're hungry) but def limit it and make it small. I personally try to not eat carbs after 3 pm and if i eat anything after 7pm its usually fruit or nuts or milk.

I think it's supposed to discourage night-time snacking. Even though research totally shows that a small snack of carbs or tryptophan-rich food (milk!) improve sleep.

Night shifter also - would die if I couldnt eat after 7pm.

Meal timing doesn't matter. I eat after 7, and always have done (including carbs)

The reason why it may help with weight loss to have a cut-off point is more so that a lot of people snack late at night. They eat all their regular meals AND those snacks, causing them to be over what they need to lose weight or maintain.

If you are still under your calories for the day (or the week - I prefer to focus on weekly averages) then you will lose weight, regardless of the timing. If you are a late night muncher, then that would just mean that you'd have to eat less throughout the day.

Okay here's the concept.. Most people who eat around 5/6pm have time to move around and burn calories per say. People who eat around 7/8/9 ish usually end up sleeping an hour or two later which is where it gets tricky.. If you don't move after you eat earlier in the day, it's the same as eating at night.

Agreed - it's more to do with what your body is doing with the food once you've eaten it. If you've eaten loads and are going to be less sedentary (night shift, exercise, etc.), then it'll burn off. Hubby and I have started a brisk (partly uphill) walk around 3 miles every other night around 9pm, so on these days I tend to be fine having my dinner later. Other days if I did have to eat something late, it would be something light and a load of water to keep me going.

Keep it up, looks like you're doing great!

Some days I don't get out of bed until around 6:00 PM, so I'm going to have to say no on that one...

I think it's okay to eat a snack a couple hours before sleeping (otherwise you're hungry) but def limit it and make it small. I personally try to not eat carbs after 3 pm and if i eat anything after 7pm its usually fruit or nuts or milk.

Why though? I mean, if that suits you, then obviously keep doing that, but it's a matter of personal preference. I eat over half my calories after 7pm - my evening meal plus snacks just before bed. Carbs and all.

Okay here's the concept.. Most people who eat around 5/6pm have time to move around and burn calories per say. People who eat around 7/8/9 ish usually end up sleeping an hour or two later which is where it gets tricky.. If you don't move after you eat earlier in the day, it's the same as eating at night.

Agreed - it's more to do with what your body is doing with the food once you've eaten it. If you've eaten loads and are going to be less sedentary (night shift, exercise, etc.), then it'll burn off. Hubby and I have started a brisk (partly uphill) walk around 3 miles every other night around 9pm, so on these days I tend to be fine having my dinner later. Other days if I did have to eat something late, it would be something light and a load of water to keep me going.

Keep it up, looks like you're doing great!

what? no. it can take six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and into your small intestine, so any activity done with a full stomach won't burn off what you've just eaten.

Life's pretty simple if you just learn the rules.

"Keep yourself out of the light. You hate bright light, especially sunlight. It'll kill you. And keep yourself away from water. Don't get yourself wet. But the most important rule, the rule you can never forget ... no matter how much you cry, or how much you beg ... never, never feed yourself after 7 pm."

Stick to that and you'll be a happy little mogwai.

I've heard it's best to not eat after around 7pm & it helps you to lose weight...

Others say it's beneficial not cause of any weight loss, but cause it gives you a cutoff time to take in your daily calories and not eat carbs too close to bedtime.

I try not to eat too late (latest around 8:30) but sometimes find myself unable to sleep at night and with a hungry tummy that I try to ignore.


Thoughts?

My body clearly doesn't know the rules. I eat 50% of my daily calories after 7pm and am slowly stripping fat. I also tend to skip breakfast, have a late breakfast or have a light breakfast.

You may see some SHORT TERM effects on the scales by eating close to bed-time but in the long run it all comes out in the wash. As for a "cut off time"... I log meals based upon sleep cycles (usually - unless I have an unusually messed up schedule that causes my sleep patterns to be a bit off). Others use Midnight... Others do different things. In the end, it is the AVERAGE of what we do rather than each and every day so it really does not matter. The theory behind the don't eat after 7 is the thought that your body does not have time to burn of the extra calories... The problem is that even if it stores the extra calories as fat, when you get up and start moving again, if you have not taken in any calories your body will pull its energy from your fat stores... Hence any "gain" would be temporary.