Eating before bed

Is it wrong to eat right before you go to bed? Ive heard mixed opinions on this.

theory 1: food sits in you and gets stored as fat
theory 2: doesn't matter when you eat as long as you burn it off

I don't mean have a FEAST then go to sleep, i just mean a little snack like an apple with peanut butter or something.

I'd appreciate opinions!

I'm with theory 2. If I am hungry, I will eat a little something. Keep it 200 cals or under and you're fine. I can't sleep hungry, so I've been known to have a small piece of cheese (mini babybel) or a little bit of almond milk. It's just to coat my stomach. I can usually get through the night that way. Then I wake up ready for breakfast in the AM!

Yeah, definitely no big meals within a few hours of bedtime, at least for me. But the time is just silly. Some people work night shift and are just having breakfast at 7pm! I have my last snack at work at 9pm, then I get off at 11 and I am in bed by midnight.

I've heard mixed opinions as well. I agree with pretty much what's been said here, but it's still a pretty good rule of thumb to at least have an hour or so between eating and going to sleep because it "messes up your sleep" or something like that. Not sure how true that is (late night radio talk-shows aren't always reliable.....)

I work 3rd shift. I basically don't eat during work. I come home from work, eat about 1000 calories, then go to bed. Then I wake up, eat about another 1000 calories and go to work. I've lost 10 pounds in the past 4 weeks since I started this job.

The human body doesn't care when you eat calories, it uses "x" calories a day. Whenever you choose to eat, the body still uses "x" calories a day. A 500 calorie deficit is a 500 calorie deficit, no matter how you split up the meals.

I eat every night before bed.

250ml skimmed milk.
30g Total Milk and Whey protein

Mix, drink, sleep. Done! Never had a problem.

Calories can't tell time.

Best post on this thread. Hands down

I sleep better when i don't eat right before bed. I've just started this recently- not to lose weight as such, because i'm not *really* convinced about that theory, but just because i'm a terrible sleeper and i wondered if it would help. So far it has.

I have broken through a plateau and lost some weight since i started doing this too but i don't necessarily attribute that to not eating after 8pm.

Jx

Is it wrong to eat right before you go to bed? Ive heard mixed opinions on this.

theory 1: food sits in you and gets stored as fat
theory 2: doesn't matter when you eat as long as you burn it off

I don't mean have a FEAST then go to sleep, i just mean a little snack like an apple with peanut butter or something.

I'd appreciate opinions!

You have to experiment to find what works for you, for some eating just before bed interferes with sleep which is bad.

I have a snack every single night between 8PM and 9PM. Always have. It helps me during a calorie deficit, as does eating smaller meals more often (but I'm not recommending that as some sort of magical panacea either, it's simply what works best for me).

If you're hungry enough that you think you might have trouble sleeping due to a rumbly tummy, or you know yourself well enough to realize that, at 3AM, a ravenous hungerbeast is going to end up being let loose in your kitchen, emptying high-calorie poor food choices into its gaping maw, then try a light snack, or whatever fits reasonably into your daily calories.

Your body is in constant homeostasis and function. You need a calorie surplus for the day to gain fat. Your body can't make fat out of nothing surplus(calories wise).