Does eating past 7pm make you gain more weight?

Chlo92x
Chlo92x Posts: 168 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Does eating past 7pm make you gain more weight? If you are still within your calorie limit of the day?
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  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    No, assuming we're only comparing timing and not total food eaten.
  • jesz124
    jesz124 Posts: 1,004 Member
    No.
  • uclown2002
    uclown2002 Posts: 79 Member
    Meal timing or indeed meal frequency have no bearing on weight loss. Its about calories in vs calories out.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    no - it's the calories in the food not the time you eat that causes weight gain.
  • mauryr
    mauryr Posts: 385
    I'm no expert, but the theory of this site is "if net calories in < net calories out then weight decreases".

    Timing is not the issue. I can say that it's worked for me, and I don't regulate when I eat.
  • 3laine75
    3laine75 Posts: 3,069 Member
    turns you into a gremlin too
  • Skinny_Beans
    Skinny_Beans Posts: 405 Member
    Eating right before you sleep has been shown to disturb sleep, but eating at night in of itself will not cause weight gain if you have the calories.
  • FabMrFox
    FabMrFox Posts: 259 Member
    may turn into a gremlin if you eat after 12 but 7pm you should be ok
  • RavenHershey0107
    RavenHershey0107 Posts: 38
    No.
  • TheRealJigsaw
    TheRealJigsaw Posts: 295 Member
    turns you into a gremlin too

    lol
  • kelseyhere
    kelseyhere Posts: 1,123 Member
    NO. eat at whatever time makes you happy. just don't over-eat.
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    In what time zone? Its always after 7 somewhere, right?
    Pretty sure that unless you swallowed a watch, your stomach has no idea what time it is.
  • kenazfehu
    kenazfehu Posts: 1,188 Member
    Nope - else all the Europeans would be fat. Dinner in Italy started about 9 PM. Waiters didn't know what to do with us when we showed up earlier than that.
  • Slove009
    Slove009 Posts: 364 Member
    I eat dinner at 8-9pm sometimes and will be in bed around 10-11pm. I'm losing! just make sure calories in are less than calories out!
  • RUNN3Rmom
    RUNN3Rmom Posts: 441
    If so I would be HUGE! I don't eat dinner until 8pm b/c I work 4p-12a :) 8pm is my normal dinner time unless it is my days off then I eat 5-6 w/my family.
  • lalalalyndsey
    lalalalyndsey Posts: 565
    Nope, another useless myth.
  • therapyruns
    therapyruns Posts: 164 Member
    Not even close.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    **looking down at my ticker** Apparently not.
  • hiker359
    hiker359 Posts: 577 Member
    No, eating a calorie surplus makes you gain more weight. Eat well and you will lose weight regardless of when you eat.
  • Graceious1
    Graceious1 Posts: 716 Member
    I used to think so but no.
  • DeMarraDontStop
    DeMarraDontStop Posts: 342 Member
    Dr. Ian recommends not eating within 90 minutes of going to bed. If you must have something make it light. I've been following that for awhile now. It works for me...
  • Flixie00
    Flixie00 Posts: 1,195 Member
    I eat my dinner between 8.30 - 9 pm (my biggest meal of day generally), when I get in from the gym. I will go to bed 10.30 - 11 pm and I have had no problems losing weight.
  • Gramps251
    Gramps251 Posts: 738 Member
    Eating right before you sleep has been shown to disturb sleep, but eating at night in of itself will not cause weight gain if you have the calories.

    This can happen for some people but it isn't universal. Everyone is different. I sleep better on a full stomach.
  • super_monty
    super_monty Posts: 419 Member
    I have just eaten a big bowel of ice cream at 22:30, no difference to eating it a 10:30
  • Gogretchen1
    Gogretchen1 Posts: 74
    All of these smart *kitten* above my are right. But they kind of made it seem like you had a stupid question- which you DON'T.

    No, you will not gain weight by eating at night. But in order to burn the most calories while you sleep, it is important to try not to eat 2-4 hours before you go to bed. If you eat a sandwich at 9 and then go to bed at 10, for instance, your body will work off that sandwich while you sleep. If you had eaten it at 6, it will be mostly digested and your body can work solely on burning FAT while you sleep.

    So if you're eating at seven at night, I would say that you shouldn't turn in for the night until at least 10 if you want to use your sleep to your advantage :)
  • zanAspera
    zanAspera Posts: 29 Member
    Meal timing or indeed meal frequency have no bearing on weight loss. Its about calories in vs calories out.

    That is another myth, the nuanced truth lies somewhere in between. If you eat a large meal and then go to bed or worse sit down and watch TV and never get up(at least in bed you roll over and toss and turn more than many TV watchers), the reduction in your metabolism will store more food as fat than if you were active and burning the blood sugar.

    On the other paw, eating at 6pm then going to bed at midnight will leave you very hungry and more likely to make poor choices for breakfasts, unless you know better and have a firm commitment to eating well.

    A lot depends on when you ate, what you ate and when you sleep. If you ate a lot of simple carbs, your bloodsugars will quickly spike and leave you hungry in the late evening and even hungrier in the morning even if you don't "cheat". But if you eat a meal with some protein and good fiber content, that will take several hours to digest.

    The recommendations I've heard are try to eat something about 3-4 hours before bed and then nothing after that. But there is no magical hour after which you shouldn't eat.
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    I have just eaten a big bowel of ice cream at 22:30, no difference to eating it a 10:30

    You ate a WHAT?!?!?!?!

    lol
  • nicleed
    nicleed Posts: 247 Member
    I eat dinner between 7.30-8pm every night and am in bed around 10pm. Never hurt me!
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    If you know you want to eat at night then just leave yourself some calories for that. I really like to snack in the evening more than any other time, so I leave myself at least a couple hundred calories after dinner. I think the mentality behind this myth is that if you stop eating at 7 (or 8, as some people tell it) you'll eat less, but it's the eating less that works, not the time frame.
  • track2thin
    track2thin Posts: 3
    No. BUT this can also be a time of great weakness (watching TV, etc . .) and I find it so easy to eat "a little" popcorn or other snacks. Don't forget to log everything. Going for a post dinner walk helps me.

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