What time in the day do you stop eating?

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  • Sweets1954
    Sweets1954 Posts: 507 Member
    I try to have my last meal of the day before 7, although with my work schedule it's not always possible. Because I am diabetic I usually have a small snack before I go to bed but I have to be careful what it is or else I wake up in the middle of the night with heartburn. That's mainly the reason I don't like to eat too late in the evening anyway. I do have the snack just to help keep my blood glucose levels okay through the night.
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    When I feel like it.

    Especially considering I know it is false that you have to stop eating at a certain time or it turns into fat. I mean, really? How did this come about anyway?
  • BlackTimber
    BlackTimber Posts: 230 Member
    I was just curious what time in the day you stop eating. I tend not to eat after 8pm in the evening, not sure why but I always think anything that I eat after that will just sit idle in my stomach and could slow down weight loss.

    It's an old wives tale. Your stomach doesn't recognize time of day. The recommendation to stop eating after 8:00 became popular because it's really a way to get people to stop snacking in front of the TV. It has nothing to do with biology.

    I stop eating when I'm no longer hungry. Sometimes I'm okay after dinner (7:00). Sometimes I need a little snack before bed.

    Not exactly an Old Wives Tale. But ignored by most without huge issues. Circadian rhythms are real and food is the biggest pusher of our circadian rhythm. In fact food is more important than light!

    Shift Work and Hypothyroidism

    If circadian rhythms are important for thyroid function, we would expect shift workers to have high rates of hypothyroidism. Shift workers sleep during the day and eat at night, which disrupts circadian rhythms.

    It turns out that shift work doubles the risk of autoimmune hypothyroidism:
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    meal timing is arbitrary. however, i usually stop eating an hour or so before going to bed. i find it easier to fall asleep that way.
  • wtw0n
    wtw0n Posts: 1,083 Member
    No set time. I eat my supper around 7-8PM, but since I don't go to bed until around 3AM I more than likely eat something around midnight.
  • Loopykaren
    Loopykaren Posts: 1
    I try not to eat after 7pm...try green tea or fruit tea....stops you wanting to eat!
  • JessicaRobin67
    JessicaRobin67 Posts: 275 Member
    By 6... but I don't go to sleep until 11pm.
  • missability
    missability Posts: 223
    8 PM, if I am midway thru my dark choc. and I get side tracked, usually with my 3 yr old grand-daughter, and it gets to be after 8, I wrap it up for the next day.....I know, I know, I'm a little OCD that way :)
  • Bumbeen
    Bumbeen Posts: 263 Member
    When I hit my calorie intake. Sometimes that's 10pm sometimes its 7PM
  • RobinC37
    RobinC37 Posts: 242 Member
    I eat until I brush my teeth and go to bed. Haven't had any problems not losing so far, or any problems sleeping or with indigestion.
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
    As a diabetic I eat a bedtime snack. In fact with my weird sleeping habits my dietician set me up with an actual meal around 10 PM and a bedtime snack at 1 AM. I go to sleep around 2 and get up at 11 AM. Gotta love retirement!
  • lpina2mi
    lpina2mi Posts: 425 Member
    If I have something between 7-9pm (our family dinner time), then I will not eat before I go to bed. If I don't, then somewhere between 10-midnight I will get hungry and it will distract me from sleep. I don't eat a whole meal--just something that includes a little fat, a little protein. and some fiber.

    Also, after dinner cleanup I will have 1-2 cups of black tea unsweetened. I like the palate cleansing affect. And it may (since I have been doing this evening unsweetened black tea thing for several years) have become like a pavlova response: BLACK TEA + NIGHT = NO MORE EATING.

    This is my usual. Sometimes things go differently, especially on the weekends with a glass of wine or dessert. Then when I get home and my palate is asking for more sweet, an apertif, some salt-- IF I THINK about having tea before I reach for whatever sugar or salt that is in my immediate thoughts--I can usually exert enough will power to make a cup of unsweetened black tea instead. It is amazing; It deletes/overrides/cancels/neutralizes the desire for another taste of this or that.
  • StefieLou
    StefieLou Posts: 45 Member
    When the calories are used up, I brush my teeth, and usually turn off all the lights in the kitchen.
    If I feel like I need to eat something else, I usually got for a cup of sleepy time tea
  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    Just before bed...I hate crumbs on the pillow. Also...I drool in my sleep, that would be a mess.
  • HerculesKlump
    HerculesKlump Posts: 13
    No set time, I eat whenever I feel like it.
  • HerculesKlump
    HerculesKlump Posts: 13
    No set time, I eat whenever I feel like it. I would eat in my sleep if I could!
  • CaffeinatedConfectionist
    CaffeinatedConfectionist Posts: 1,046 Member
    When I go to sleep....
  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    About 5 - 30 minutes before I go to sleep usually.
  • jeninthed
    jeninthed Posts: 20 Member
    Between 8 and 9 is when I drink my last protein shake and then I am done for the day.
  • paulywoo
    paulywoo Posts: 169 Member
    I aim to use the last of my calories between 5-7 when I have dinner.
  • emills1970
    emills1970 Posts: 118 Member
    I don't eat after 8pm.
  • lacurandera1
    lacurandera1 Posts: 8,083 Member
    When I'm asleep is the only time I don't eat.
  • cz52
    cz52 Posts: 7
    there isnt a time to stop eating...... i used to eat in bed..... unfortunately there is a slight difference in every single human body! and keep in mind ..........its easier to loose or burn calories by exercise but its not easy to gain weight, by this im saying......i used to wanna gain weight before my second child.
  • supermumincanada
    supermumincanada Posts: 59 Member
    No set time, just when my calories are used up or I'm not humgry. As I like to eat in the evenings I've usually saved a few for then, also work night shift two nights a week so tend to eat all night then!!!
  • rascallycat
    rascallycat Posts: 248 Member
    The time of day does not determine when I eat. I eat when I am hungry.
  • daterminedfatburnerX
    daterminedfatburnerX Posts: 346 Member
    7 or 8 so it gives my food 3-4hrs to digest before going to sleep
  • Investorhyde1
    Investorhyde1 Posts: 11
    I start around noon and finish eating around 7 or 8pm.
  • jnn0409
    jnn0409 Posts: 171 Member
    I stop eating when i'm out of calories or no longer hungry. Sometimes I do have calories left but if it's too close to going to bed or I feel it's too late to eat then I make myself wait till the morning. LOL yes i'm going to quote I believe "The Doctors or Dr. Oz" that said don't eat 90 minutes before you go to bed.
  • momof2TONI
    momof2TONI Posts: 112 Member
    I try to have my last bite of food by 7 or 8 p.m. Otherwise, my food doesn't seem to digest properly before I go to bed and I don't sleep well.

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