Tell me again why eating before bed won't make me fat?

craziest fact I've ever heard! I believe this is what you have heard or think but it's ridiculous. Your body has an ENTIRE different way of converting food into fat. And it's the calories that you don't burn off but just like you can't lose 2 pounds of fat in a day - you can't gain fat that fast either.

No, no. You see losing weight is not really about calories, it's about the density of the food you eat.

Ok....let me explain. We all take it as given that on a beach the heavy pebbles eventually sink to the bottom and lighter sand particles rise to the top, right? It's the same in our stomach! The dense, heavy food is more likely to sink to the bottom and turn into fat than the lighter, less dense food. So....pork belly - dense, more likely to settle unless you keep it on the move....popcorn, not very dense at all so less likely to settle quickly.

The more dense food you consume, the more you have to keep it moving (trampolining is the best form of exercise for keeping dense food from settling quickly!) and the less dense food you eat the less you need to jiggle it around to keep it from settling and becoming fat....so think crackers, popcorn, marshmallows and fish (fish float so they are naturally less dense...as is duck and other aquatic birds.)

Now there is one exception to the dense food rule and that is beans. Beans are dense little suckers however they produce lots of gas in the stomach and gas rises! So beans are actually good foods to eat. Now obviously I don't want to get too deeply into the science of this on here, but you can read more about it in my forthcoming nutritional book 'The Unbearable Lightness of Bean'

So, what about drinking soda? I'm trying to get my head around the science but wondering if the reason why I put on weight when drinking soda is because the gas bubbles makes all the food in my stomach sit at the top for hours and hours, rather than being digested? You seem to know your stuff and hope you can help me

It's ok, I know the science of weight loss can be confounding at times....although I have to say that you are very perceptive because you are right, having soda make *all* your food float to the top is as bad as having it all settling to the bottom...it just means you'll get a fat torso rather than a fat *kitten*.

So; there are two solutions for you:

1. Moderate your soda intake. Take a few sips, then a few bites of your food, then a few more sips so that everything is a bit more mixed up.
2. Invest in my Gyronator 3000; proven to gently mix your food into small, non-fat making particles. This man lost 350lb with a healthy 'low density food diet' and 30 minutes a day on the Gyronator 3000 and he's never looked back!

i munch all night before i go to bed. i get home from work later, eat dinner and a few snacks and go to bed shortly after. my bmi is in the 17s...

Looks like you play Twister too. I also played Twister back in the 60s. I was very thin then. Correlation?

The problem with eating late at night is that when you lay down all the food settles in whatever direction you're laying down and then sinks into your body as fat!! So lay on your back and all that food is going to turn into a fat *kitten*....lay on your side and your late night meal with settle into fat hips....lay on your front and you'll get a bigger belly.

Eating during the day whilst you're moving around means the food never has a chance to settle and become fat; instead it swiches around and gets broken down into smaller and smaller pieces as you move around until they're too small to even become fat...and then your body expels them.

FACT.

Here is a summary about the reality of night time eating from a bodybuilder with a PHd in Nutritional sciences.

http://www.biolayne.com/nutrition/carbs-at-night-fat-loss-killer-or-imaginary-boogeyman/

lolz - just noticed that the earlier article I posted was actually posted on the first page...derp.


Here is a review of the anabolic effects of GH from the British Journal of Sports Medicine for people concerned about GH being suppressed by eating at night.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/37/2/100.full

Did you cite the wrong article? I read the entire thing and it was basically just speaking to the issue of taking exogenous GH. No one here was advocating any artificial use of rhGH--so why go there? The article actually affirmed that the majority of our natural supply comes during sleep but nothing further was said about it. It did mention that exercise does stimulate natural GH production, but other research has revealed that nighttime secretion is still the most plenteous.

That was not the reason I posted it.

Then, would you like to reveal your purpose?

I though that my post explained that when I said:

"Here is a review of the anabolic effects of GH from the British Journal of Sports Medicine for people concerned about GH being suppressed by eating at night."

But the article did not speak to that.

Does not speak to what?

The issue of natural GH being suppressed by eating a lot before bed.

I never said it did

Then why did you mention it?

I said why in my post

No, you didn't, but I'm unwilling to argue the point any further.

what if you don't eat pork belly... is there a chicken belly or beef belly... is the science the same???

Absolutely the same, yes. Consider the chicken. Chicken breast - big, heavy, dense. That little clucker is going to go straight to fat the moment you lay down and it settles. Now; chicken nuggets? Well the clue's in the name...nuggets....they're little and light. Barely there in fact. There's literally no chance that a chicken nugget is going to settle quickly and turn to fat.

what if you don't eat pork belly... is there a chicken belly or beef belly... is the science the same???

Absolutely the same, yes. Consider the chicken. Chicken breast - big, heavy, dense. That little clucker is going to go straight to fat the moment you lay down and it settles. Now; chicken nuggets? Well the clue's in the name...nuggets....they're little and light. Barely there in fact. There's literally no chance that a chicken nugget is going to settle quickly and turn to fat.

Here is a summary about the reality of night time eating from a bodybuilder with a PHd in Nutritional sciences.

http://www.biolayne.com/nutrition/carbs-at-night-fat-loss-killer-or-imaginary-boogeyman/

lolz - just noticed that the earlier article I posted was actually posted on the first page...derp.


Here is a review of the anabolic effects of GH from the British Journal of Sports Medicine for people concerned about GH being suppressed by eating at night.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/37/2/100.full

Did you cite the wrong article? I read the entire thing and it was basically just speaking to the issue of taking exogenous GH. No one here was advocating any artificial use of rhGH--so why go there? The article actually affirmed that the majority of our natural supply comes during sleep but nothing further was said about it. It did mention that exercise does stimulate natural GH production, but other research has revealed that nighttime secretion is still the most plenteous.

That was not the reason I posted it.

Then, would you like to reveal your purpose?

I though that my post explained that when I said:

"Here is a review of the anabolic effects of GH from the British Journal of Sports Medicine for people concerned about GH being suppressed by eating at night."

But the article did not speak to that.

Does not speak to what?

The issue of natural GH being suppressed by eating a lot before bed.

I never said it did

Then why did you mention it?

I said why in my post

No, you didn't, but I'm unwilling to argue the point any further.

That is your opinion. Maybe you just did not read it the right way.

Because math.

Here is a summary about the reality of night time eating from a bodybuilder with a PHd in Nutritional sciences.

http://www.biolayne.com/nutrition/carbs-at-night-fat-loss-killer-or-imaginary-boogeyman/

lolz - just noticed that the earlier article I posted was actually posted on the first page...derp.


Here is a review of the anabolic effects of GH from the British Journal of Sports Medicine for people concerned about GH being suppressed by eating at night.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/37/2/100.full

Did you cite the wrong article? I read the entire thing and it was basically just speaking to the issue of taking exogenous GH. No one here was advocating any artificial use of rhGH--so why go there? The article actually affirmed that the majority of our natural supply comes during sleep but nothing further was said about it. It did mention that exercise does stimulate natural GH production, but other research has revealed that nighttime secretion is still the most plenteous.

That was not the reason I posted it.

Then, would you like to reveal your purpose?

I though that my post explained that when I said:

"Here is a review of the anabolic effects of GH from the British Journal of Sports Medicine for people concerned about GH being suppressed by eating at night."

But the article did not speak to that.

Does not speak to what?

The issue of natural GH being suppressed by eating a lot before bed.

I never said it did

Then why did you mention it?

I said why in my post

No, you didn't, but I'm unwilling to argue the point any further.

That is your opinion. Maybe you just did not read it the right way.

And maybe what you implied was just wrong.

Here is a summary about the reality of night time eating from a bodybuilder with a PHd in Nutritional sciences.

http://www.biolayne.com/nutrition/carbs-at-night-fat-loss-killer-or-imaginary-boogeyman/

lolz - just noticed that the earlier article I posted was actually posted on the first page...derp.


Here is a review of the anabolic effects of GH from the British Journal of Sports Medicine for people concerned about GH being suppressed by eating at night.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/37/2/100.full

Did you cite the wrong article? I read the entire thing and it was basically just speaking to the issue of taking exogenous GH. No one here was advocating any artificial use of rhGH--so why go there? The article actually affirmed that the majority of our natural supply comes during sleep but nothing further was said about it. It did mention that exercise does stimulate natural GH production, but other research has revealed that nighttime secretion is still the most plenteous.

That was not the reason I posted it.

Then, would you like to reveal your purpose?

I though that my post explained that when I said:

"Here is a review of the anabolic effects of GH from the British Journal of Sports Medicine for people concerned about GH being suppressed by eating at night."

But the article did not speak to that.

Does not speak to what?

The issue of natural GH being suppressed by eating a lot before bed.

I never said it did

Then why did you mention it?

I said why in my post

No, you didn't, but I'm unwilling to argue the point any further.

That is your opinion. Maybe you just did not read it the right way.

And maybe what you implied was just wrong.

Nope. Sorry that you did not understand.

ETA: I thought that you were not going to argue the point any further.

I guess it depends on the person. I have lost 55 lbs while working the night shift and eating my last meal about an hour before I go to sleep.

I am no expert, but I do live by Jillian Micheals rules. She says NO food after 9 and no CARBS after 7. Your body will simply turn it into fat. Even sugary food. Her thing is to eat yogurt if you neeed a snack-greek low fat of course. It works! If I am watching Hell's Kitchen and have nothing to eat I get so pissed, so I eat yogurt or carrot/celery with hummus. Then I dont feel deprived. And no booze before bed. She has it down for 2 drinks a WEEK. And beer or a lowfat vodka drink. I suggest bubblegum vodka with club soda. Lowfat, tastes great and a nice mellow buzz. Does that kinda help? lol