MYTH OR TRUTH!?!

OMGeeeHorses
OMGeeeHorses Posts: 732 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
You should eat your heavier meal as your lunch and have a delicate meal for dinner as its easier to digest when you sleep at night?

Is this truth or myth? I have always wondered this as I have a ton of friends in my life telling me to do this, that it will make a difference in how my body burns things :) thanks!!

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  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    You should eat your heavier meal as your lunch and have a delicate meal for dinner as its easier to digest when you sleep at night?

    Is this truth or myth? I have always wondered this as I have a ton of friends in my life telling me to do this, that it will make a difference in how my body burns things :) thanks!!

    It won't make a difference as far as net fat gain/loss assuming the same total intake.

    It may make a difference in how you feel and/or how you perform and for this reason I would let your preferences decide how you do it.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Calories in, calories out. I eat a super tiny breakfast and a bigass dinner, and then snack until bed.
  • JTS_go
    JTS_go Posts: 65 Member
    It may depend on your own daily rhythms. I've heard something recently about a study that says a longer stretch of time in the evenings (including sleep period) without eating can help ( http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/18/science/la-sci-fasting-diet-20120518 ), but I think lab studies oversimplify the human body's process in order to stay within the regimental requirements of the scientific process.

    I do know that if I have a good lunch, and then something smaller right after I get home from work (between 6-7), I'm not hungry for the rest of the night, and I actually feel hungry for breakfast when I wake up, which feels good. If I delay dinner until later, my cravings for less-good choices increase significantly.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    You should eat your heavier meal as your lunch and have a delicate meal for dinner as its easier to digest when you sleep at night?

    Is this truth or myth? I have always wondered this as I have a ton of friends in my life telling me to do this, that it will make a difference in how my body burns things :) thanks!!

    It won't make a difference as far as net fat gain/loss assuming the same total intake.

    It may make a difference in how you feel and/or how you perform and for this reason I would let your preferences decide how you do it.

    Listen to this guy :)
  • LucyT4dieting
    LucyT4dieting Posts: 284 Member
    As we are all individuals, each person gets to decide for themselves what works best for them. Try experimenting a little to see how you feel after eating a small lunch and big dinner vs. a larger lunch and smaller dinner or even a larger breakfast and smaller lunch and dinner. Give it a few days before you decide. The bottom line is calories in/calories out.
  • alondrasilva10
    alondrasilva10 Posts: 63
    Calories in, calories out. I eat a super tiny breakfast and a bigass dinner, and then snack until bed.

    I also do this. They say the most important meal of the day is breakfast but I do not care. MY most important meal of the day is dinner :)
  • OMGeeeHorses
    OMGeeeHorses Posts: 732 Member
    Well I know what I am doing :), I was just wondering if this was a truth or myth type thing. I tried doing a smaller dinner yesterday as my lunch was a HUGE meal because its normally after I exercise and my stomach is growling and well when I did this I got a MAJOR headache. I drank tons of water that day so I know it wasn't due to hydration...so only thing I changed was the way I ate.
  • pickledginger
    pickledginger Posts: 172
    Mostly, I suspect it varies a lot from one person to another - metabolism isn't quite so one-size-fits-all as they used to think, back when all the studies used healthy, fit, 20-ish males.
    Based on the studies I have seen lately, what does seem to make a difference is breakfast - carbs at breakfast seem to have maybe twice the effect on blood sugar as carbs eaten at any other meal, perhaps because they interact with the body's WakeUp-WakeUp morning surge in blood sugar. And protein at any meal seems to tend to increase alertness, while carbs tend to promote relaxation and Zzzzz ...

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