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Is it okay to eat fruit past 8pm?

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  • Posts: 1,337 Member
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    I thought alcohol made things look bad in the morning..??

    No, STOPPING the alcohol makes things look bad in the morning.
  • Posts: 10,759 Member
    Although eating before you sleep if you are under your calorie goal deficit will not be an issue, from personal experience... it's honestly not the best idea to eat 2-3 hours before you sleep. I don't know all of the scientific reasoning behind it so I cannot explain it to you all, but having food in your stomach digesting while you sleep is just a no no ... DARE I SAY, it may be linked as a cancer causing issue.
    That was daring and sounds legit too.:wink:
  • Posts: 1,337 Member
    Unfortunately your fruit eating window closes at 8 PM...Fortunately the ice cream window opens!

    I visited the ice cream window tonight. By the time I got home from my Zumba class and ate my dinner, the fruit window guy had left to go get a pack of cigarettes.

    The ice cream man never lets me down.
  • Posts: 29,136 Member
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    I visited the ice cream window tonight. By the time I got home from my Zumba class and ate my dinner, the fruit window guy had left to go get a pack of cigarettes.

    The ice cream man never lets me down.

    ice cream window? Is that like the candy shop...?
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    For this GIF - :love:

    Ah yes, this GIF <3. Also this thread has made my night. Been hearing about the "don't eat at night" thing for so long. Not like that ever stopped me, but now I can stop feeling guilty about it.
  • Posts: 24 Member
    Yep its fine.

    I will add though that if you are like me and have a set time in the morning when you weigh yourself then (and I choose my words carefully) the numbers on the scales will be affected in my experiance if you have a late night snack compared to if you don't.

    So I choose not to eat past 7 as at the moment in my journey as I have always weighed myself at 6:15am in the morning so I have a consistant (relative) weight record. I do not think that 200g of fruit (or food) at night will cause actually weight gain at night (if still within my deficit)
  • Posts: 6 Member
    No. You are not allowed to eat anything after 8pm. Your body is highly sensitive to the time of day, the season, and the phase of the moon. Depending on these specific variables, it will be instantly turned into fat.
  • Posts: 8,059 Member
    Really O.o? I literally just learned that your body puts ATP into temporary reserves and after about eight hours or so if it is not used up it is deposited as fat for long-term storage.. therefore if you eat sleep directly after it (even though sleeping and just existing does burn calories) you'd have a surplus of ATP which your body assumes you don't need immediately.

    And from what I understand, sugars/monosaccarides/carbohydrates all go through glycolysis/krebs cycle/oxidative phosphorylation as well as proteins and lipids (though they join in at a later point)... so it shouldn't matter what you eat it all ultimately gets converted into ATP in one way or another which would be stored (converted?) long-term as fat if there was a surplus of ATP (energy).

    I'm not saying "No you're wrong, it's not a myth," I'm legitimately curious as to what made you think it was a myth? My current understanding supports it, but university-level bio isn't necessarily the most reliable source xD and I'd love to be corrected now rather than keep this knowledge into a medical career and find that I was misinformed.
    You're leaving out the incredibly important part about the person in question tracking calories and being in a calorie deficit. There is no chance for long term fat storage, because there is not a surplus of energy, there is a deficit.
  • Posts: 8,059 Member
    Fruits contain sugar. The body's biggest production spurts of growth hormone occur during the early hours of sleep, and high blood sugar levels inhibit growth hormone release. Cottage cheese should be fine before bed though.
    It's actually insulin that can inhibit growth hormone. Cottage cheese also spikes insulin, so if fruit is a bad idea, so is cottage cheese. Neither are bad ideas, as insulin is actually a necessary part of growth hormone regulation, they work together.
  • Posts: 1 Member
    A calorie is not a calorie, but you can eat whenever you want.
  • Posts: 640 Member
    After some good nights out I find pineapple on my pizza really helps me out!
  • Posts: 29,136 Member
    A calorie is not a calorie, but you can eat whenever you want.

    its not? then what is a calorie?
  • Posts: 793 Member
    Ever see the movie Gremlins ? As long as it's before midnight - lol
  • Posts: 88 Member
    no, eating anything past 8pm would go straight to your belly.
    ....
    just kidding, I finish work around 10pm and I would have a 600 cal smoothies 1 hr before bed and I still lose weight and has flat belly
  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    night eating packs on pounds. My cut off time is 7pm..... The scale notices!

    LOL...no, just no.

    I eat my entire dinner at 8:30/9:00 PM and go to bed at 10. I've lost 35 Lbs. Meal timing is irrelevant...I burn roughly 2600 calories in a 24 hour period...why the hell would it matter what time of day I ate them?
  • Posts: 245 Member
    My step-daughter told my wife that she shouldn't eat fruit after 2pm. My wife is going to be very happy to find out that the cut-off is actually at 8pm instead!
  • Posts: 550 Member
    No It's only ok to eat Ice cream past 8pm
  • Posts: 1,043 Member
    night eating packs on pounds. My cut off time is 7pm..... The scale notices!

    I've lost 50 pounds, and I eat past 8 pm, and even later. Doesn't matter.
  • Posts: 520 Member
    lol not its not ok to eat ANYTHING after 8pm. it sits in your stomach and as you sleep your body spends time breaking that down instead of breaking down your fat because believe it or not you burn calories while you sleep

    *facepalm

    It's 11:16 PM and I've just had a half a watermelon as dessert, as it's a habit of mine.

    Has it hampered my body's ability to burn fat? I beg to differ.
  • Posts: 626 Member
    Yes, it's fine.

    BUT.

    I was told by a friend with a history of body building that eating too many carbs late at night before going to sleep will make it harder to shed those last few pounds. She also recommended eating more calories early in the day and before / after workouts.
  • Posts: 34,415 Member
    Yes, it's fine.

    BUT.

    I was told by a friend with a history of body building that eating too many carbs late at night before going to sleep will make it harder to shed those last few pounds. She also recommended eating more calories early in the day and before / after workouts.

    Your friend is wrong...regardless of her profession/hobby...still wrong.
  • Posts: 6,997 Member
    Weeeell... It's 10:45 and I just finished eating grapes. I have a feeling things are gonna be ok.
  • Posts: 732 Member
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    No.
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    NO!

    If you are within your calorie goal, you will NOT gain weight!

    100% agree
  • Posts: 708 Member
    NO FRUIT EVER! too much sugar tumblr_inline_mfx509HarN1rxj1w9.gif

    I kid. Eat it. its fruit.. its good for you
  • Posts: 1,687 Member
    IMO always!!! ( even if you're over)
  • Posts: 202 Member
    Yes. Just no food or water after midnight or you'll turn into a gremlin.
  • Posts: 4 Member
    I was always told that I shouldn't eat past 7 pm cause it automatically changes to fat. Very happy to know this is just another old wives tale. Bring on the fruit!
  • Posts: 854 Member
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    Please be kidding.


    I was thinking the same.
  • Posts: 56 Member
    lol not its not ok to eat ANYTHING after 8pm. it sits in your stomach and as you sleep your body spends time breaking that down instead of breaking down your fat because believe it or not you burn calories while you sleep

    lmfao...joke
  • Posts: 32 Member
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    ummm I just checked page ten of Dr Oz's raspberry ketone while doing handstand cleanse, and yes this is correct 8oz increments or the excess fluids turn into fat molecules which automatically converts your muscle to fat...and trust me, you don't want that to happen....

    Thanks for the laughter folks! :)
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