Is it okay to eat fruit past 8pm?

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  • CrazyTrackLady
    CrazyTrackLady Posts: 1,337 Member
    No, eating fruit a second later than 7:59PM turns you into a Gremlin.

    Truestory.

    Could that be why I look terrible in the mornings? :)

    I thought alcohol made things look bad in the morning..??

    No, STOPPING the alcohol makes things look bad in the morning.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,261 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:
  • CrazyTrackLady
    CrazyTrackLady 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.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 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.

    ice cream window? Is that like the candy shop...?
  • BlueHerron89
    BlueHerron89 Posts: 1
    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

    MGTYSJ5.gif

    What everyone else has said - meal timing is irrelevant. Enjoy your fruit!

    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.
  • Pigbear
    Pigbear 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)
  • bratja
    bratja 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.
  • tigersword
    tigersword 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.
  • tigersword
    tigersword 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.
  • ubervillain
    ubervillain Posts: 1 Member
    A calorie is not a calorie, but you can eat whenever you want.
  • Rachlmale
    Rachlmale Posts: 640 Member
    After some good nights out I find pineapple on my pizza really helps me out!
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    A calorie is not a calorie, but you can eat whenever you want.

    its not? then what is a calorie?
  • foxro
    foxro Posts: 793 Member
    Ever see the movie Gremlins ? As long as it's before midnight - lol
  • dr3w_s
    dr3w_s 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
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 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?
  • dondimitri
    dondimitri 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!
  • VeinsAndBones
    VeinsAndBones Posts: 550 Member
    No It's only ok to eat Ice cream past 8pm
  • foleyshirley
    foleyshirley 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.
  • ggxx100
    ggxx100 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.
  • metacognition
    metacognition 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.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 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.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Weeeell... It's 10:45 and I just finished eating grapes. I have a feeling things are gonna be ok.
  • OMGeeeHorses
    OMGeeeHorses Posts: 732 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

    No.
    night eating packs on pounds. My cut off time is 7pm..... The scale notices!

    NO!

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

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

    I kid. Eat it. its fruit.. its good for you
  • mmddwechanged
    mmddwechanged Posts: 1,687 Member
    IMO always!!! ( even if you're over)
  • DirtyTrickster
    DirtyTrickster Posts: 202 Member
    Yes. Just no food or water after midnight or you'll turn into a gremlin.
  • parkeralexis
    parkeralexis 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!
  • ken_hogan
    ken_hogan Posts: 854 Member
    night eating packs on pounds. My cut off time is 7pm..... The scale notices!

    Please be kidding.


    I was thinking the same.
  • Lexandrea
    Lexandrea 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
  • Howl2013
    Howl2013 Posts: 32 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

    This is 100% a myth.
    No, it's true! This is how you can produce free energy from the vacuum and turn a human body into a perpetual motion machine.

    Okay okay... I'm not a scientist... but what you're saying is, if I stop eating after 8pm, I'll never have to sleep?
    If you eat after 8PM, the energy from the food fuels your body during the night... and then during the day your body doesn't have that fuel so it pulls energy from the aether instead.

    Right this is common knowledge...and when your body does not have fuel it goes into starvation mode which can only be reversed by drinking one gallon of raspberry ketones...

    Okay... It's starting to come together... But I've heard that if you don't drink the raspberry ketones in 8 oz increments the excess fluits will automatically turn into fat molecules. Is this true? Or is it okay to drink the gallon all at once?

    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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