Snacking at night

aprilflower18232
aprilflower18232 Posts: 205 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
How important is it to not eat anything after dinner? I'm not talking about chips, ice cream , cookies or anything like that...I'm talking about yogurt, cereal, veggies or fruit? I've heard a lot if negative talk about it...just curious if weight loss is still possible with a little snack?

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  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    See ticker. I eat about 75% of my calories within an hour of bed. Every day.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    meal timing has nothing to do with weight loss or metabolism..

    so eat whenever you want to ...
  • Stage14
    Stage14 Posts: 1,046 Member
    Your body actually has no sense of time (which is why you get jet lag when you travel to somewhere in a different time zone). It doesn't suddenly switch up and start working differently at 8pm or sunset or once you eat dinner.
  • 4theking
    4theking Posts: 1,196 Member
    It can affect some of your hormones but you will still lose weight provided a caloric deficit.
  • LaurenAOK
    LaurenAOK Posts: 2,475 Member
    Like everyone else has said, calories determine weight loss, not when you eat. I LOVE snacking at night. It's practically a staple for me. It's usually not healthy snacks, either. And I've never had a problem losing weight.
  • ArtemisRuns
    ArtemisRuns Posts: 251 Member
    For me, if I snack at night I am likely to make bad choices so I try to avoid it. It's a trigger for me (eating at night). It makes me want to eat fatty, salt foods and drink beer. LOL
  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    As long as your total calorie intake for the day including said snacking is at or under your calorie goal than your find, makes no difference when you eat or how big your meals are...
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    I like to leave room in my calories for mindless TV snacking. So says my food diary log. My only issue is spicey stuff leads to odd dreams.

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  • taryn_09
    taryn_09 Posts: 196 Member
    i eat everynight in the middle of the night 2 times.

    i just allot it into my calories daily.
    the body doesnt know time just in vs out.

    so snack away keep fueling just watch what you eat.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    i eat everynight in the middle of the night 2 times.

    i just allot it into my calories daily.
    the body doesnt know time just in vs out.

    so snack away keep fueling just watch what you eat.

    I get what you are saying however, how our body knows it's 24 hours so 1200 (or 2000 cal) is up?
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,328 Member
    i eat everynight in the middle of the night 2 times.

    i just allot it into my calories daily.
    the body doesnt know time just in vs out.

    so snack away keep fueling just watch what you eat.

    I get what you are saying however, how our body knows it's 24 hours so 1200 (or 2000 cal) is up?

    It really doesn't you could just as easily go with a weekly counting and seek for a weekly deficit and it would all average out. The 24 hours is more so it is convenient for us to figure out, but if you ate 200 calories over your goal today, 200 less tomorrow, and at your goal all the other days, the weekly weight deficit and weight loss would be the same.
  • warrenrose12
    warrenrose12 Posts: 22 Member
    Calorie deficit is one thing and i was led to believe night snacking was a no no to, but apparently not judging by the comments here, i,m still undecided on this one. :)
  • DeeDeeMee
    DeeDeeMee Posts: 133 Member
    I think the general thinking around the advice not to is that you generally need most of your energy earlier in the day, so eating late at night means you're kinda wasting it and it's more likely to be stored, or something. But I've noticed that most of that sort of advice is to try to help people from really piling on the pounds by eating heaps throughout the day and then eating even more at night.

    As other people have already said, if you prefer your intake at this time of day and don't find that it affects your energy levels and makes you eat more in the long run there won't be a problem. It's all about calories in and out, not what time it is.

    :)
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    I think the general thinking around the advice not to is that you generally need most of your energy earlier in the day, so eating late at night means you're kinda wasting it and it's more likely to be stored, or something. But I've noticed that most of that sort of advice is to try to help people from really piling on the pounds by eating heaps throughout the day and then eating even more at night.

    As other people have already said, if you prefer your intake at this time of day and don't find that it affects your energy levels and makes you eat more in the long run there won't be a problem. It's all about calories in and out, not what time it is.

    :)

    I can operate without food throughout the 8 hour shift during the day and dinner is something I can never give up...

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