No eating after 6pm!

I work 3 to 10:30 tonight, so I won't even get to have dinner until 11 pm. Not sustainable if you work a varied schedule or plan on going out after dark.

As long as you eat within your calorie limit, you will lose weight no matter when you ate the calories.

Not eating after 6pm could leave you with many hours with no food - I go to sleep at around 12 and would be starving if I did that. Plus I find personally that eating little and often helps me to keep my moods constant. If I eat a large meal and then nothing for a long term I get very moody and annoyed. This is only a trend that I noticed when somebody pointed it out to me, and now that I know it's great that I can keep control over it.

EDIT: During weight loss, my lifestyle at points made that it was unavoidable to have a huge gap of not eating for most of the day. Breakfast, time to grab a quick snack at lunch, and then nothing else until I got home at around half 10. Yes okay, so it's not ideal, and I was cranky as anything, but I still lost weight because my calories were just the same as they would have been if I'd had the same food at different times.

Meal timing has been found to have no effect on weight loss or gain. As long as you are tracking your calories and staying in a deficit, you will lose weight, no matter when you eat.

Watch out. Anything you eat at precisely 6:01 will instantly make you gain weight

Useful post (sarcasm). The OP only asks if other members have done it, nothing more.

It doesn't matter what time you consume your daily calories for weight loss. Perhaps you could look into intermittent fasting to see how some people are successful eating once or twice a day.

The only reason there is that idea of not eating after a certain time is because of the kinds of foods people are more likely to eat once it starts getting late. Other than over eating and eating garbage there's no real reason to not eat after 6

Thanks for the laugh.

My shifts at work are so varied that I can't really control when I eat, I just try to have something at fairly regular intervals.
I have found that, when I get home after a late shift at 11.30pm, If I have a big meal and go straight to bed, I often wake up in the night craving sugar. Don't know why this is, but I now try to have a snack around 7pm whilst at work and just have something small when I get home. If I'm on an early shift however (awake at 5.30 to leave for work at 6.20am) I have less of an appetite throughout the day and have a small breakfast, cup of tea mid-morning and small lunch then have a decent dinner at around 6pm.

6 pm is not some magical time in fat burning world where your body shuts down and everything you eat gets stored to fat. The reason this is brought up so often is because the average person eats their biggest meal of the day (dinner) after/around 6 pm and the average person will not move the rest of the night because they will sit down and watch TV.

You are not an average person. As long as you are under your calorie limit for the day then you will be fine. If bodybuilders who compete can wake up in the middle of the night on purpose to eat then I don't think you should worry about eating after 6pm.

I tried it the pass few days and I found myself over eating today:(

Sounds about right.

Don't do it again. Eat whenever you want.

just wanted to see if u had any positive results from it.

I eat in bed every night and have since a began this journey and have lost a few pounds..... Meal frequency will have no bearing on weight loss... Eat when you can fit in your calories and hit your macros regardless of time of day..... best of luck...

I think it's called eat, stop, eat or intermittent fasting. Some have had great success with it. Just noting what I have read on the subject.