snack at night

kristinc89
kristinc89 Posts: 27 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Ive always heard that it bad to eat anything after 8pm but I was wondering if that true if I grab a snack like a apple or orange?

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  • herblackwings39
    herblackwings39 Posts: 3,930 Member
    The timing of meals doesn't really matter unless eating close to bedtime messes up your sleep.
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    Meal timing is largely irrelevant, especially when you are eating at a deficit.

    Throughout my weight loss, I ate whenever it suited me, sometimes having dinner at 9:00 or later, especially after going to the gym after work.

    Basically, your body is always shuffling calories around . storing some when you don't need them, using the stored ones when you need some and don't have any food readily available. If you are eating at a deficit, your net result would be weight loss.

    Of course, if eating late causes you to have poor sleep, or if you have issues like acid reflux, then you need to do what works for you. In my case, eating late does not affect my sleep.

    ETA: In fact, it's 9:00 PM here and I had a snack while writing this :bigsmile:
  • Marcolter
    Marcolter Posts: 103 Member
    I just read this week about food myths and it said late snack eating turns to fat is a myth. It said that it might even help for your body to maintain an even calorie burn. But that is why we are here. You can monitor if you still have your quota to fill. I just started here 4weeks ago and have a snack every night from 8 to 10 depending if I ate dinner 4pm or 6pm, and I have consistently lost 2 to 3 lbs per week. I still have my food diary OK and I exercise an my snack is either dry air popcorn, with nutritional yeast ( cheesy flavor ) and my popcorn is just dry kernels in an ordinary brown lunch bag in the microwave no fat. ( Microwave packaged popcorn is so not needed with strange additives). Or I snack on a smoothy or fruity home made frozen yogurt. Nothing fatty unless it is my own peanut butter I make out of dry roasted peanuts and it is not oily. There is no separation of oil.
  • Roarmiaka
    Roarmiaka Posts: 25 Member
    i use to meal at night and that was probably the worst thing for me when i didnt care about losing weight, but i still kinda have the inclination to eat before bed, so what i've been doing is having a salad or popcorn(without salt and butter) to curb my appetite. helps alot!
  • SaintGiff
    SaintGiff Posts: 3,679 Member
    Your body cannot tell time.
  • cheripugh1
    cheripugh1 Posts: 357 Member
    I am a diabetic and therefore cannot NOT eat past 8pm I have to try to keep my calories evenly spaced, so no, what time you eat is not going to stop your wt. loss.
  • rocknlotsofrolls
    rocknlotsofrolls Posts: 418 Member
    HOGWASH! I busted that myth. It's overall calories that matter, not when you eat them.

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