Eating Late?

As long as there are a few hours (3-4) before you go to sleep its fine! Drink water after you eat. Yeah thats fine, it only get bad when your eating right before you go to bed or if you wake up for midnight snack and go back to sleep.

I call baloney. I very regularly take my last food in 10-30 minutes before hitting my bed and I'm losing weight. The whole not eating before bedtime thing is an old myth that refuses to die.

Actually the idea that eating late is hurting weight-loss is one huge gigantic myth!!!
Personally I eat about 75% of my daily calories after 5pm and I eat right up to the time I go to bed.

Honestly the logic behind this myth baffles me. It's not like our metabolism just shuts down at night, our body is rebuilding muscle, and our brain is actually at it's most active while we sleep. (our brain alone needs 100 grams of glucose daily)
Our metabolism is running 24 hours a day, sure it's running at a higher rate when we are active but it's not dead. Don't forget you will be fasting for the 7-8 hours you sleep, so if you stop eating for 2-3 hours before you go to bed you are looking at 10 hours without food at a very crucial time for your brain and muscles. This causes stress, cortisol increase, and catabolism for your muscles.

I eat mainly protein calories before 5pm, because protein really ignites our metabolism, and by avoiding carbs my body is forced to burn my storage energy, fat and glycogen, all day long.

Then at night when I eat the majority of my carbs I re-store some glycogen too for my workout the following day.

From my experience this way has caused the highest levels of fat-burning. You should never go to bed hungry, unless you want to stress out your system. Plus it's great eating a regular family dinner, and snacking while watching tv before bed.

He's right! I'm going to school to become a dietitian and I asked on of my professors about it (who's a registered dietitian) and she said it's a myth. It was probably started as a way to keep people who are late night snackers who can't seem to stop mindlessly snacking. Your metabolism does not slow down significantly enough to affect your weight loss. Eat whenever you want during the day, as long as you don't go over your calorie goal! I mean, think about the people in Europe. In Spain they eat dinner around 9 pm and they're all so thin

if youre hungry at night, then you need food.
I eat my main meal fairly late, and its never a problem.
If i eat it earlier, i always need to snack again later anyway

I often eat late and regularly have a snack around 10. It's not stopped my wieght loss. I just can't go to sleep with my tummy rumbling and if i don't have something that is what will happen.

Totally fine to eat late. Eating times vary hugely across cultures. I live in Spain and people don't have dinner until 10pm (admittedly dinner is small and lunch is the main meal of the day).

I eat late and so far it hasn't hampered my weight loss either. My schedule just doesn't allow me to eat at a normal time. I have 3 kids that are all very active in sports and we don't get home until after 7:30 most nights. Dinner can be as late as 9 at my house.