Eating dinner late 7:00 - 8:30 pm ...is it bad

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  • chezzac17
    chezzac17 Posts: 98 Member
    mrsmay1986 wrote: »
    My husband and I eat dinner at 10:00 at night sometimes. Unfortunately, we have opposite schedules and insist on eating dinner together. It's very important to us to have dinner together. Sometimes we eat at 6:00...it just depends when he's done with work. He's a server at a restaurant by our house and he's also a pharmacy technician for CVS. His hours are different every day. I however work 9am-5pm M-F...I wish we could eat at 6:00 every night, but it's not feasible. Just make responsible food choices, and I think you should be just fine...good luck to you on your journey! :)

    thanks mrsmay1986...the world we live in today is sooo different than it was ,and its the norm now to work odd hours ,nights & weekends..and you are right we have to adapt and work with it...food wise I mean.....lol......best wishes to you to on this journey of life....
  • chezzac17
    chezzac17 Posts: 98 Member
    RaspberryTickleChicken wrote: »
    Personally I prefer to eat my dinner later so that I'm nice & full and be satisfied enough not needing a snack before bed. :)

    Hi there...luv your reasoning,sure makes sense,,,cause when you do eat early ..you start to look for something else to eat later in the night hahaaaaa......thanks for the tips !
  • sammiburtenshaw1
    sammiburtenshaw1 Posts: 1 Member
    chezzac17 wrote: »
    when my husband cooks our dinner he always wants dinner late,and I like dinner early...but is it bad to eat later at night???


    Ive always been told you shouldn't eat 3 hours before you go to bed, as the food will sit in your stomach and store as fat, because your not burning it off because you're sleeping!
  • eatsyork
    eatsyork Posts: 71 Member
    I figure animals in nature chow down and then go have a nap so it can't be so bad. There aren't a lot of fat wild animals. I usually eat more than half my daily calories between 7 PM and midnight and I've still lost weight.

    Also food doesn't sit in your stomach when you sleep. Your body still digests. Once it's broken down it can be used to replenish glycogen, repair muscle, store as fat, maintain your brain and heart function while you sleep, etc. Your body doesn't shut down just because you aren't walking. It's still going strong. We almost never burn food real-time as we eat it unless you're doing some heavy endurance event and pounding glucose or MCTs.
  • lisaw19855
    lisaw19855 Posts: 165 Member
    Depends on what you're used to, eating at about 630 is right for me. Any earlier and I want to pick later but any later and I get over hungry then wake up starving.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    fizzleh wrote: »
    You should generally not eat 4 hours before you sleep

    why not?
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I always wonder who these people are and what they do that they can be done eating by 6 PM or whatever...hell, I'm still at the office half the time at 6 PM. Good thing you don't turn into a pumpkin or anything eating late...I eat at 8:30 - 9:00 pretty much every night going on a good 15 years now.
  • JeffseekingV
    JeffseekingV Posts: 3,165 Member
    The only thing I've noticed is if I stuff myself before bed, I wake up really hungry the next morning.
  • chezzac17
    chezzac17 Posts: 98 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I always wonder who these people are and what they do that they can be done eating by 6 PM or whatever...hell, I'm still at the office half the time at 6 PM. Good thing you don't turn into a pumpkin or anything eating late...I eat at 8:30 - 9:00 pretty much every night going on a good 15 years now.

    hahaaaaaaaaaaa......your funny..thanks again guys....
  • chezzac17
    chezzac17 Posts: 98 Member
    JeffseekingV wrote: »
    The only thing I've noticed is if I stuff myself before bed, I wake up really hungry the next morning.

    yes that's true..
  • chezzac17
    chezzac17 Posts: 98 Member
    eatsyork wrote: »
    I figure animals in nature chow down and then go have a nap so it can't be so bad. There aren't a lot of fat wild animals. I usually eat more than half my daily calories between 7 PM and midnight and I've still lost weight.

    Also food doesn't sit in your stomach when you sleep. Your body still digests. Once it's broken down it can be used to replenish glycogen, repair muscle, store as fat, maintain your brain and heart function while you sleep, etc. Your body doesn't shut down just because you aren't walking. It's still going strong. We almost never burn food real-time as we eat it unless you're doing some heavy endurance event and pounding glucose or MCTs.

    true true true..great post thanks...
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