No eating after 6pm
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There is no scientific evidence to suggest that eating any particular times aids or hinders weight loss. Your body doesn't just shut down at night.
Maybe the body doesnt shut down at night which may mean you wake up dead the next morning :-) But I am sure the body goes into sleep mode :-) Makes me wonder what is happening with the digestive tract during sleep mode. I understand the body goes into repair mode and would food in the stomach hinder this in some way.0 -
no eating when you are over your daily calories. Time of day is irrelevant0
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Your body never stops working even at rest, just make sure you don't eat a pile of junk before bed, slow carbs work the best, veggies, air popped popcorn things like that. That way your body is releasing a slow amount of energy through out the night, and you won't want to get up at 2 am looking for a quick fix like chips and ice cream! Been there done that!0
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pssht. Everyone knows the rule is midnight, because...gremlins.
Seriously though, I consume at least 75% of my daily intake after 6pm.0 -
I think that is an old myth. I don't get home until 5pm, and by the time I get settled and cook, we don't eat until 6:30 or 7pm. I lost the most weight when I was on 2nd shift actually. Lunch was at 6pm and dinner was at around 11:30pm.0
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GiveMeCoffee wrote: »If this was true... what happens to 3rd shift workers? Or if I travel into a different time zone?
Some people have stomach issues if they eat too close to laying down, other than that no reason not to. I take my nightly dessert into bed with me and fall asleep pretty shortly after consuming it. I will say only bad time to eat is while sleeping it's a safety hazard.
when you go to a different time zone your metabolism reverses itself to compensate …
this is called "reverse metabolism theory of time zone adjustment" < I thought everyone knew that?
'cos it sounds all official I shall instantly believe in this and assume it scientifically proven0 -
Its no eating after midnight. Nice try Spike.
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rigglemanamanda wrote: »Your body never stops working even at rest, just make sure you don't eat a pile of junk before bed, slow carbs work the best, veggies, air popped popcorn things like that. That way your body is releasing a slow amount of energy through out the night, and you won't want to get up at 2 am looking for a quick fix like chips and ice cream! Been there done that!
I've never resorted to eating junk...
But I enjoy my gelato, cookie or whatever other dessert and haven't had any issues.0 -
I usually eat dinner around 5:30pm. Then I have a small snack before I go to bed around 8:00pm. But, that has more to do with the fact that I wouldn't be able to fall asleep with a full stomach. I also eat early because my day starts around 4:30am when I get up.
Plus; wouldn't the time people actually end their day and go to bed, matter so much more than some arbitrary time like 6:00pm?0 -
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You could look at the intermittent fasting groups. While there is no particular time issues - there are those that try to eat all of their food within a 6-8 hour time span and then eat nothing the remaining hours. This helps them restrict calories (it really is all CICO but how you limit CI without going crazy is why there are so many options) and they believe that once you get closer to your ideal weight, the body resists mobilizing fat stores until there has been a certain number of hours deficit. I don't want to try it - but keep considering. . .0
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Great. I would be rail thin with that plan. I have zero time for food after lunch at 12. I usually have dinner at around 8:00, when I get home from the gym, work, and commute.0
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I wonder if your pensioner gets up early and goes to bed early. So six is late in the day for him.
My dad was often up at 5am. We always always always had supper at 5pm. Never later. But around 8pm both he and my mom would have a cup of coffee and some kind of snack before bed - a piece of bread and butter, a piece of coffee cake, a bowl of rice pudding...whatever was around.
Neither one of them were even remotely close to being overweight, but they rarely ate between meals - apart from two small snacks - one in the afternoon when they got home from the school bus run and the one at bedtime. Their snacks were usually the same - cup of coffee, some bread and butter or coffee cake, etc. "Normal" size serving.
Dad ate eggs, bacon fried potatoes for breakfast...sandwich & potato salad for lunch...meat N potatoes for supper. Every meal was accompanied by or included bread and butter. LOL
Dad was a carpenter. He was always busy. Active. Mom was pure nervous energy.
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There is something wonderful about waking up so early. I am out of bed at 4.30am and find I have so much time I can spend on my family and myself. Bed at 9.30pm so I have enough sleep. It is all about training the body.0
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OK,
The reason is not that you stop eating after a certain time. It is because you stopped eating, and are consuming less calories per day.
Mindless eating all day and stopping at 6, vs Mindless eating all day and stopping at 12:00 midnight. One will consume more.
Eating all of your calories at 11:59 pm would still allow you to lose weight.0 -
I don't eat after 8pm. It works for me. I find that the next day I wake up, my metabolism is ready to go. When I eat right before bed, especially carbs/sugar, I'll wake up feeling sick and not hungry for healthy food, but craving sweets instead. I think having an eating curfew is a good way to implement self discipline, but it's an unpopular idea on MFP, because everyone is obsessed with numbers here.0
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I eat most of my calories after 6PM. Probably around 75% of them.0
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I'm not supposed to eat 2 hours before bed, due to digestive issues...which has nothing to do with my weight loss. With that being said, I get home most days after 6:45pm, and dinner is usually around 7:30pm. I am doing just fine on my weight loss journey. I've always been a night-eater, at my "skinniest" and my "fattest" ... makes no difference.
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I understand the general principal behind your friend's rule, but think it should be scaled back a bit. In the research I've done around nutrition, avoiding nighttime eating does seem to be a recurring theme. But instead of focusing on not eating at all after a certain time, the idea is more centered around not overeating at night, or saving all of your calories for dinnertime - it's more about proper portioning throughout the entire day. The earlier you eat, the more active time you still have left in the day for your body to burn it off, versus eating - say, half - of your day's calories at night, where the next thing you do is go to sleep.
Here's a great article published in early 2013 by NPR if you'd like it for further reading.
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I don't even get home from work until 6.0
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Different things work for different people. I myself have decided not to eat after 8pm. It has helped me tremendously, but only because I don't SNACK as much!0
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »Last night, at 11pm, I ate a brownie, a serving of beef jerky, some chips, and 5 marshmallow Peeps. I'm losing weight just fine. I've been slim and I've been obese, there was never a time when I didn't eat at night.
Skinny people are skinny because they don't overeat; timing of meals means nothing. People like to point to reasons X Y and Z for why skinny people are skinny, but the truth is, people are skinny because they don't eat as much as fat people, and they move more. Period. There's no other factor to the equation, at least not for the general population. That skinny guy at your work who you watch eating two burgers and fries every day for lunch, he doesn't have a "fast metabolism", he doesn't eat 17 Big Macs as long as it's not after 7pm, he just eats less overall and moves more than someone who eats the same lunch but is overweight.
i will disagree with this. I have known many skinny people who ate like pigs and barely moved more than a sloth. perhaps it will come back to bite them some day, but some people, are naturally skinny (not necessarily HEALTHY, but SKINNY).
^This is my husband. I can't figure it out. He used to have an active job, but now, he doesn't move much all day, but eats like garbage and stays skinny (like...an entire carton of ice cream and a half a box of lucky charms for dinner alone kind of garbage). WTF?! lol @ndj1979, you should start some sort of thread with your thoughts on this. Sometimes you're a little abrasive, but your posts are always insightful and eye-opening!
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Unless you have a problem with acid reflux, sticking to your overall daily calorie allotment is far more important than when you eat those calories. If you want to eat after 6 and it does not result in eating more calories that your allowance for the day, by all means do so.0
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i agree, its not the time of day but the calories consumed. Personally, i struggle NOT to eat at night.0
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it's always worked for me, I have my light dinner at 4pm, no later, and weight loss is easier. Whenever I don't do it, my weight loss stalls. But I prefer breakfast to dinner anyway.0
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MelWick524 wrote: »callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »Last night, at 11pm, I ate a brownie, a serving of beef jerky, some chips, and 5 marshmallow Peeps. I'm losing weight just fine. I've been slim and I've been obese, there was never a time when I didn't eat at night.
Skinny people are skinny because they don't overeat; timing of meals means nothing. People like to point to reasons X Y and Z for why skinny people are skinny, but the truth is, people are skinny because they don't eat as much as fat people, and they move more. Period. There's no other factor to the equation, at least not for the general population. That skinny guy at your work who you watch eating two burgers and fries every day for lunch, he doesn't have a "fast metabolism", he doesn't eat 17 Big Macs as long as it's not after 7pm, he just eats less overall and moves more than someone who eats the same lunch but is overweight.
i will disagree with this. I have known many skinny people who ate like pigs and barely moved more than a sloth. perhaps it will come back to bite them some day, but some people, are naturally skinny (not necessarily HEALTHY, but SKINNY).
^This is my husband. I can't figure it out. He used to have an active job, but now, he doesn't move much all day, but eats like garbage and stays skinny (like...an entire carton of ice cream and a half a box of lucky charms for dinner alone kind of garbage). WTF?! lol @ndj1979, you should start some sort of thread with your thoughts on this. Sometimes you're a little abrasive, but your posts are always insightful and eye-opening!
ps..."abrasive" is a compliment, that's what we need around here lol! cold, hard truth!0 -
I eat 1,000+ calories after 6 pm most nights. If I have an early dinner I'm likely to go over even more. It's not a problem for me and doesn't hinder my weight loss.0
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I don't eat dinner until 7-8 pm every night and usually have a snack between 8 and midnight. Still losing weight. The key is that it fits my calorie goal for the day not what time I eat.
If it works for someone else to stick to their calorie limit and make a rule not to eat after 6 pm or 3 hours before going to bed that is great for them. It does not mean that everyone has to do that to lose weight.0
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