Myth or True: Eating after 6pm

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  • KingFish1997
    KingFish1997 Posts: 14 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    RWClary wrote: »
    KingFish1997 wrote: »
    Is eating post 6pm harmful to dieting or does it make a difference? I've heard that it's not good cause it all turns into sugar. Educate me.
    In general this is a myth, but....
    Anybody else have night cravings?
    It stinks to do well all day only to blow out the diet at 10pm.

    I plan for this.

    Dinner at about 8 pm.

    First snack at about 10 pm.

    Second snack at about midnight.

    And if I'm still up at 1 or 1:30 am, and if I have enough calories, I might even have a third snack. Like I did last night, for example. :)

    Thank you
  • gcaracciolo2
    gcaracciolo2 Posts: 130 Member
    The bulk of my calories are consumed after 7pm :)
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    I'm usually up at around 8 or 9 am, I have my first meal sometime between 12:30 and 2 pm, dinner at or after 7, a snack, then another snack or small meal after midnight. The 80 lbs I just dropped can't be wrong. The key is to find out what meal sizes and times suit you, your appetite, and your lifestyle, and plan out your calories accordingly.
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    Myth. Though granted I can't eat after 8pm as it screws with my sleep patterns but that's a weird thing my body does. If you can eat after then, rock on!
  • Bob314159
    Bob314159 Posts: 1,178 Member
    Must be a myth since I'm losing weight, I'm eating dinner at midnight today- maybe a late night snack at 1am then bedtime.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,284 Member
    It is extremely rare for me to eat dinner before 6 pm and next to never that I don't eat anything after 6 pm.

    Lost weight as planned and then maintained for 2 years doing above.
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    If this were true, the entire country of Spain, where people regularly eat at midnight, would be morbidly obese.

    In South America, where dinner at nine or ten is completely normal? Also not a continent of fatties.

    I always have dinner after nine because I am generally still at the gym until at least that time. I have lost over 90 pounds and have maintained that loss.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,992 Member
    Myth. The reason why it exists is because people MEET their calorie requirement at dinner and then continue to eat after dinner. That then becomes a calorie surplus.
    Timing of meals DOESN'T matter. Just total calorie count at the end of the day.

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  • KingFish1997
    KingFish1997 Posts: 14 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Myth. The reason why it exists is because people MEET their calorie requirement at dinner and then continue to eat after dinner. That then becomes a calorie surplus.
    Timing of meals DOESN'T matter. Just total calorie count at the end of the day.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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    Well put. Thank you
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    How does a steak turn into sugar?

    What is going on in the world?....
  • jandsstevenson887
    jandsstevenson887 Posts: 296 Member
    This is why I believe most diets are all the same. All this does is create a calorie deficit by people cutting out that last snack of the day, ice cream, popcorn, whatever.
  • KingFish1997
    KingFish1997 Posts: 14 Member
    eldamiano wrote: »
    How does a steak turn into sugar?

    What is going on in the world?....

    LOL Exactly
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  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    Myth.

    It doesn't matter when you eat as long as you don't go over your alloted calories.

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