What time do you stop eating each night and go to sleep every night?
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crissy976
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I'm wondering how late some of us actually eat something and what time everyone goes to sleep? I usually want a little snack after dinner at about 7:30 and I'm trying to get better with going to sleep a little earlier, as I've read it helps with weight loss. (Hard to do since I'm a night owl). I've been going to bed no later than 11pm, lately, but am trying to make it closer to 10pm. I'll get there... lol. How about you?
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My wife and I usually eat dinner around 8:30/9 PM...usually in bed by 9:30/10 PM...up around 5 AM.1
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I hit the sack at 1 AM and eat at about 12-12:45 AM.2
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I am usually in bed between 11:30 and midnight and I eat up until it's time to brush my teeth. I can't sleep on an empty stomach.3
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Dinner ends between 7:30 and 8PM, some times earlier; desert is 1/2 hour later, at the most but if I am not hungry I will skip it. We don't do late night snacks, and we don't go to bed until 11:30PM, sometimes later for me.
There is between 12 and 14 hrs fast between the previous dinner and breakfast.1 -
Meal timing doesn't help or hurt weight loss. It's about overall calories. Space your eating out in whatever way works for you.
If you like to eat a late snack, save some calories for that.8 -
So maybe I'm making a bigger deal about this than I should... lol. I've always thought that what you eat before bed kind of "sticks to you..." Not true?0
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I eat dinner around 5:30/6 and if I have a snack it's at 9. I go to bed at 9:30 and fall asleep around 11. I like to have a peanut butter sandwich before bed.2
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I have dinner at 7 ish and go to sleep at midnight-ish. My dietician says it's totes fine (and even encouraged) to have a little bedtime snack (i.e. a piece of fruit with ~10 nuts) so I don't wake up a ravenous, carb-binging monster.1
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So maybe I'm making a bigger deal about this than I should... lol. I've always thought that what you eat before bed kind of "sticks to you..." Not true?
No, not true.
The whole time I was losing weight (and now) I ate between 9 and 10 most nights. I go to bed around 11-11:30 usually.0 -
We usually finish dinner by 7pm and that's the last I try to eat (I'm usually out of calories about then anyway). Sometimes I have calories left and I'll eat a piece of fruit before bed. Doesn't seem to affect my sleep (I go to bed at 9:30 pm because I need my 7-8 hours).1
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robingoblin wrote: »I have dinner at 7 ish and go to sleep at midnight-ish. My dietician says it's totes fine (and even encouraged) to have a little bedtime snack (i.e. a piece of fruit with ~10 nuts) so I don't wake up a ravenous, carb-binging monster.
It's weird for me, because if I have something to eat before bed, I'm STARVING when I wake up. But if I don't eat for a couple hours before bed, I'm not that hungry in the morning! lol2 -
So maybe I'm making a bigger deal about this than I should... lol. I've always thought that what you eat before bed kind of "sticks to you..." Not true?
Not true...your metabolism is working 24/7.
Much of this kind of "mythology" simply stems from inventive ways to control calories...not eating after a certain time or not eating grains/starches at night, etc is simply a way of controlling calories and might be beneficial to someone who's not actively keeping a diary or counting calories...but yeah...your metabolism is going to town 24/7.2 -
Eat supper at 8-9pm. Go night-night at 1am.
Used to feel way better eating at 5-6 and going to bed before 10 though. Oh well.
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Stop eating around 9-9:30...bed depends on when I have to be at work. Sometimes 10, sometimes midnight or later.2
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This was an interesting discussion, great answers to a great question. It helps to hear the myth busted by more than one individual.1
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Dinner is anywhere between 530 and 7, snack around 9, bed by 10 to be up at 5:30a1
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For me, the last meal is around 9-10pm. Hit the sack around 1am. Wake up around 8am but don't get up til around 9am and 1st meal is around 10-11am. "Lunch" usually isn't til around 4-5 pm. So, the meals are still evenly spread out during the day; I just get started later than others.1
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Dinner is usually between 5-6pm, dessert straight after. I go to bed around 7 and watch tv in there instead of the living room. I get up between 5-6am.1
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i usually have something sweet about 20-ish minutes before bed.
However, in the mornings, i'm not hungry for a couple hours.1
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