What time do you stop eating each night and go to sleep every night?

I hit the sack at 1 AM and eat at about 12-12:45 AM.

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.

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.

crissy976 wrote: »

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.

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.

This was an interesting discussion, great answers to a great question. It helps to hear the myth busted by more than one individual.

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.

i usually have something sweet about 20-ish minutes before bed.

However, in the mornings, i'm not hungry for a couple hours.

We eat dinner around 6:30, have a snack/wine at 7:30. I eat the bulk of my calories in the evening. In bed between 8:30-9, up at 5a to workout

cwolfman13 wrote: »

As a side note, I've always personally wondered how people manage to eat dinner at 5 or 6 or whatever and be done eating for the day...hell, there are a lot of days I don't even leave the office until 6 and then I have an hour commute home...

Right? I'm lucky to be home by 5:30 or so, and then I still need to work out.

Dinner for me is usually 8-9, bed somewhere between 9:30 and 11:30 depending on how I feel. Up at 5:30, bah. There is almost always dessert immediately before bed.

And others have already covered this well, but yeah, meal timing is entirely based on preference and what helps you adhere to a deficit.

crissy976 wrote: »

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 at all. Eat when you need to eat to keep yourself satisfied. You could sit down to your dinner in bed, eat, put the plate on the night stand, and then fall asleep and lose the exact same amount of weight as if you had had the exact same food three hours earlier. Good ole fashion wives' tales.

If I go to bed about 1 am, I stop eating about midnight.

If I go to bed about 2 am, I might still be eating at 1 am.

We eat dinner unusually late because of hubby's work schedule - 11:30 PM. That means I don't have to worry about being hungry between dinner and bed, but it presents me with extra challenges. If I am up at 7 AM, that's a 16 hour window to stretch out my calories. I typically don't have my first meal until the early afternoon, and I am pretty ravenous by then. By 5/6, I am hungry again, and I still have 5+ hours until dinner after that. It can be hard.

I'm not willing to give up the late dinners, though. It's sometimes the only time we get together, and I don't want to stare at him while he eats leftovers.