Does it matter what time you eat?

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  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    Sounds like you found your solution! For what it's worth, I found that I got ravenous between meals for the first few weeks of weight loss, because my body had become accustomed to a slight calorie surplus, and a 600-calorie deficit felt like starving. After about three weeks, I adapted and that nuclear pit of hunger became ordinary between-meal hunger; I was much happier.
  • HGarcia1527
    HGarcia1527 Posts: 69 Member
    Nope. This is one of the biggest myths. But I wouldn't suggest eating right before bed because if can cause you to feel sluggish the following day.
  • Alidecker
    Alidecker Posts: 1,262 Member
    laceyslabaugh wrote: »
    I drink an 8oz glass of water at 6am as I'm getting ready for work. I pack breakfast (usually a piece of bread, hard boiled egg and piece of turkey bacon) - heat it up around 8:45ish at work and eat it slowly drinking my coffee and water in-between bites. I try and make my breakfast last 30 min. to eat (working while eating too). I eat a snack around 11 (grapes or carrots) and my lunch around 12:30 and another snack around 3:00 ... dinner is around 5:30-6. I brush my teeth at 8 with my daughter so I don't feel the need to snack when my husband does!

    I just moved my schedule to one similar to this. I get up at 6, breakfast at 8:30, snack at 11, lunch 1:30, snack at 4:30, Dinner at 7-7:30. I am rarely hungry with this plan, which seems like a first for me :)
  • jenbeck18
    jenbeck18 Posts: 32 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Hm. Have you tried prelogging your entire day?

    This really helps me!
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    HGarcia1527 wrote: »
    Nope. This is one of the biggest myths. But I wouldn't suggest eating right before bed because if can cause you to feel sluggish the following day.

    Why would it do that?

    I can eat right up until bedtime with no issues. The only people who should refrain is those who are out of calories for the day and those for whom eating before bed gives them digestive issues such as heartburn.

    For everyone else, timing of the food is irrelevant and should be based solely on personal preference. :)
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