late eating

It's not good, but if you keep those meals light then won't be too bad. I am on the Zrii diet and if I get home too late, I just have the meal replacement shake instead.

It doesn't matter what time you eat unless it makes it difficult for you to sleep.

Its not the best, but, try eating lean protiens w vegetables.. Not alot of carbs. Are you eating anything before you go work out? My trainer said its best to work out at night cuz we can burn off all that we ate through out the day, but we gotta work out when we can right so...Welcome to the journey...

I eat late night, every night ( Low fat popcorn and a piece of fruit before bed, usually after 10:00). I just make sure I leave calories for it. I had no trouble losing weight. :drinker:

Eat whenever you want, meal timing is a myth. It has no effect on weight loss.

This.

I can't get a clear answer on the subject myself, and I am quite curious if my current habits are unhealthy.
I keep reading mixed answers to this one.

I work out 7 days a week, but on Mon, Tues and Friday - I don not get out of the gym until10 PM, sometimes later.

From what I understand, it is in fact better to eat SOMETHING than nothing at all. Just watch what you eat. After just cardio, I would stay away from carbs at least an hour after you work out, but if there are weightlifting involved - you want both carbs and protein.

Nothing wrong with eating late at night! I prefer it, try to keep myself busy 'til about 1900 then I cook so I eat between 1930 and 2000 myself. Means I finish around 2030, wash up and tidy up until about 2100 and so I haven't snacked! By 2200 I've done a few odds and sods, and I have a high carb but small snack for bed. By the time the sugars have normalised, melatonin has been released, I feel sleepy and go to bed nice and sound on a higher blood glucose level which helps aid sleep and feed your brain as opposed to your muscles energy! It won't make you store fat eating late or any of that BS you may have heard. Basically, a study was done where people ate late at night gained weight...turned out the results were skewed...those people ate dinner, and were snacking or eating ANOTHER meal late so their overall daily calories were too high for what they required so they gained weight...because they ate all the time!

Keep eating late at night if you need to, just make sure you don't go over your calories required! A calorie in is a calorie in and it doesn't matter what time you put it in at!

Hope that helps!

It is a habit I am trying to break. When my new week starts (on Sunday) I am going to work on shifting one of my evening snacks to earlier in the day. Hopefully this will make me less hungry when I get home.

exactly! rad my 2 posts on this thread! Hope it helps.... a calorie in is a calorie in and it doesn't matter what time it goes in at. It will still be digested and metabolised. What type of food you eat may affect stuff though. Carbs before bed aid sleep!

Victoria,
The most important thing about eating that I have learned is to do a lot of it is smaller amounts. I eat early, late, and every hour or two in-between. Keep snack bags of veggies or other health snacks. the more you munch through the day and night the more you will burn fat. It jacks your metabolism up every time you eat something. Make it something healthy and you win. Also, make sure to get some good natural protein within 30 minutes or so of your workout. It will help your body in many ways. So work out and then eat health afterward, then eat some more You will never feel truly hungry and you will lose lots of unwanted fat.

Eat whenever you want, meal timing is a myth. It has no effect on weight loss.

So you're telling me that even if I eat at 11 o'clock at night, because that is when I am home from the gym - that is not bad?

I didn't think so either, but the internet refuses to give me a clear answer on this. I've been googling the subject for weeks, trying to figure this out. Drives me nuts lol.

It does not matter how many meals you eat, or what time you eat them. Your body will digest them all the same. People try to say that eating at night causes your body to store the food as fat instead of immediately burning it for energy. The part they conveniently leave out is your body does that anyway, whenever you eat. Fat storage is not some terrible, horrible unhealthy process that the fitness and diet industry try and make it seem like. It's a normal physiological process that happens every minute of every day. Your body is constantly storing excess energy as fat, and releasing stored fat for energy. That's how it works. There is no strange, mysterious storage area that the body stores food in to use for energy besides the fat cells.

It really just depends on when you go to bed. You shouldnt eat 2 hours before bedtime...

Why? I see no difference in how my body processes food, whether it's 5 hours or 5 minutes before bedtime.

You're body doesn't shut down and restart at midnight your time, my time or gmt time. It doesn't know the difference. It is a continous process.

Sometimes I eat in bed, the only problem that causes is it annoys the bf when it is crunchy food and he wants to sleep.

calories are calories people. think about it logicaly...as long as you stay at/under you goal, your exercising, and burning. so it doesnt matter when you eat them.

example: say my goal is 1200...which it is...lol


ok goal 1200.....burn 200...new goal 1400
breakfast 10am 300......left over 1100
lunch 1pm 400....left over 700

dinner 2 am...cuz you went out and forgot to eat.............

ok stop here...technicly yes its the next day...but you still had 700 cals left to eat from the "previous" day! you need those calories so yes eat them! then go on with your next day as normal...if you dont do this then you run the risk of starvation mode....it does not matter when you eat as long as you are going about it the way we have all be taught on her....i eat the bulk of my cals every night at dinner about 7..then i have a snack EVERY night about 9 or 10pm...and i have been losing 1-4 lbs per week....(monthly girl things keep it lower some weeks) i have lost 40 lbs in 3 months so no it does not matter when you eat..as long as you are moving and meeting and not going over your goal!