STOP Eating at a certin time...@ night...does it work?

ChubbyMamma
ChubbyMamma Posts: 13
edited November 11 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi All!

So I have heard that you should stop stop eating at a certine time before bed,
it help you shed some pounds.

Well i think thats kinds crazy.
Really if it was that easy, would i need to lose wieght?
well i guess maybe i am a late night muncher.

Well has anyone done this and know if it works.

i as just wondering

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  • hottottie11
    hottottie11 Posts: 907 Member
    Only if it prevents you from overeating.

    You can eat up to bed if you like. As long as there is caloric deficit at the end of the day, you'll lose weight.
  • craziedazie
    craziedazie Posts: 185 Member
    No. =) Eat when you want.
  • jjoseph329
    jjoseph329 Posts: 39 Member
    I heard your last meal should be 3 hours before bedtime . However I am always munching on something before bed o_O but I am still losing weight.
  • marynmarty
    marynmarty Posts: 89 Member
    I am a horrible night eater....since I started this diet, I have stopped eating at 8 every night....I feel a lot better when I go to bed and so far have lost almost 42 pounds. I think it does help and you overall feel better when you go to sleep!
  • ChubbyMamma
    ChubbyMamma Posts: 13
    Thanks for the insight, something to keep in mind.


    =D
  • bms34b
    bms34b Posts: 401 Member
    It doesn't matter at all when you eat your calories.

    It matters if you have already eaten your calories and you just keep on eating as a part of a habit of relaxing. This was how I put on my last bit of weight before I decided I needed to change...It wasn't that I'd eat unhealthily during the day, it was just that after I should be slowing down my calorie intake I would continue to eat ramen or easy mac or cookies or ice cream. College, right?
  • cgilchrist3
    cgilchrist3 Posts: 25 Member
    I usually don't eat right before bedtime. Not as a rule, but that's just the way it has been. Whatever works for you. If it is not working, do something about it.
  • suziecue66
    suziecue66 Posts: 1,312 Member
    Its all about total calories for the day. If, like a lot have mentioned you tend to binge at night and go over your calories then it would good to stop eating at a certain time at night.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    A lot of people are in the habit of snacking from dinner until bedtime. So a rule like "no eating after 7pm" can really be beneficial. But, that's just because it makes them eat fewer calories overall. As long as you're keeping to your calorie goal, you can eat as late as you want.
  • HMonsterX
    HMonsterX Posts: 3,000 Member
    I eat around 80% of my calories after 11pm, and always have a 300 cal snack right before bed. These are all planned and logged, to make sure i keep my calorie deficit.
  • harriet_tubman
    harriet_tubman Posts: 52
    I really think this is more of a mental thing that varies from person to person. I could NEVER give myself a cut off time for eating, I think it's like self torture.

    There are a few nights every week where I don't get home until after 9pm, and by the time I'm done preparing dinner, it's more like 10pm.

    I also spent this entire past summer experimenting with all of these food and cutoff time myths, especially the whole DON'T EAT CARBS AFTER 6PM bullsh*t, and I found that... if you're consistently working out hard and burning more calories than you're taking in, you will still lose weight/maintain your weight.

    for a few months (sept-december) i was actually eating ALL of my carbs at night right before i went to bed. it makes no difference as long as the macro-nutrients are balanced in a way that works for YOUR body. *edit: by "carbs" i mean GOOD carbs high in fiber (usually it was oatmeal, cream of wheat, vitatop muffins (omg, i'd eat two boxes of those a day but that go expensive), etc. just nothing that wasn't whole grain/whole wheat/high sugar)

    I know you were talking about just a cut off time for eating in general, but I think this sort of applies. Sorry if it's off-topic!
  • nanodot
    nanodot Posts: 154 Member
    I'm a night owl, so I eat at midnight pretty often. I don't think it matters for me. But, I'm Paleo, so I don't eat many carbs.

    I can see some logic in the idea that if you go to bed with a bunch of sugar in your blood, your body will have nothing to do with it but store it as fat. BUT, if you are running a calorie deficit, you will just use it up the next day. So still, probably no big deal.
  • vabrewer33
    vabrewer33 Posts: 185
    It has not been scientifically proven (as someone bluntly pointed out to me the other day) but from personal experience, yes. I cannot eat after 8 or I do not sleep well AND I do not lose weight. I think it is one of those things that varies from person to person and there is not a specific rule for guidance.
  • harriet_tubman
    harriet_tubman Posts: 52
    It has not been scientifically proven (as someone bluntly pointed out to me the other day) but from personal experience, yes. I cannot eat after 8 or I do not sleep well AND I do not lose weight. I think it is one of those things that varies from person to person and there is not a specific rule for guidance.

    I agree.
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