Does eating late at night encourage weight gain?

[iamme]

Is there truth to this? Should you not eat late a night, before you sleep, regardless of what the food is?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Yes, your body needs time to digest before you hit the sack.

 

[radioactiveballpoint]

Yeah, if you eat within an hour or so of going to bed you won't burn off those calories.

 

[Radiohead]

An empty stomach before bed is a flat stomach in the morning.

 

[mithrandir2001]

I swelled to 205 pounds in college because I succumbed to the beer munchies and ate late-night fast food. Now that I'm in the real world and don't eat before sleeping, I'm back down around 170.

 

[iamme]

How long should you wait before going to sleep?

 

[boyRacer]

Funny enough... those diet pills or whatever they are tell you not to eat 4 hours before bed time... so now they have people doing just that and swear the diet pills work...

 

[SoylentGreen]

You eat 2000 calories a day.

You eat 500 in the morning, 500 in the afternoon 1000 at night.

You eat 1000 in the morning, 700 in the afternoon 300 at night.

What's the difference?

 

[radioactiveballpoint]

The difference is that if you eat it right before bed, you won't have time to burn it off. Your body burns very little at night, so when you digest it most of it will just become fat.

 

[iamme]

ah forget it....i'm too darn hungry....

 

[DanTMWTMP]

crap.....my fridge shouldn't be my late night mecca anymore....

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
You eat 2000 calories a day.

You eat 500 in the morning, 500 in the afternoon 1000 at night.

You eat 1000 in the morning, 700 in the afternoon 300 at night.

What's the difference?

I think the calories you just took gets stored as fat because you're body went ZZzZZzzz....

 

[Evadman]

I have late night snacks in bed while I read before I go sleepy bye. Not the best, but it is a habbit I have had for a good 12 years. I tried to break it a few years ago, but no go. That is probably where my stomach came from

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
crap.....my fridge shouldn't be my late night mecca anymore....

Wurd. You don't even want to know what I've eaten in the past three hours.

Glad you asked. Three (3) Van DeKamps frozen fish fillets (cooked in the oven, of course) and Two (2) Ham, Cheese and Mayo sandwiches on white toast. The toast is da'bomb. I am about to brush my teeth and go to bed. I cannot sleep on an empty stomach.

Idon't eat breakfast. I eat a big lunch and typically a midsize late night snack. Tonight, I had a Godzilla size snack. *yawn* Good night.

 

[optimistic]

Originally posted by: iamme
How long should you wait before going to sleep?

After eating? 2 hours.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Let's say, every day you consume 2000 calories.

Let's say every day, between your metabolism and physical activity you burn 2000 calories.

No matter when you consumed the calories, you shoud stay the same weight.

Besides, you body takes several hours before it starts absorbing your food.

I have always heard this tale and think it's a bunch of bunk.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: optimistic

Originally posted by: iamme
How long should you wait before going to sleep?

After eating? 2 hours.

Yeah, right. I am on my way to the Land of Eternal Sleep...oh Morpheus, TAKE ME away....

 

[neomits]

drink a full glass of water and that usually gets rid of most midnight munchies for me

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
You eat 2000 calories a day.

You eat 500 in the morning, 500 in the afternoon 1000 at night.

You eat 1000 in the morning, 700 in the afternoon 300 at night.

What's the difference?

The difference is your ass ain't parked in bed when you eat in the morning.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Originally posted by: neomits
drink a full glass of water and that usually gets rid of most midnight munchies for me

Well, if you're happy with your bed wetting problem who are we to say different?

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
Funny enough... those diet pills or whatever they are tell you not to eat 4 hours before bed time... so now they have people doing just that and swear the diet pills work...

Yep, I wonder how many people paying $50 a month for that stuff has thought of that...

Just don't eat a few hours before going to bed, works like a charm!

Grasshopper

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Let's say, every day you consume 2000 calories.

Let's say every day, between your metabolism and physical activity you burn 2000 calories.

No matter when you consumed the calories, you shoud stay the same weight.

Besides, you body takes several hours before it starts absorbing your food.

I have always heard this tale and think it's a bunch of bunk.

why is this so hard to believe? you don't burn calories at the same rate when you sleep, so the calories you consume turn into fat because they're not used. what don't you understand?

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Let's say, every day you consume 2000 calories.

Let's say every day, between your metabolism and physical activity you burn 2000 calories.

No matter when you consumed the calories, you shoud stay the same weight.

Besides, you body takes several hours before it starts absorbing your food.

I have always heard this tale and think it's a bunch of bunk.

WTH are you talking about? You're the most active when you're awake not while you're asleep.

 

[TrueBlueLS]

Originally posted by: iamme
Is there truth to this? Should you not eat late a night, before you sleep, regardless of what the food is?

Hasn't worked for me, I've tried it.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Originally posted by: dolph

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Let's say, every day you consume 2000 calories.

Let's say every day, between your metabolism and physical activity you burn 2000 calories.

No matter when you consumed the calories, you shoud stay the same weight.

Besides, you body takes several hours before it starts absorbing your food.

I have always heard this tale and think it's a bunch of bunk.

why is this so hard to believe? you don't burn calories at the same rate when you sleep, so the calories you consume turn into fat because they're not used. what don't you understand?

What don't I understand? What don't you understand.

If my average daily caloric intake averaged over a year is 3000 calories a day and my average burning of caloris is 2500 I have a surplus of 500 calories a day.

500 X 365 = 182,500 more calories consumed that year than expended.

Each 3500 calories consumed roughly equals 1 lb of weight on a person. So over that year I'd gain approximately 52 pounds.

You can do the averages of minus as well, so I'd lose 52 lbs if my average caloric intake is 500 calories less than I expend.

So what is the difference whether I consume the calories at whatever time of day? If I consume them anytime those days why would it make a difference if it leaned towards the night? Now that doesn't make sense.