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is eating right before bedtime really bad for you?

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that seems to be the conventional wisdom, but a calorie is a calorie is a calorie no matter what time of the day it's consumed at, no?
 
There's some stuff I've heard that says your digestion kinda slows down when you sleep or something.

I really don't know though.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
There's some stuff I've heard that says your digestion kinda slows down when you sleep or something.

I really don't know though.
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guess that'd make sense.

I don't really do it myself, generally (I eat 3 meals/day and only snack between meals very very rarely), I just never knew the reasoning behind not eating at night.
 
I don't understand it..after breakfast/lunch one usually just sits down at a desk for 4-5 hours anyway. Or even after dinner many people will just plant themselves on the couch for a few hours as well.

If anything, it's a fact that increasing the amount of meals you have during the day can increase your metabolism, so having a small extra midnight snack or whatever could help.
 
My understanding is that metabolism is a function of food consumption and activity. If metabolism decreases while people sleep it's because they're not doing shit and they probably haven't eaten for several hours (see: correlation vs. causation). My understand is that one should eat before bed, to keep one's metabolism elevated for as long as possible.
 
Your metabolism slows down when you sleep. That's why it's important to eat breakfast every morning, because it kickstarts your metabolism back into normal mode for the day.

Eating before bed can also make you restless, as your body doesn't usually like trying to make you fall asleep and digest food all at the same time.
 
When my wife used to work late, we ate shortly before going to bed. I always seemed to end up with heartburn that would wake me up.
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
When my wife used to work late, we ate shortly before going to bed. I always seemed to end up with heartburn that would wake me up.
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I definitely get acid reflux much worse if I eat a lot before bed.
 
no its not bad for you, if you workout a lot its recommended to wake up in the middle of the night and have some egg whites or something.

Webmd "Your best bet for keeping metabolism revved: Build muscles, snack on low-calorie, high-protein foods, and keep moving!"

though it is bad for some people...
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
that seems to be the conventional wisdom, but a calorie is a calorie is a calorie no matter what time of the day it's consumed at, no?
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No.

If you seriously believe this, you lack a basic understanding of how your body works.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
Originally posted by: silverpig
There's some stuff I've heard that says your digestion kinda slows down when you sleep or something.

I really don't know though.
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guess that'd make sense.

I don't really do it myself, generally (I eat 3 meals/day and only snack between meals very very rarely), I just never knew the reasoning behind not eating at night.
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Well if you're really worried, you should be eating 5-6 evenly sized meals each day.
 
Late Night Eating Linked to Weight Gain



A new study in mice suggests that it?s not just how much you eat, but when you eat it, that influences weight gain.

Researchers at Northwestern University wanted to test whether the timing of meals could influence body weight. Many diet books advise would-be weight losers to stop eating after 6 or 7 p.m. However, it?s never been clear if the strategy works as a behavioral change ? we tend to overeat in the evenings in front of the television and the computer. Or is there some physiological reason late-night eating adds extra pounds?

To test whether time of feeding alone can affect body weight, the researchers studied two groups of mice who were fed identical diets of food that contained 60 percent fat. Mice are nocturnal, and they typically consume the vast majority of their calories at night and sleep during the day. For the study, half the mice were fed the diet during the daylight hours when they would normally be sleeping. The other half were given the same food on their regular eating schedule.

At the end of the six week study period, mice in both groups had consumed about the same amount of calories and performed the same amount of exercise. However, the mice who ate during normal sleeping hours posted an average 48 percent increase in body weight. The mice who ate on a regular schedule had an average increase of 20 percent of body weight. The findings will be published in the October issue of the journal Obesity.

Fred Turek, director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology at Northwestern and the study?s senior author, said human studies are needed to determine if timing of food intake influences body weight. The findings would be particularly important for shift workers, who are known to be at higher risk for obesity, diabetes and other health problems. But he notes that it?s not just shift workers who are eating late. Most people eat a large percentage of their calories in the evening and continue eating late into the night.

Dr. Turek notes that humans evolved from a situation where they ate and foraged between sunrise and sunset. ?After sunset, there were no refrigerators, no food just hanging around,? he said. ?You didn?t eat. But today, people eat most of their calories after sunset.?
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...linked-to-weight-gain/
 
I drink a protein shake every night before bed.

1 scoop Casein protein
1 TBsp Natural Peanut butter
12oz fat free milk.

Everyday...


(then again, I'm a gym rat who eats 7 times a day so I'm not part of the norm)
 
i eat all the time before bed, its never affected me negatively

and i am hungry for breakfast in the morning too so it makes no difference

edit: that research study is odd, they feed them when they SHOULD be sleeping, not right before then?

obviously only fatties wake up at night and eat a meal in the middle of the night

why didn't the study do it before the mice go to sleep?
 
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