Don’t Eat After 7 PM – Is Eating Late At Night Bad For Weight Loss? Have you ever heard that you shouldn’t eat after 7 PM? Or maybe 8 PM? Or how about 6 PM? Although there are many sound reasons not to eat after 7:00 p.m., weight loss is not one of them. According to the Weight Control Information Network, when you eat doesn’t matter, and snacking in the evening hours does not “cause” weight gain. Jan 17, 2018 - Time-restricted eating can help with weight loss, researchers say. 'After I had gotten 40 pounds off, the next ten pounds seemed to take. Here’s an interesting little tidbit I picked up from a article about misconceptions that we have about our bodies and doing right by them: So what makes 7 (or 8 or 9) p.m. A magical cutoff time anyway? The original idea was that people should stop eating about 3 hours before bed, using 10 p.m. As an average bedtime. Although it is a good idea to stop eating a few hours before bed, the reasoning has nothing to do with weight gain; it’s basically an issue of digestion and personal comfort. Going to sleep on a full stomach may make sleeping uncomfortable, as the body is simultaneously shutting down to rest while still exerting energy to digest the food. This may lead to fitful sleep as well as gas and indigestion—but not weight gain. Your body is smart, but it doesn’t know what time it is when you eat. It will metabolize calories eaten after 7 p.m. The same way as it does the calories you eat earlier in the day. They will NOT automatically be stored as fat. So what’s the takeaway? The original thought was that eating so close to bedtime would mean that food wouldn’t be broken down properly – which is true, if you’re talking about digestion – and would be stored as fat. ![]() That’s not true! If you want to sleep a little better, there should be a relatively wide window between your last meal and your bedtime. Other than that? Sounds like a green light. But no overeating! Lose Weight Don't EatFat burning shirts. The proud leader of the #bgg2wlarmy, Erika Nicole Kendall writes food and fitness, body image and beauty, and more here at #bgg2wl. After losing over 150lbs, Kendall became a personal trainer certified in fitness nutrition, women's fitness, and weight loss by the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She is also certified in sports nutrition by Precision Nutrition. She now lives in New York with her husband and children, and is working on her 6th and 7th certifications because she likes having alphabet soup at the end of her name.
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