Why shouldnt you eat before bed?

Answer 1

The idea that food before bed makes you fat because you don't burn as many calories while you sleep doesn't make sense. You will burn the calories later.

An analogy -- Let's say I get paid at work. If I deposit my check right before bed, will I get rich because I don't spend money while I sleep? No, I will spend it the next day. It just spent a few more hours in the bank.

Let's say it's true that you store calories as fat while you sleep. Well if your body is looking for calories, then it'll use the fat calories, which are worth just as much energy as carbohydrate calories. So you store fat while you sleep, and use fat when you wake. If you eat just one 2000 calorie meal before bed, every day, and you burn 2000 calories every day, you still come out even.

I don't claim that eating before bed is healthy, but "you won't burn calories when you sleep" doesn't answer the question.

Answer 2

You shouldn't eat before bed because when your body is not active it doesn't digest food properly and then a lot of it gets stored as fat. You can eat before bed just stay away from sugars and heavy starches. They take the longest to digest and turn to fat over night.

Answer 3

You should eat a slow acting protein like milk protein. ( caseinate ) with a fiber source such as flax fiber. 99.99% of the population does not know this.

If you eat carbohydrates prior to bed you will spike your insulin and have a propensity to store the calories as body fat.

Protein and fiber slow your insulin release plus the fiber slows the protein digestion and gives you an anticatabolic effect on your muscles at night. Digestion of fiber causes your body to mobilize fatty acids.( Yes it helps you burn body fat when you sleep to a slight degree.)

Steak and grilled veggies ....yes

low fat cookies, breads, potato chips....no

Answer 4

This is a complete and total myth. There is nothing particularly bad about eating right before bedtime. The only thing you might want to think about is really spicy foods that will stay with you for a while -- they might not allow you to go to sleep right away.

Answer 5

If you eat before bed, you can not work off the energy & calories. It just lays in you stomach turning to all the things you don't want like fat.

Answer 6

The reason you shouldn't eat before bed is one because it is stimulating for your dreams and stuff like that and hard to got to sleep.

Answer 7

Because most of the time, it wakes you up, which is a bad habit to get into when you are going to bed.

Answer 8

you should not eat anything before bed, why would you want to? you surely don't need the energy, unless you are running a marathon in your dream.

Answer 9

you should eat before bed, because you'll be inactive and all the energy of the food will be stored as fat.

Answer 10

Because you proceed to lay around for 8 hours and those calories just sit.