How many hours before bed should I stop eating? I hear eating before bed is bad...?

Answer 1

Some believe eating before bed is bad for weight loss. It actually doesnt matter when you eat as long as you do not eat too much. If you havent had over your calorie allowence for the day you can eat a snack before bed if you would like.

Answer 2

If you are trying to lose weight, it doesn't matter when you eat as much as how much you are eating.
If you haven't eaten enough all day, and are still hungry, it is OK to have a light snack before bed.
Eating a meal or bigger right before bed is bad because you could get heartburn or indigestion. You should always be "upright" (standing or sitting) for at least 1/2 hour after a meal.

But like I said with the weight thing, the total intake of the day is what matters the most.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

The eating before bed thing is a complete myth. I ALWAYS eat a snack right before bed, and I have yet to gain weight from it. I think a lot of people recommend not eating after 7pm or whatever because a lot of people tend to eat late at night out of boredom or when they're watching tv, etc. If you eat your dinner at 7pm, I would have a small snack before bed (if you are hungry). It won't harm you. Actually, going to bed hungry could prevent you from getting a good night's sleep...I know I never sleep well if I go to bed hungry!

Answer 4

It doesn't matter if you eat right before bed or a few hours before. A lot of people think eating before bed is bad because it will make you gain wait (mostly because people eat a lot of junk food late at night). It doesn't matter though. Just eat something healthy that you would want to eat any other time and you're ok!

Answer 5

Well, it is not as bad as some people make it. When we go to sleep our metablism slows down, hence making it more difficult to assimilate the food. In other words makes your stomach work harder and longer.

Another fact that needs to be taken into consideration, is that while alseep, very little effort is being made. This means that we burn fewer calories. This is why weight concious people are advised to not eat before going to bed.

3-4 hours is a sufficient time for digesting a meal before going to bed.

Answer 6

What and when you eat at the end of the day can have a large impact on your weight. If you eat the right thing at the right time you can actually lose weight while you sleep. Eat the wrong thing at the wrong time and you can plan on waking up with a little more body fat in the morning.

To succsufully loss weight, you'll need to stop eating two - three hours before going to bed. YOu shold not feel starving before bed but you should feel slightly hungry. When you're trying to lose weight, slipping into bed at night feeling slightly hungry is actually a good thing. It's your body telling you that what you did that day is working -- you're losing body fat. If you don't feel this way, you're probably not losing fat.

Things to Remember:

• Eating too much food, especially carbohydrates, late at night increases your body fat stores
• Eating high-glycemic carbs (pasta, potatoes, white rice, sugar, etc.) right before bed will spike your insulin levels and blunt nighttime Human Growth Hormone (HGH) production.
• That's very bad because about 80% of this fat-burning, muscle-building "super hormone" is released during sleep.
• If you fast for 11 hours (8 PM to 7 am for instance) your body will begin burning significant amounts of fat around the 5th hour (1 am) and continue to do so until you wake up.

Here are a few simple tips to make sure you get the most from your last meal of the day:

• Eat about 3 hours before going to bed - you'll have some time to burn off calories but you probably won't get too hungry before going to sleep
• Eat frequently throughout the day - small, healthy meals and snacks spaced about 3 hours apart - to minimize hunger cravings at night
• Your last meal should consist mainly of a lean protein (like baked chicken breast) and low-calorie, fibrous carbohydrates (veggies and fruits) - avoid all starchy carbs close to bedtime (breads, pastas, rice, potatoes, etc.)
• If, like many of us, you get big-time carb cravings right before bed.....eat some carbs! Just make sure they're the high-fiber, low-glycemic kind: apples, berries, peaches, plums, bran cereal, fresh vegetables, vegetable juice, etc.
• If you're currently strength training to build muscle, a great end-of-the-day meal option is low-fat cottage cheese (full of slowly-digested casein protein) with no-sugar-added fresh or canned fruit.

Answer 7

About 2 to 21/2 hours before retiring to bed. Actually when you go to bed the stomach should be empty.

Answer 8

Being healthy means eating breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Queen and eat dinner like a pauper. This means the dinner meal should be the least in terms of quantity of food. Your dinner should be at least one hour before you go to bed. This is to promote better metabolism of the food ingested. Proper digestion and metabolism will prevent SUDS or the occurrence of the Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome to susceptible people...or dying in your sleep. It does not mean that evcerybody who go to bed full, would die, it simply means some persons are SUDS positive and this condition would be exacerbated if they gp to bed full, because this will trigger the release of some fluids that may cause death.

Answer 9

the only time you shouldn't eat before bed is if you have already eaten the amount of calories that you are supposed to eat for the day. it doesnt matter when you eat your calories. if you eat 3000 calories in the morning and nothing else for the rest of the day you will get fat. if you dont eat anything and eat 2000 calories right before bed you wont.

Answer 10

Never eat crackers in bed! That is a big no no.