I heard eating food at night IS NOT FATTENING??

Question

Is this person right, or just high?? lol

Answer 1

He is probably high.
I tried that before. I went to sleep after I ate a cup noodle and the next day. my face looks wider and I look fatter.
I watched TV once and I remember a model said it's not good to eat the 3 hours before you sleep. Of course, she is not any scientist or anything. However, I still believe her that eating before you sleep will definitely make you fatter.

Answer 2

Eating at night is not more fattening than any other time. Calories are calories. If you expend more calories during the time you are awake than what you eat, then you will lose weight. If you consume more calories than you burn during the day (and at night because it takes some calories just to sleep), then you will gain weight. When you eat doesn't matter. What matters is the number of calories you consume.

Heck if all you ate was fat and you burned more calories during the whole day (24 hour period) than you ate. Then, you would lose weight.

Answer 3

I don't notice any difference unless I sleep within the first few hours after eating.

Don't eat too close to bed time. That's how i gained a lot of weight years ago. When I started waiting a few hours (even to take naps during the day: you'd be surprised how well naps actually helped, though), I lost a lot of weight.

Pay attention to your body's patterns, though. It might actually vary.

I've always leaned toward odd sleep schedules. Time of day alone never determined my weight gain or loss. Excercise, food choices/portions and sleep habits have. Lack of sleep equals vulnerability to weight gain. I have seen this even on my more strict diets.

Joker1's comment is similar to me. It's usually a bowl of raisin bran at night (after a bowl during the day and a resonable size dinner). Sleep about four hours later.

Answer 4

Eating food at night and eating food in the morning has the same effect. So if the food is fattening, eating it at night is fattening.

Answer 5

Personally I can't figure it out. A calorie is a calorie, whether you eat it at 2 pm or 2 am.

Also a calorie burned at 2 pm or burned at 2 am is the same also, so I don't know how much I believe it's such a big deal to eat in the evenings as long as your TOTAL calories for 24 hours is curbed.

Answer 6

no more fattening than eating at any other time.

its just your daily calorie intake or fat intake or whatever that counts.

when you eat doesnt matter, really.

as long as you burn it off at some point.

i know people always claim it is more fattening, but ive eaten a ton at night on diets and still lost weight.

like,
if you eat 2,000 calories a day and burn 2,000 calories, then you wont gain weight.
doesnt matter when you had those calories.

you may not be burning them off RIGHT AWAY, but as long as you burn them off eventually, it doesn't matter.

trust me.
its fine.
people dont know what theyre talking about.

Answer 7

It depends on who you talk to on what answer you will get. I believe that if you eat fruits and light low fat foods at night, that they aren't fattening, but if you are eating a tub of buttered popcorn before bed, that could certainly lead to weight gain in some people.
The best thing to do is eat a healthy balanced diet, and not worry about the myths and such. Talk to your Doctor about what is the best eating plan for you.

Answer 8

I had this very conversation, with my doctor a couple weeks ago.

He said, " While it's prefered, that you don't eat at bedtime, its the total number of calories, you consume in a day that really matter".

He also added, "Most people who eat late at night, have already eaten their three meals for the day and their consuming excess calories. Now if you eat little during the day, like a bowl of cereal and just a sandwich later on, you can eat late at night. "

Then he said "You won't get fat if you eat your third "reasonable" meal late at night. Again as long as your consuming, a reasonable amount of calories"

Answer 9

I would say high! It's what you eat that is fattening! Although I've been told and try to make it a regular practice, that eating after 6 pm is not good. Most people have down time after 6pm and are less likely to burn off what they eat after that time.

Answer 10

Actually, I think it's more fattening to eat at night. If you eat right before going to bed, your body has less time to break the food down, so it just sits there all night. It's best to stop eating at 8 pm, I believe. =)