Google “funny sleeping baby” – it will make your whole day, I promise!
People have been talking about it for decades but it officially became A Thing when Oprah declared (Dear Oprah, I miss you already!) on her show that for her Best Life Diet she was no longer eating after 8 p.m. I scoffed. “Doesn’t she know that a calorie is a calorie no matter what time of day you eat it?” It turns out that Oprah was right and I was wrong. (She was also right about white jeans making a comeback.) As I got older and little deeper into this whole weight management thing – two rounds of eating disorder therapy plus a year with Geneen Roth yammering in your head will really make you examine every facet of your eating habits – I realized that what Oprah had said holds true for me too. (Still not buying any white jeans though.)
When I eat after dinner, I tend to gain weight. When I don’t, my weight is stable. I also discovered that I sleep better on an empty stomach – a big meal right before bed makes me restless, have heartburn and really whacked out dreams. Especially if that meal involved a lot of sugar. Although, not gonna lie, the crazy dreams can sometimes be pretty awesome. (There was this one where Oprah called and offered the Gym Buddies and I our own show. Strangely the part I was most excited about was that I got purple hair extensions.)
I always thought that this was because as I got more tired, I craved sugar and simple carbs to keep me awake. Plus the more tired I am the less inhibited I am and the more likely I am to make poor food choices. Half a pan of Rice Krispie bars once disappeared between 10 and 11 p.m. My kids have an ongoing investigation into who took their lunch treats but considering I was the only other person in the house that evening… If I stand at the counter and only cut off paper-thin slices that doesn’t count as “eating”, right?
New research published in the journal Obesity backs up Oprah saying that people who eat after 8 p.m. have higher BMIs than people who don’t, even when controlling for factors like “night owls” vs. “morning larks”, gender, intake of fruits and vegetables, sleep timing and sleep duration. In their words: “These findings indicate that caloric intake after 8:00 PM may increase the risk of obesity, independent of sleep timing and duration. Future studies should investigate the biological and social mechanisms linking timing of sleep and feeding in order to develop novel time-based interventions for weight management.”
Besides feeling like a zoo animal – “biological and social mechanisms linking timing of sleep and feeding in order to develop novel time-based interventions”, how many times do I have to press the level before I get bananas instead of electric shocks mommy? – this study surprised me just for the fact that the researchers basically admit they don’t know why this happens, only that it does. Perhaps there is some metabolic mechanism that alters digestion after the sun sets? A lack of sunlight signals hunger cues? My pet theory about exhaustion bringing out my sugar beast? The study was only 52 people but it certainly jives with my experience that weight loss is way more complicated than simply calories in/calories out. There is just so much that affects both of those factors.
My ideal bedtime is 10 pm at the latest (Danger Will Robinson, the time is now 9:46 p.m.) but I’m rarely in bed by then. I’ve noticed, however, that the nights I do hit the horizontal by 10, I don’t feel hungry but if I stay up even an extra hour I’m suddenly ravenous. Of course there are multitudinous other benefits to going to bed early besides weight management but I find this one fascinating. But why does it work this way? WHY??
Bonus – shortest mini-Experiment ever: So I recently read an article about the benefits of sleeping on hard surfaces and it convinced me to try it out. I often nap on the floor (I just lay where I fall , folks) so I didn’t think it would be hard to sleep a whole night there. It was awful. I’m a side sleeper and my hips soon were in so much pain that I penitently crawled back into my big squishy modern spine-wrenching bed. It felt AWESOME. I was never meant to be a cave girl. (Although I did run my Tabata sprint on Wednesday in my socks! Didn’t want to go totally barefoot – you never know what germies are on the treadmills!)
What have you noticed about your sleep habits vs. your hunger? Do you have a theory about why, even after controlling for other factors, people that eat after 8 pm gain weight? Have you ever slept on the ground? Will you wear white jeans??
Baby cheeks are the best!!
I go to bed really late based on my work schedule AND also eat directly preceding bedtime. Two “no- no’s” according to most research.
For me personally, I believe a calorie is a calorie and whether I eat it at 5pm or 5am, and whether or not I eat immediately preceding sleep or eat-do something-then sleep, I dont think it makes much difference, for me. I may be a research/statistical anomaly. Science. Life. Who knows. 🙂
Thank you for posting this right now, at this moment when I really needed it. Just 3 days ago I re-committed myself to the no eating after 8 rule. With a schedule like mine, it can be so hard to stick to – like tonight, I taught gymnastics til 8 and got home around 9, no dinner at all (a snack of yogurt pretzels was at 4:30 pm)…right now I am starving and would usually give in to a pantry-raid carb fest, but instead I am sucking down water and telling myself breakfast isn’t too far away.I really believe there is something to the “eating after 8 can make you gain weight” diet rhyme. It doesn’t make sense, and it feels like another cruel metabolic joke (of which my body is the punchline) – but yes, compare 2 months of eating with same # of calories and same # of hours working out – the month I stayed up later and ate more during the night than during the day will be the month I will gain instead of lose. Which explains why I gained more than my Freshman 15 in college.
PS – Love those big cheeks!
The study doesn’t control for calories; if it did, it would have shouted it from the rooftops. It’s probably the same story that we’re used to hearing: folks who eat bigger in the morning and less at night eat less overall and sleep better, thus weighing less, than those who do the opposite. A calorie = still a calorie. 🙂 Anyone who thinks otherwise, from all I’ve heard, just seems not to be counting what he/she’s eating.
I get up round the same time every morning and I find that if I eat after dinner (which I usually have round 6 – 7pm) I’m just not hungry for breakfast. And if I’m not hungry for breakfast I don’t like eating breakfast. And I love breakfast.
Hence, no eating after tea for me.
Pefcert shot! Thanks for your post!
I would question whether the caloric intake over the whole day was the same for all participants. Were the calories after 8 pm in addition to a full day’s worth of meals?
If so, you’re looking at extra calories, and you may also be looking at extra intake fueled by emotional eating….emotional hunger vs. physical hunger. Sleep may or may not play a role in that…I am thinking that being tired affects our ability to cope.
I do find that I sleep better on an empty stomach, and my weight does tend to lower when I make a habit of not eating too soon before bed. But factor in that a lot of my post-dinner noshing is due to something other than hunger, and that could count for a lot.
But hey, whatever works, right? As long as we’re not harming anyone, including ourselves. (And there are always exceptions to every rule: for a few years I’ve been hearing about the “no caffeine after 4 PM” rule that is supposed to help us sleep better, but my brother used to drink 4-5 diet Cokes a day, including one right before bed, and sleep like a log. He has since given up the habit. Quit cold turkey.)
Oh, and those baby pictures…SQUEEEEE!!!!!
I will NEVER wear white jeans. I did in 7th grade and that was enough.
I sleep on the ground when I camp and my bed never feels better than the night after camping. Its like pure bliss.
As for the whole eating thing, I’m convinced that all these studies are failing to control for another factor. regardless of whether your metabolism really does slow down at night, if you eat the same amount of calories throughout the day, you will still burn the same too. It doesn’t matter if you eat right before running 8 miles or right before sleeping. Your metabolism still burns XX calories and you still ate XX calories. Right? Am I am being too much of a scientist here?
All I know is that I eat a lot in the evening and very little before lunch. I have done this for the last year and I haven’t gained an ounce. I may be an outlier though. It would not be the first time.
Hmm, I have a pair of white jean capris that are super cute and slimming (why hello cheap secret slimming panel Lee’s from Kohls, how lovely are YOU??) that I plan to wear tomorrow night! Does that make me a bad person? And I’m not even average sized, let alone super skinny! I am pretty tan and they are loose, not tight.
As for time of day eating, I think the study should account for overall calories and what KIND of calories people were eating throughout the day. Perhaps night eaters are eating bad carbs/sugar, coming down from that “high” and needed to refuel again. . . which they really don’t need but are craving. . . and then eat excess calories over what they should. Theory to look into, at least.
Ever since I was a kid (10, when I actually gave feedback that my mom listened to), I REFUSED to eat after 7pm. After that, I was too tired to eat, and I didn’t. Now I’ll break this rule, but only if I’m REALLY hungry, enough that I have hunger pains while sleeping (yea, sometimes I’ll just forget to eat, so this happens about once a month). Usually, though, if I exercise, I’ll eat, I’ll sleep. If I don’t, then I’ll forget to eat, only being reminded when I’m about to sleep (yea, exercise is good). A calorie is a calorie, but when that calorie interrupts your sleep is when it affects your weight.
I slept on the floor for an entire year (lost my bed to my grandmother when she moved in with us. There was no hurry to get me a new bed because I usually fell out of it anyway…scared my roommate because she almost stepped on my head when I fell out of my bead…she was amused, took a picture, which was my facebook pic for a few months.). Hard surface + slight cushioning = heaven. The best bed I EVER had was the cheap one my grandmother had, which are basically futons on the floor. Sometimes I’m such a Luddite =)
As a long term hard-core insomniac I notice that after about 10:30pm I’m ravenous ! If it’s one of the nights that I don’t sleep at all then I’ll eat and eat. I did try not eating after a certain time but sometimes, if I’m really lucky, if I eat carbs (baked beans/microwaved potato etc) it will help me sleep. So not eating late goes out the window regularly. I have no theories, although I do like your one about the sunlight. I think that’s a pretty good theory actually
I have a pair of white pants, not jeans though, that I bought in England last year. I love them except they seem to attract every type of dust and dirt imaginable.
I’ve slept on the ground camping. The air mattress lost it’s air part way through the night, and it was a horrible nights sleep ! It certainly wasn’t good for me, made me grumpy(er) and gave me a sore back. I won’t do that again either !
First of all, is that baby in the last picture healthy? I love me some squishy baby cheeks but those ones… Holy Cow! And white clothing of any kind is never in style for a mother of young ones. Some day I will wear that color again. Sigh.
And I don’t think 8 pm is somehow a magic number or that nighttime eating equates to weight gain. I just think most people have reached their calorie allotment by that time of day so any additional eating will surely add excess pounds. However, if you have eaten sensibly during the day, a pre-bed snack should be fine if it fits within your calorie budget. I agree with other readers who question the control of other factors in the study.Great “food” for thought!
Thanks for sharing this find! I enjoyed reading this post as well as the comments above mine… I think I am going to agree with a lot of your other readers on this one with the whole “it doesn’t take into account daily caloric intake” and it doesn’t (does it?) account for the types of calories eaten after bed. To me it seems, if you eat a whole pizza and a garbage bag of french fries one day, you’re going to gain weight no matter if you do it at 3 PM or 9:30PM. Moreover, I would bet there is likely a correlation between when you weigh yourself and food consumption in the day as well.
My experience: I work until 5PM M-F so I don’t normally get to the gym until about 6. I don’t eat my PWO meal until 7-7:30PM (close enough to 8!). I then eat another meal of protein and fat right before bed. Just in my experience, I was able to get ‘stage lean’ following this routine… but I also closely calculated what and how much I was eating. But who knows, maybe I could have gotten leaner without that last meal?
OH And one more question: one of the big bodybuilder mythical fears is that your body will break apart some of your muscle for fuel in your sleep because it’s in starvation mode (i’m positive this is not news to you). What do you feel about that sentiment? See, now my mind is wandering and I want to conduct my own experiments.
The link I have found is between being very tired and eating too much in the hours before bed. According to the research I have read, there is an insulin-leptin-ghrelin connection to tiredness and eating too much. In other words, feeling very tired can make a person feel very hungry. For me, the answer to feeling so hungry in those late evening hours is to recognize the hormone connection to my tiredness and late evening snacking and hurry on up to bed before I eat high calorie foods I’d regret. 🙂 Marion
I’d be interested to see the correlation between number of calories consumed before 8pm and number of calories consumed after 8pm. I’d also like to see proportion of daily calories consumed after 8pm used as a predictor, rather than total number.
Personal experience is not data, at all, but for my part I never feel like eating dinner much earlier than 8 or 9, and never want anything but coffee for a few hours after waking.
Hmm, none of this applies to me. On the other hand I am a freak of nature and I eat when ever I feel like it and I certainly wont listen to Oprah. I think she is a judgemental bitch, but that is a personal opinion. If I stopped eating before 8 I would have to go over 14 hours with out food, a very bad idea with hypoglycemia and I would wake up puking bile on myself and passing out.
After living in Japan for 1.5yrs and sleeping on the floor (with a thin mat), my husband and I sold our bed upon returning (we kept the guest bed, dont’ worry). It looked really funny to our guests, so he built us a bed from 2×4’s and we added a small 2′ mat (futon like) to the top, so it has the appearance of a bed. We both LOVE it!
My husband and I have been sleeping on the floor ever since we went to Korea about six years ago! Most of the Koreans sleep on regular beds nowdays, but the older generation uses floor mats. We went with the floor mats because we never stayed in one place long enough to buy beds. Now we’ve been back in America for two years and won’t give up the floor for anything!
I eat after 8pm quite often. I’m not a morning person by nature at all and I usually wake up at 8:45ish, am at work at 9:30 (yay for short commutes)
Then I usually go to sleep at around 1-1:30am. So eating nothing at all from 8pm-1:30am is over 5 hours of no food at all and I can’t fall asleep easily if I’m hungry.
sorry, I meant 2″ mat (actually it is a memory foam mat)
I saw this study! I look at it this way. If you are trying to lose weight and you eat late, change your behavior. Actually if you are trying to lose weight, look at all your behaviors and change plenty of them! I eat late and for me, it does not make a difference. I gotta eat sometime 🙂
Hmmm, it that’s really true that eating after 8PM makes people gain weight then I’m screwed. I don’t get home from work until 5:45. If I run or go to the gym then I don’t get home until close to 8PM. Meaning I eat dinner at 8:30. I agree with everyone that information on the calorie breakdown would be nice. I don’t find that I’m more ravenous the later I stay up. In fact, the later it gets the less hungry I get.
While I’m not sure why it does, eating later than 8 p.m. or even 7 p.m. leads to weight gain for me. The caloric intake can be the same from day to day, but when I start eating even a small amount of those calories later, the scale starts to creak up. Even worse, my breakfast gets pushed back later and later in the day, which then makes me feel like I’m eating all day. It’s a bad cycle for me. I’m better off if I try and make that 7 p.m. deadline. Some days it doesn’t work and I find myself eating dinner at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and that’s ok once in a while. But overall, my digestion has an early bed time too.
Also, like you, my dreams take on a Stephen King-esque quality when I eat too late. It’s crazy. The husband thinks I should keep a dream journal and use the material to write a novel; give Isaac Asimov a run for his money. For me, I don’t mind the crack-dreams, but I can do without the five alarm heartburn that comes from a late night meal.
I’m wearing white jeans right now! (They were clean when I took them out of the dryer this morning and look really cute and slimming with my light blue shirt…) However, a trip to the backyard to feed the horses and dogs and they aren’t quite as white as they were. But I still LOVE them.
I eat dinner at 9-9:30 nearly every night and don’t notice any difference. If the sun is up, I’m gonna be outside enjoying it! Eat Shmeat… (grin)
Man, that study? SO FLAWED.
As was pointed out above, the study didn’t control for total calories consumed. Additionally, they state in the paper that “late sleepers consumed more calories at dinner and after 8:00 PM, had higher fast food, full-calorie soda and lower fruit and vegetable consumption.”
So, the so-called “late sleepers” ate more calories worth of crap compared to the normal group. They also weighed more. The difference in the BMI between the two groups was (slightly) larger than would be predicted by their model after they normalize for the length of time that the two groups slept (i.e. multiply by a made up factor since while it is known that sleeping less correlates to higher BMI, there is no exact number that can be used to account for this). Clearly the only explanation is that eating late causes weight gain!
(and don’t even get me started on how a group of 52 people is statistically insignificant for a lifestyle study like this)
Oh! And then there’s the whole “correlation does not equal causation” factor. These people didn’t gain weight during the week long study. They were already overweight. Perhaps being overweight leads to late night eating, and not the other way around.
Anne took everything that I was going to say =(
For me personally, I have to have a litle protein + fat before bed or I’ll wake up just ravenous in the middle of the night. And I haven’t noticed any correlation between how big that snack is and my weight, as long as my calories are controlled throughout the day. I think for some people, late night snacking can be indicative of stress (ie, if you’re alone and bored and lonely it’s easier to distract yourself with a gignatic bowl of ice cream than to just face your own loneliness), which can cause higher calorie intake and lower exercise output throughout the day.
Can you be more specific about which “funny sleeping baby”? I want to be sure I see the one you meant!
I find if I’m up late working on school stuff (ie. all the time) I need a small snack at about 9 to keep alert . I try to factor it in to my days food and make it a small healthy one. Often a cup of tea a one will do, but I’m a snacker, so I try and keep it to an apple or something light and it helps – otherwise the floodgates open and I’m worse off than if I hadn’t had anything at all and want to eat everything I see. I’m not sure if the eating late thing is linked to my weight…I know late night food for me is generally of the unhealthy empty munching while watching a movie or out with friends and THAT is what would get me, not the hour…but I’ve never p[aid too much attention to it. Perhaps I should…
Stayng up after 10 pm may kick up your cortisol levels, which will make you hungry. I almost always asleep before 10, but on an occasional late weekend night, I also get ravenous around 10:30 or so.
Also , check out this study re: carbohydrate and glucose metabolism changes as cortisol rises over night (this is normal): http://ajpendo.physiology.org/content/268/4/E595.abstract
I feel much better if I don’t eat dinner late and don’t snack after dinner in terms of sleep, digestion and the next morning.
You should get some Vibram Five Fingers for your sprints. They are grippy, feel just like bare feet and would be much safer on a treadmill than socks!
I’m the author of Sweet Dreams on a Hard Surface and have worked with many people who have converted to a more firm bed/sleeping environment with life changing results. I don’t think you actually read the whole article. http://www.zafu.net/sleepergonomics.html
You can’t just start it cold turkey. I know it’s in depth and long, but towards the last part there is a step-by-step-how-to get started. Also, it’s not about a rock hard surface for most people but a LESS SQUISHY surface, like an organic kapok/wool futon that in yielding but has a bottom to it, http://www.bodyfriendlyfurniture.com/futon and a platform bed instead of box springs or temurpedic.
http://www.bodyfriendlyfurniture.com/platformbedframe
Box springs have been shown to cause cancer as a study published in Scientific American has shown. And conventional chemical-laden bedding has severe anti-aging effects with all it’s flame retardant chemicals which studies have shown also cause birth defects.
For me it’s just about portion…my body can’t really tell if it’s late or not…but I DO notice that the sleepier I get, the more I might want to eat…as a way of calming my body down…that’s why I try to eat better throughout the day, so I’m not as hungry at night….AND (yes, this is a bit embarrasing) I put in my super awesome clear retainer at night to keep me from any cravings! haha years of keeping my teeth nice and straight is paying off!
I have always thought there was something to that (not the white pants though 😉 )
My personal theory was always that your metabolic rate slows during the day and is the slowest at night… and instead of having the day to working off that food, you spend the next X amount of hours sleeping (which is not the biggest calorie burner) — which is also why I used to eat a large breakfast, mid-sized lunch, and smaller dinner… it made more since to me…
I’ve also wondered if being extremely tired messes with your hunger cues… or promotes overeating due to mindless eating (via watching television or the like)
Anyhoo, for me, I recently got my hours upped at work and now I get home from my job at 10-11pm or so, so unfortunately I have to eat late… but I usually grab a bite to eat and then go for a 30 minute walk. and then I still have a couple of hours of schoolwork to do (readings, papers, etc). My weight’s been going consistently down (unintentionally). I think if the ood ingested is an equivalent substitute for a missed meal then it is just that… a substitute that’s necessary (even if it is late at night)
wow, I was tired when I wrote that… I don’t even remember writing it and I used “since” instead of “sense,” “working” instead of “work,” an odd use of multiple “and”s and commas, a lack of “f” on the word “food,” and probably even more errors than that (a lot even for a very casual blog comment)… egads!
Ha — the floor is a little bit TOO hard, I think. I actually sleep pretty well on a 3-inch-thick futon (just like in Japan! yay). It’s firmer than a mattress but doesn’t make you feel like your hips are jutting into the floorboards.
My guy and I tried the “no eating after 8pm” rule when we were in this hardcore dieting phase a while ago. I don’t remember if it helped at all. Probably not because we were always hungry from cutting calories. Also, a lot of the time our late eats are more emotional eating than hunger eating. (Tired, grumpy, stressed, whatever.) And that always leads to weight gain.
I am with Joob & some of the others…. I think not ALL the factors were looked at. I pay attention to the daily intake & outtake & I do eat a mini meal/snack less that 2 hours before bed & does not seem to hurt me. Honestly, if I ate a huge meal before bed, that would feel gross just lying down with all that food in me.. but a mini snack that is 200 calories or so works for me…. I eat it about 1 to 1.5 hours before bed – I go to bed early!
White jeans…maybe in a few months.
I often eat right before going to sleep, and it’s usually carb heavy – oats, sweet potatoes, etc. Did it all through my weight loss too. I can’t get to sleep if I’m hungry.
I’m a doctor. I’m pretty sure that the only relevant formula remains “calories in-calories out.”
From the discussion section of the article cited in your post:
“In categorical analyses, late sleepers consumed on average 248 more calories per day than normal sleepers, with the majority of the excess calories occurring at dinner and after 8:00 PM. Although the difference in total daily calories was not statistically significant, this difference would roughly equate to 2 lb per month if this difference persisted over time and was not balanced by greater energy expenditure.”
So, guess what, even the authors admit IT’S NOT THE TIMING OF THE CALORIES, IT’S THE TOTAL # OF CALORIES CONSUMED. Just like you suspected. In their study what they actually found was that night owls eat more (probably to help them stay awake), as well as later in the day.
People in countries where dinner is traditionally eaten near to bedtime (many Mediterranean countries for example), often well past 8 pm, are for the most part leaner by far than Americans.
I had heard about the study. Loved reading your post and the comments.
I know that late night eating definitely gets me into trouble. I used to teach night classes and gained a whole bunch of weight because I ate after I got home after 10 p.m. And I ate a lot. And that’s why I think I gained weight. When I allow myself to eat at night, I just tend to eat more. So I have made a very conscious effort to eat more earlier in the day so that I won’t eat at night. The problem with late night eating for me is that I’m not hungry in the morning and then eat calories very late. So I retrained myself to eat breakfast and meals and snacks throughout the day. I’m much more in control that way…
I think everyone is a little different, maybe. I tend not to eat after dinner, I’m just not hungry then. But..is a calorie just a calorie? I don’t think so. For example, I was vegetarian for many years, and six months or so ago decided to eat meat again. I decided to do this because I felt really tired a lot and had low thyroid tests (based on diet? I don’t know. My grandmother had hypothyroid and was absolutely not vegetarian!) But now six months later I don’t have any more energy and I’ve steadily gained weight. Also, I have a weird series of bumps on my eyelid that my doctor thinks are cholesterol deposits. Yuck! I know that some people will have very different results from a similar diet, that’s fine. And some people can eat at night, and some can’t. I’m rambling on again, but my point is that some people will do fine with something (eating late at night), and for someone else it will be a disaster. I think studies are great to think about but ultimately we all know what is best for us.
Oh, and P.S….I will never, ever wear white pants! Not since I was in junior high and my “monthly visitor” came unexpectedly whilst I was wandering around town… I have a real white pants phobia ever since. Also, I just don’t think they’re flattering.
I imagine it varies from person to person. For me, eating late at night is absolutely necessary… and I’ve gotten slimmer since consistently starting to do so. I am an absolute night owl, and so bedtime is 1-2am. If I stopped eating at 8, there’d be 5 to 6 hours of fasting before bed, and for someone who is hypoglycemic, that’s not smart. (Plus, I sleep badly if I’m hungry.) If I keep my blood sugar stable throughout the day and eat a little before bed, I sleep better and I wake up and am able to eat breakfast… if I’ve gotten hypoglycemic, I wake up feeling nauseous and the last thing I want to do is eat. Which turns into a vicious circle, naturally.
I don’t have a problem with craving sugar and stuff at night, generally, maybe because I’m not depriving myself – I eat a small, not-too-sugary meal with some carbs and some light protein, and that keeps my body happy.
I’ve slept on the cold tile floor of airports, a church in France (w/ a mat), a wood plank under a tent in Florida in June… thank you, Teen Missions. Perhaps that’s making myself out to be a martyr or something, but that’s my answer!
I pack snacks in my laptop bag so that I don’t go more 4 hours without food, but we usually don’t go to dinner until 8pm or later, so I don’t really have a choice about eating after 8pm. Bummer! I was hoping a calorie is a calorie but I believe the research.
My sleep story for you: I recently have read a lot about how much better it is for you to sleep on your back, so I decided to retrain myself (former side/stomach sleeper). I was able to get used to it in a week (meaning, it’s now my default), though it was really tough the first night or two. Maybe you should give that a try? Most successful “technique” for getting used to it was putting a pillow under your knees for the first night or two – it prevents you from flipping over. And I still cuddle a small throw pillow, which helps me feel more like my old default of curled in a ball (even though my body is now straight).
What’s wrong with white jeans? They are so cute as long as there’s no camel toe and they aren’t icky-tight!
I have no idea if there’s anything to this, but I know that lately I’ve not been hungry after dinner and haven’t been having any snacks before bed. Then I have been waking up at 4am RAVENOUS enough to wake me up and I have to go and get a bite of something just to calm the beast so that I can get back to sleep! So personally, I must reject that theory, and need to start forcing myself to have a little something (an egg white pillow, a bite of banana, tiny bit of ham/cheese) before bed. My sleep is really depending on it!
I do the best when I stop eating by 4 or 5pm. I haven’t been following that very well lately, however… think I’m going to focus on that because my body feels better AND I lose weight when I stop eating earlier in the day.
I sleep on the ground when I go camping. Since it’s after hiking for 8+ hours, I’m usually so exhausted that it feels like the most amazing bed ever 😉
PS Jenn and I missed you at FitBloggin!
What is with all the white jean haters! They are chic and summery and go with everything! I’ve got two pairs ready and waiting if only the weather would improve here in the Northeast.
Here’s one counter argument to the don’t eat after 8 thing: my mom weighs 115 when soaking wet (yes, there are issue eeeverywhere in our family) and never eats dinner before 9:30PM. If she were European I would chalk it up to that but she lives in NJ and grew up in North Carolina…I think it’s a lot more complicated than research may show.
Hey I think white jeans can be really cute and flattering too – my problem is the mess factor! I have 4 kids, they would stay white for….two seconds. Every once in a while Oprah says something like that where I’m reminded that yeah, she’s never really been around little kids:)
Haha! True enough. I have to imagine even her dogs can’t come near Oprah when she’s wearing white.
I wonder if they controlled for whether people were eating after dinner or simply having a late dinner. In a lot of European countries, very late dinners are the norm, but there is no pre-bed bucket of ice cream following the meal, of course.
I used to be MILITANT about never eating any later than 5:30, and would have full-blown anxiety attacks if something disrupted that. Then I started college, and my overloaded schedule meant that often I wasn’t even home from class til 8 or later. Now I rarely, if ever eat dinner before 8, and it’s not uncommon for me to not finish before 9, and typically go to bed around 11…but it doesn’t seem to have affected my weight, because that late eating isn’t in addition to calories from an earlier dinner. It’s fascinating to see how back-and-forth the research conclusions have gone on this issue, though, probably because it’s so hard to get a definite answer when people’s metabolisms vary so much. Will definitely have to dig up the original journal article for this one to see details of how they did study!
From my personal experience eating late at night makes me gain weight. But, if you are working out a lot which I do, it is very beneficial to have some Casein such as low fat cottage cheese right before bed. I noticed if I don’t do that I begin to loose muscle very fast. But if you are not working out, it is best not to eat before bed, especially carbohydrates.
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