No eating after 6pm rule

gilwood · Dec 9, 2009

My friend was raving all about how he stopped eating after 6pm everyday and how he lost 10 lbs. I tried it for a few days and I do feel slimmer. How anyone else tried this? I think part of the equation is to eat normally for breakfast and lunch tho. None of that eat as much as you want...

upnorth · Dec 9, 2009

I would try it except for the fact that I would have to get up at 3am in the morning for breakfast.

gilwood · Dec 9, 2009

It's probably geared towards a "wake at 7am & bed at 11pm" lifestyle.

jgold47 · Dec 9, 2009

Originally Posted by gilwood

It's probably geared towards a "wake at 7am & bed at 11pm" lifestyle.

um something like bed at 9. I have always heard 3 hours before bed. if you have to eat less than 3 hours, I have heard just to be careful what you eat, just keep it light, no sugar and not a lot of protein. Just has to do with how your body digests food while you are sleeping.

grundletaint · Dec 9, 2009

the idea, i think, is that you eat early enough that your body still has time to burn a lot of it while you're moving around rather than sit in your stomach while you're asleep.

edit, what he said ^^^

DHV · Dec 9, 2009

Mostly about not eating carbs after that time.

jaydc7 · Dec 9, 2009

the rule is bull ****... its mainly for people who have a problem with midnight snacking.

Mr. Moo · Dec 9, 2009

Calories in < calories out = lose weight

Doesn't matter when those calories are consumed.

edmorel · Dec 9, 2009

Originally Posted by Mr. Moo

Calories in < calories out = lose weight

Doesn't matter when those calories are consumed.

taking dieting advice from you as like taking dance lessons from Christopher Reeves.

kwilkinson · Dec 9, 2009

Originally Posted by edmorel

taking dieting advice from you as like taking dance lessons from Christopher Reeves.

We all know there's only one thing you eat after 6 pm, Ed.

Mr. Moo · Dec 9, 2009

Originally Posted by edmorel

taking dieting advice from you as like taking dance lessons from Christopher Reeves.

It has worked for me though.

Svenn · Dec 9, 2009

Bro's a doc and it is true that eating within a couple hours of sleep doesn't do you much good (unless you didn't eat the whole day previous to that of course). Sumo wrestlers in Japan actually use that technique to gain weight- eat a bunch of noodles (carbs) sleep, wake-up and eat, repeat. Traditional Buddhist monks is Southeast Asia don't eat after noon I believe, and with 2500 years experience they're probably somewhat in tune with what the body requires.

Evolutionarily speaking, primitive man wouldn't have access to hordes of food at dusk or nightime, he probably ate at daylight...

dragon8 · Dec 9, 2009

I don't eat after 7PM and it has helped me lose weight.

imhotep · Dec 9, 2009

no study has shown a correlation between abstaining from feeding at night and weight loss. they have shown that there is no difference when weight loss is the measured outcome, provided that the total number of calories consumed per day is the same in both groups (night eaters vs non-night eaters).

Exalt · Dec 9, 2009

Even though I do this, I have asked a dietitian about it who told me it is useless. As everyone says, it always comes down to calories in and calories out. For what it matters, in medical school I have never come across a textbook or study substantiating the effectiveness of this behavior!

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