Does Eating Late At Night Make You Gain Weight

For years, a VERY WELL KNOWN weight loss expert (supposedly) keeps telling us to stop eating by 7:00 PM.

First of all, that is virtually impossible for anyone who has a life. How do you pick up the kids from gymnastics and soccer at 6:30 and 6:45 and possibly get home, make dinner, do homework and eat before 7:00?

Or how does an office worker sneak out of the office when he/she is on deadline and the whole staff is staying way past 9:00?

It’s not logical and is only confusing.

Now, research from the University of Texas had 867 people keep food diaries that divided the day into four-hour periods.

It turns out that the people who ate the most in the morning (we already knew this) ate less total calories throughout the day and the people who ate late at night ate more.

But, that was for people who were snacking. In another study, the Spaniards and Muslims who ate late at night actually ate less, BUT that was because they ate a late meal (dinner) and not because of snacking.

So, eating late at night is fine….if it’s a meal, not snacking.

Jim