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eating before sleep?
Is it bad to eat something about 1 hour befor going to bed?
I just cant sleep if i didn't take any food And do you suggest me to eat so late..? tnx -- www.myPopQ.com - let's find out. |
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eating before sleep?
On Nov 28, 3:03 pm, "moi kytano" wrote:
Is it bad to eat something about 1 hour befor going to bed? I just cant sleep if i didn't take any food And do you suggest me to eat so late..? tnx --www.myPopQ.com- let's find out. I've never had problems eating before bed time. In fact, I can't go to sleep if I'm too hungry. I try to eat something easy to digest and not very calorie laden. Yogurt or grapes are my usual choices. If you're trying to lose weight it shouldn't matter when you eat as long as you stay within your calorie allowance. Beverly |
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"moi kytano" of t-com wrote:
Is it bad to eat something about 1 hour befor going to bed? I just cant sleep if i didn't take any food I acquired the habit of eating before going to bed as a kid, and have continued it as an adult. It's now too ingrained for me to give it up, but it's habit, not real hunger. So I try to eat something very small with only about 20 calories - a single sun dried tomato, a crispbread, a low fat cheese spread portion, a single walnut, a slice of Quorn meat substitute. I avoid sweet things at this time, even fruit, as I find them less psychologicaly satisfying. Having eaten a small item I then turn on the alarm system and go upstairs so that I'd have to turn it off again to reach the kitchen to eat any more. I also clean my teeth, since toothpaste spoils the taste of food. By using these tricks to restrain me from eating more I've got used to a much smaller snack before bed. Steph 239/169/119 -- Those who are mentally and emotionally healthy are those who have learned when to say yes, when to say no and when to say whoopee. W.S. Krabill Steph Peters delete invalid from lid Tatting, lace & stitching page http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm |
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eating before sleep?
On Nov 28, 12:03 pm, "moi kytano" wrote:
Is it bad to eat something about 1 hour befor going to bed? I just cant sleep if i didn't take any food And do you suggest me to eat so late..? Unless you suffer from say acid reflux, it doesnt matter if you eat even right before you hop into bed. Its the number of overall calories consumed in a day that really matters. Its said not to eat after a certain time (never after 6pm etc)because people tend to overeat/eat snacks later at night. But think about it, you are sleeping for perhaps eight hours (lucky you!) with no food and when you sleep your body repairs itself, so why wouldnt/shouldnt you eat before bedtime? I like to eat something lighter like cottage cheese/fruit or a bowl of cereal before bedtime. joanne |
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eating before sleep?
On Nov 28, 12:03 pm, "moi kytano" wrote:
Is it bad to eat something about 1 hour befor going to bed? I just cant sleep if i didn't take any food And do you suggest me to eat so late..? tnx --www.myPopQ.com- let's find out. It is OK to eat something before bed of course. It has been shown in animal studies...mice I believe that eating large meals instead of smaller ones but both regimes consuming the same calories, that the binge eaters picked up weight. In this regard, it might even be better, but probably not significant to eat a little before bedtime. I don't because I have no good concept of when I am hungry or not, so I don't trust my hunger mechanism at all. When I used to be fat, I could consume a huge meal, then still feel hungry. Conversely, I noticed I was starving at nighttime....but if I didn't eat and went to bed, in the morning I would get up and not be as hungry as the night before...this after essentially 7 hours of not eating and having felt starved the night before. I think this is a big part of the diet problem. Of course there are people who eat like birds and fill up very quickly, but of course they are quite thin. The rest of us seem to have huge appetites and never really feel full. Probably in times of food shortage which was throughout most of man's existence, it was a survival mechanism to be hungry and consume as much food as you possibly could...high fat food at that, since you might not be eating in a long time. Unfortunately, people haven't been able to shed this mechanism even though food is plentiful in much of the world. dkw |
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" of http://groups.google.com wrote:
I think this is a big part of the diet problem. Of course there are people who eat like birds and fill up very quickly, but of course they are quite thin. The rest of us seem to have huge appetites and never really feel full. Probably in times of food shortage which was throughout most of man's existence, it was a survival mechanism to be hungry and consume as much food as you possibly could...high fat food at that, since you might not be eating in a long time. Also I think this is behaviour we learn as children. If you were brought up, as I was, in a household where everything on the plate had to be finished with no exceptions, then you didn't get to learn when you were full in order to stop eating. I learnt to keep on eating after getting full, with the result that I no longer really know when I'm full and should stop. This is a really bad thing for parents to be teaching children; they need to learn when to stop. I've got over the not leaving anything on the plate hang-up, even when I'm in control of what goes on the plate to begin with. But knowing when I'm full is more of a problem. I have to use portion control in the kitchen when cooking and serving food so that I only have modest amounts on the plate. I've also found it good for me to eat dinner, have a moderate sized drink (tea/water usually) and wait some time before deciding on dessert. After half an hour or so I can accurately assess that either I am hungry and need more food or not. If I ask myself this question on finishing the main course then I always want something else, whereas after a wait some days I am full and do not want more food. Steph 239/167/119 |
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On Nov 28, 12:03 pm, "moi kytano" wrote:
Is it bad to eat something about 1 hour befor going to bed? I don't think it makes a difference to gross weight management. However, if you want to have a picture-perfect, ripped beach body, then this kind of thing does make a difference. Fact is, that when you go to sleep, your metabolism is about to slow down, so it's a bad time to be fueling up. Your body doesn't care about caloric accounting over an entire day or week. If you stuff yourself relative to your instantaneous activity level, you have an instantaneous surplus which is generating fat! If you're already lean, and want to become leaner, then it's no longer just about calories. Fat is easy to store and it's difficult to mobilize out of storage, if you aren't carrying lots of it. A caloric surplus of X can store fat more easily than a deficit -X can take it out. Even though X cancels - X energetically (no surplus or deficit) you can end up with fat being stored. Of course, since there is no energetic surplus or deficit, this storage of fat must be balanced by a cut somewhere else: a metabolic slowdown, or loss of lean mass! In other words, if you suddenly overeat by 2000 calories in some meal, you cannot repent for it by subsequently cutting back on 2000 calories over the next little while. That cutback will not undo the effects of the overeating. The fat won't come out as easily as it went in. The starvation will only slow down your metabolism and attack your lean mass. Sure, if you're carrying 80 pounds of body fat, the total calories matter much more than anything else. Caloric accounting works fairly accurately, then. If you're carrying only 15 pounds of body fat and want that to be 8, it doesn't quite work that way any longer. Meal timing, meal frequency, meal sizes, meal composition all matter. Whether you do aerobic exercise before or after breakfast matters. All the little things matter more and more the more perfect you want to be. |
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On Nov 30, 3:24 pm, Steph Peters
wrote: " ofhttp://groups.google.comwrote:I think this is a big part of the diet problem. Of course there are people who eat like birds and fill up very quickly, but of course they are quite thin. The rest of us seem to have huge appetites and never really feel full. Probably in times of food shortage which was throughout most of man's existence, it was a survival mechanism to be hungry and consume as much food as you possibly could...high fat food at that, since you might not be eating in a long time. Also I think this is behaviour we learn as children. If you were brought up, as I was, in a household where everything on the plate had to be finished with no exceptions, then you didn't get to learn when you were full in order to stop eating. I learnt to keep on eating after getting full, with the result that I no longer really know when I'm full and should stop. This is a really bad thing for parents to be teaching children; they need to learn when to stop. I've got over the not leaving anything on the plate hang-up, even when I'm in control of what goes on the plate to begin with. But knowing when I'm full is more of a problem. I have to use portion control in the kitchen when cooking and serving food so that I only have modest amounts on the plate. I've also found it good for me to eat dinner, have a moderate sized drink (tea/water usually) and wait some time before deciding on dessert. After half an hour or so I can accurately assess that either I am hungry and need more food or not. If I ask myself this question on finishing the main course then I always want something else, whereas after a wait some days I am full and do not want more food. Steph 239/167/119 That's true. In fact parents, if they aren't careful will tend to eat their kids food that the kids didn't eat....and conveniently forget about those calories because they were consumed very quickly while standing in front of the sink. What I do, and have trained my 12-year- old to do is to take small portions and then refills if we want them. Just look at buffets where people waste half or more of the food. Kids especially put 4 slices of pizza on their plates, then after one taste, decide they don't really like it. I do have a problem with that. It does seem wrong to waste food in that manner at least. My gosh, they could try the smallest piece of pizza then come back for more. I essentially still eat everything on my plate, but control not overeating by knowing exactly...almost to the calorie of what. If I attend a function where they provide large portions of something, I ask for the smallest and if it is still more than I want to eat, I have no compunction to "waste" that food. In the good old days, people always took any leftovers home or before dog food, everyone had dogs that ate this food, or pigs so nothing got wasted. At a local restaurant which is in fact a pizza buffet, I asked if they use the not-eaten pizza for hogs or something, but they don't. This idea is a continuim of the throw-away society we live in. We essentially throw away oil by driving Hummers, etc., throw away kids by not taking the needed time to nurture and rear them properly, and throw away spouses by divorcing them for any number of reasons. Those kind of problems begin with the person...me, in this case, and I simply refuse to contribute to any of it. dkw |
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Steph Peters wrote:
This is a really bad thing for parents to be teaching children; they need to learn when to stop. I've been pounding my nannies' heads with this info. If the kids stop eating, then STOP FEEDING THEM! Every nanny wants the kids to finish what *she* thinks is a meal, not what the kids think is a meal. My 2yo is a great eater. He loves to eat a little bit of everything. When he's full, he's full. You can't tempt him with chocolate! I want to keep it that way. -- Anita -- 149/141/125 |
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eating before sleep?
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:03:03 +0100, moi kytano wrote:
Is it bad to eat something about 1 hour befor going to bed? Depends on what you ate in total before. I just cant sleep if i didn't take any food Then eat. And do you suggest me to eat so late..? tnx Sure, then don't eat anymore. |
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