eating in the evening
 

Does anyone else like to save tha majority of their calories for the evening? I have always been one for late night snacks so I plan to use a bunch of my calories then. That way I don't go to bed hungry. I also tend to get the munchies around 9:00 so I figure that using my daily allowance then makes sense.

Susan

I find that if I do that, I don't lose. Everybody is different! It just doesn't work for me but that's when I habitually want to snack or even eat full meals...so I just don't eat after dark, period! I have water or a cup of herbal tea instead.

Starting with dinner is when I tend to go down hill. I have alot of trouble keeping things under control after 5. I have started drinking water when I want to snack and that seems to help.

I eat like half of my calories for the day at dinner and a snack after...so, like 700 calories all day until dinner. I'm pretty hungry by the time I eat dinner - but I try to fill up on water.

I eat about 1/2 of my calories up TO dinner, and the other half at dinner and for evening snacks. It works for me. I tried eating more calories earlier in the day and about wanted to eat the house!

I do better if I eat about 300 calories four different times. I also distribute my carbs more to the morning because they are energy, and I crave less carb filled snacks at night.

I eat about 1/2 of my calories prior to dinner and 1/2 my calories from dinner onward. I've *always* been this way. It didn't seem to interfere with my weight loss at all. Now that I'm upping my calories to maintain, though, I'm trying to add more calories during the day, but that's just because I'm not hungry enough in the evening to add in enough extra calories then.

I eat most of my cals by 4pm, the around 6pm I eat dinner (somewhere around 400 cals. But I do not snack after dinner, I am not (thank goodness) an evening snacker. I have to have my 3pm snack, that is what saves me!

I use up about 2/3 of my calories by the time I'm ready to leave work.
So I use about 1000 in breakfast, lunch, and [multiple] snacks, and then I have about 500 for the dinnertime meal.

Sometimes I'll have another snack before or after dinner, or munching on things while I cook... but it leaves me with a nice, full meal. I've found that eating/snacking all day makes me hungry! (I usually divide breakfast and lunch in half and spread it out with snacks, so I eat a little all the time.) Since I am used to small 'meals' all day long, when I sit down to a dinner of lots of food, I feel [nice and] full, and I don't want to snack at night.

I try to use 50% of my calories during the day and 50% for dinner, but it usually ends up being around 30-40% during the day and 60-70% for dinner.
I always feel hungrier at night when i am not doing anything than during the day when I am busy.

Thanks for the input ladies. I don't feel so alone now. I usually eat around 500-600 calories during the day and save the rest for the evening. I am allowing myself 1500 per day. Sometimes I get in around 1300. I like to know that I really have something to look forward to in the evening.

I'm about a 50 before dinner, 50 % after person too. It varies depending on the exercise for the day (like....if I'm going hiking I HAVE to eat more in the morning and afternoon). I usually eat dinner as soon as I get home (so in the 5:30-6 time frame) and then have a "mini meal" of yogurt and something else very near bedtime so I'm not kept awake with a grumbling stomach.

I am a big nightime snacker/eater. I try and eat as little as I can throughout the day so that i will be able to eat a lot for dinner. I think the main reason for that is that I am busy during the day, and then I get home and have nothing to do, and am surrounded by food and suddenly I am super hungry. I know I am going to eat a lot around dinnertime, so I try and plan for it, because I will do it no matter how much I eat during the day.

I am unfortunately a night snacker also, but tonight I ate at Red Lobster (I ate grilled things, though I did have two or three chicken fingers) and saved half of each my appetizer and my main course for tomorrow and Sunday (tomorrow is my cousin's wedding). I am a night snacker when I watch movies or when I am bored. This is why I try to eat dinner before watching TV or I load up, but sometimes, schoolwork stresses me out and I just take a lot of food and munch in front of the computer/TV, hence I gained two of my lost pounds. I control it on weekends though, or when I am not under stress.

Hope you don't mind my popping in on this. My dinner calorie total is the biggest of the day. Also, I used to be afraid that eating too close to bedtime would make me lose slower, but I found that I sleep so much better if I save a (healthy) snack for around 9pm. Whatever works, go for it!

I agree with the other ladies I usually eat 50-60% of my calories at dinner. I also try to not snack after dinner. When I start eating I have a hard time stopping. Because of that I stick to a pretty traditional eating plan. And for some reason if I eat before bed I wake up just dying of hunger. If I don't eat than I am fine in the morning (maybe my stomache shrinks:crossed: )

It's good to see there are others with similar eating habits. I've always been an evening/night eater. When I've dieted successfully I saved most of my calories for the evening and lost anyway because it all equaled out over the 24hours.
As someone else said earlier, if I eat early in the day, I just want to keep on eating.
Bi.