Calories matter most, not so much when you eat them (except if eating them at a certain time makes it easier or more difficult to stick with your plan).
I must admit that I find it easier to lose track of my calories with evening snacks than with meals, but I think it was because of the way I dealt with snacks. Meals (even when I wasn't dieting or measuring) were limited in time and portion. (I sat down, ate my meal and when the meal was over, I put the food away).
With evening snacks, I would sit down, watch tv with a bag of chips constantly at my side and I would eat all evening from the chip bag until the bag was empty. Now that I measure out my evening snack, that's less of a problem (and when I forget or am too lazy to measure, I end up overeating).
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