It is going on 11:00 PM here and I'm hungry. I ate very light today. Would it hurt me to have a cup of applesauce or a fe graham crackers? If I do not eat something now, I know I will get up in the middle of the night to chow on something.

Thanks!

It’s a Spanish tradition: Have your last meal late at night, about 9:00 P.M., not long before you head to bed.

Eating right before bedtime? Isn’t that an invitation to obesity?

Evidently not. There’s now scientific evidence that you don’t gain more weight if you eat late at night. Several studies confirm that when you at has no connection with weight, and survey by the Department of Agriculture has demonstrated that evening eating in particular has no more effect on your weight than morning eating.

It’s the total number of calories consumed daily and expended in activity that makes – or breaks – weight gain. Apparently, the time of day when you consume those calories or burn them is really not an issue. The calories in your bedtime snack will be burned when they are needed. Even sleep burns about 50 calories an hour.

Dr. Howard M. Shapiro

You know lately I have just been eating when I am hungry.

Not when its "lunch" time etc. If I am hungry before bed - I have a snack. I mean if I have the points - why not.

Listen to your hunger and feed it. Its when we eat and are NOT hungry that its a problem.

Tara