Our body is biologically preprogrammed to work around the circadian clock (active during the day and relaxing at night), that's why our boddies don't burned enough calories at night. I suggested eat something low or non calories like fruit, salads and vegetables.... Good Luck


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Is that true? I know I've seen it used all over the place but I thought it was disproved. With-in the normal waking hours of a healthy human being your body handles the food you give it the same way whether it gets it in the morning, afternoon, or night. That big piece of cheesecake isn't going straight to your hips because you ate it at 9pm; it would do the same at 10am because it put you 1500 calories over your daily allotment.

For certain your body needs sleep and if you don't get enough or if you sleep at times against the natural circadian clock (like shiftworkers are forced to do) there are a number of things that happen that physiologically that make it harder for you to lose weight, even if all you are eating is small green salads. (all my bookmarks for this are on the work computer which I'll access around midnight tonight...) All I can remember is the increased ghrelin and decreased leptin from shift work makes it harder to lose but there's more to it than that.

Anyway, enough of my ramblings, I obviously need more sleep before work tonight. But I don't think the actual type of food you eat at night matters, it is you're more likely to eat more of it because of bad habits and decreased leptin. Better to skip the snack and go to bed early - your rested body will work better at handling the food you feed it and you can't snack while you're snoozing so it's a double win!

Here's an article on webmd about how lack of sleep makes it harder to lose weight. Really, those late night cravings are your body telling you to go to bed...

http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders...while-sleeping

a couple interesting quotes from the article:

So what's the connection to sleep? "When you don't get enough sleep, it drives leptin levels down, which means you don't feel as satisfied after you eat. Lack of sleep also causes ghrelin levels to rise, which means your appetite is stimulated, so you want more food," Breus tells WebMD.

Until doctors do know more, most experts agree that if you are dieting, logging in a few extra hours of sleep a week is not a bad idea, particularly if you get six hours of sleep or less a night. You may just discover that you aren't as hungry, or that you have lessened your craving for sugary, calorie-dense foods.

"One thing I have seen is that once a person is not as tired, they don't need to rely on sweet foods and high carbohydrate snacks to keep them awake -- and that automatically translates into eating fewer calories," says Breus.

and then details from a study where 1000 men were deprived of sleep:
When sleep was restricted, leptin levels went down and ghrelin levels went up. Not surprisingly, the men's appetite also increased proportionally. Their desire for high carbohydrate, calorie-dense foods increased by a whopping 45%.

It was in the Stanford study, however, that the more provocative meaning of the leptin-ghrelin effect came to light. In this research -- a joint project between Stanford and the University of Wisconsin -- about 1,000 volunteers reported the number of hours they slept each night. Doctors then measured their levels of ghrelin and leptin, as well as charted their weight.

The result: Those who slept less than eight hours a night not only had lower levels of leptin and higher levels of ghrelin, but they also had a higher level of body fat. What's more, that level of body fat seemed to correlate with their sleep patterns. Specifically, those who slept the fewest hours per night weighed the most.

I can eat minutes before going to sleep and it does nothing, absolutely nothing to my weight. As long as I stay within my allotted calories within that 24 hour time frame, it doesn't make one lick of a difference when I eat them.

Go to bed! Sleep! I get that if you are eating within your plan and eat your final calories of the day right before bed that it will not affect your weight. BUT, if you are staying up late and are tired, you are more likely to make poor decisions. You can't eat while you're sleeping.:p

lol, true, thanks for all the good advice everyone. Unfortunately, last night I was up until 2amish. Ugh insomnia! When I finally crawled into bed, I started to feel sick, checked my blood sugar and realized I had to eat something. So I drank a little glass of OJ. I hope that didn't screw me up. :( I checked the scale today and it says I'm back at 180... but I drank a LOT of water yesterday, plus it' really hot today, plus it'snot even my official weigh in day (that's like 12 days away lol) so I'm not going to worry about it.