Get Informed with Apex’s Daily Q & A: Q: The bodybugg food log allows for a snack between dinner and bedtime; yet I’ve always heard the body doesn’t efficiently metabolize anything eaten after 7:00(pm).
A:
If you're using the bodybugg system, you should be able to answer this question. If you have burned 2000 calories by dinner time, and you've only consumed 1000 calories so far for the day, then you know you can eat 1000 more calories before you will gain weight. But you will also be burning calories for the rest of the day between 7PM and midnight (let's say that's 250 more calories burned because you were sedentary). Well, you just ended the day in a 250 calorie deficit and lost weight EVEN THOUGH you consumed 1000 calories after 7PM!
Will eating past 7 p.m., result in weight gain?
NO! In fact, have your last meal in bed if you want-just don't consume more calories than you burn for the day. By the way, a day is 24 hours, so who cares when you eat your calories?
The body does not have an enzyme with a watch that, after 7 p.m., preferentially stores items, especially carbohydrates, as fat. Everyone has a certain number of calories they can consume without gaining weight. If you happen to change your daily schedule and end up eating a final meal or snack later in the evening without changing your calories, you are in no danger of accumulating weight as a result of that minor alteration. Ideally, however, you would spread your allotted number of calories throughout the day to prevent hunger and prevent wild fluctuations in blood sugar levels, which can sap your energy levels.
(on a personal note, I find that if I eat too much or too heavy of a mail late in the evening that affects my sleep)
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Yours in Health, Wellness, and a Fabulous smelling home/office,
Sharron Grzybowski
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