Eating After 6pm, Jimmy Carr lost 3 stone this way! Really?

it sounds like a slimming world diet.... except you can eat after 6

gonedrinking wrote: »

Its not about the law of thermodynamics. We still have a huge amount to learn about metabolism. I'm saying I eat all the food I usually eat by 7pm and as a result I have more energy during the time that I need the energy. But everyone is different, what works for me mightn't work for you. There is no exact science to it, we all just have to adjust our diet and exercise regime until we get the results we want. Its that simple.

Yes it is.
Yes you have.
You said initially you lost weight eating the same amount of food, not that you have more energy. If you're only basing this assessment on what you 'think' you 'remember', it's not very valid. Heck, it's not too valid even if you noted the food you were eating before and after the change. There are studies that show that meal pattern does not matter, only total calories and macro composition is important when losing/gaining/maintaining weight. See http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=70692193&postcount=43

While I don't disagree that not eating after X pm has worked for you, it's the cause of it working you're not getting right: limiting calories. You would have had the same results by not eating breakfast and keeping calories the same.

I think some people associate eating a large dinner late at night with feeling bloated in the morning. So they mistake that empty feeling after hours of no food as 'weight loss' because they cut the food out at a certain hour. Its just the result of a 12 hour fast i.e. less food..

This whole no food after 6 thing started a few years back, I think Oprah was the culprit.

Due to work etc, my dinner is usually at 9 each night. My weight loss has been attributed to what I was eating and how much - not at what time.

BlueIsland wrote: »

To simplify this and end this absolute crap. The only factor that matters for weight loss is: the amount of calories you use per day versus the amount you consume. Now I am not talking bout being healthy and fit when source of calories become vital. The time you consume the calories is a bloody myth which is not even worth debating.

Totally agree. This belief that if you stop eating carbs late in the evening will result in weight loss is a complete fad.

I was weary enough with the way I phrased that Hanley! Just tried to make it fairly simple equation of calories in vs calories out. I always think say of a guy who goes on a "liquid diet" i.e drinking the head of himself. Eats probably a bag of chips or something in a day, smokes a load of cigarettes and 10 pints. he wont put on weight. He will be fierce unhealthy cos of his sources of calories but at end of day 2500 calories IS 2500 calories!

CKonetheonlyone wrote: »

there are approximately 400 cals in a pint of lager though?

I have my doubts on this.

Kimia wrote: »

I have my doubts on this.

you're right, my bad. happy to be wrong about this

CKonetheonlyone wrote: »

there are approximately 400 cals in a pint of lager though?

Seeing as a pint of guinness is 170 kcal, I doubt a pint of lager is 400.

While I don't disagree that not eating after X pm has worked for you, it's the cause of it working you're not getting right: limiting calories. You would have had the same results by not eating breakfast and keeping calories the same.[/QUOTE]

I have lost about 3-4 stone of fat in about the last 2 years and in my experience the most consistant weight loss comes when i am in a period of not eating after dinner, usually not after 7.

Are you sure about that bit in bold? it strikes me that with breakfast eaten you have calories in the food that can be used more easily than burning fat which happens more slowly. on the other hand when you are asleep with an empty stomach you have to burn fat to pump blood and stay warm etc, but your body is asleep for most of it so it can happen nice and slowly.

I have never done a food diary but i imagine i eat the same amount as before up until dinner. Thinking about it, the kind of food i used to eat at night was crap anyway, crisps and junk.

come 10 or 12 i am pretty hungry most nights but considering i am usually relaxing at that time its not a hunger i feel i have to satisfy. has anyone ever noticed the type of food ads on tv late at night? Pure sh1t.

people can do all sorts of things to convince themselves to cut out a meal or two or cut out whole food groups or even just cut back on calories.

I think we should just decalorize and use the hottiebodyhumpilates program and the jimmy K diet!!

Boom!!