mummybunny2005 wrote:
Here's one for the science nerds (I can post it in the lab too if necessary) - I'd always heard that the later you eat the more likely you are to hold onto the calories as fat. For years dieting gurus said never to eat just before you go to bed. If your window is, say 2pm till 10pm and you go to bed soon after that (and don't eat again till 2 the next afternoon), does this still hold true? This is the reason my husband insists on breakfast, but it seems to me that it's the fast itself that has the benefit, not the time you fast. So even if you do go to bed on a full stomach, if you give yourself the full 16 hours before eating again you're getting as much benefit as if your eating window had been, say, 8am to 4pm.
Does this make sense?
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I would like to comment, not that I see myself as an expert, so please bear with me. This is how I understand it at this point, and I know this will change again in weeks and months , depending on what I read(brain washed by the media) as well as experience through this journey.
1. Yes, the fasting has other effects on your body. One for example is Growth Hormone that gets excreted once your insulin is shut down because you have not had food. For how many hours you'd ask? I would say it depends how much food you had at your last meal and how depleted your liver and muscles(glycogen) was before your meal. GH is the hormone that helps to burn body fat as a source of energy. If you eat every 3 hours, you insulin will stay high and your body will not use body fat(in the nerd section there are more on this subject). IE your liver and pancreas and intestines actually has time to recover, and create new cells. That is why(how I understand) they say GH is the anti aging hormone.
2.You body won't hold onto food in the form of fat. If your stores(blood glucose, liver, muscles) are depleted from glycogen(broken down food) I am SURE your body will appreciate that food and start apply it again to these stores.Yes, eat too much, don't move and it will store it as fat. Again how many hours before it will get stored? I'd like that answer too. That is why one need to look at the amount of calories you do take in in one day. I also feel(and experience) that even going for a walk, will help those stores to get depleted, in case you had too much, to rather use it than store it.
3. My experience is to not eat 2 to 3 hours before going to sleep, especially after a fast, as all your organs are active now and working together to get that food broken down and to its place for storing. My heart rate is higher, I feel restless and my stomach is rumbling. Not that I think it is bad to go to sleep, the sleep will just be more restless if you immediately go to bed.
4. What is the ideal time frame to have the food? Everyone is different what they can manage and still do life. You can fit in alot of calories in 8 hours. Making that time frame shorter, will help to reduce the total calories you eat, without counting as you listen to your body.My rule is, if I am hungry, drink water first.
5.Does your husband exercise on a regular basis? Then there are a few other things I would add to the routine.
6.As BSSH said above, try it, and see how your body reacts, ie shed the fat or not.
As I said it's my opinion and would love to hear what others have to say on it
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