Insomniac

i am an insomniac.... so here's the problem...

i always wondered, if the rule about not eating before you go to bed thing is true, is that before you go to bed or in general at nite because I got to bed around 5or6am every day and wake up between noon and 2pm every day.

Does the day light affect your metoblism or digestion differently than the evening light?

 

i've been trying to stick to my diet, it's working but just curious if logically for any reason being a nite owl cud b ruining it...

any ideas?

Hi Jadedsugar,

I think you just shouldn't eat before you go to bed at 5-6am in the morning. I think the body adjusts to whatever schedule you might have regardless of daylight or nightly darkness.

But then I've never looked into It in detail.

However a friend of mine told me that she can't sleep aswell when there is light shining into her bedroom as she would if it was pitch black. So I'm sure it may affect the quality of your sleep.

Technically speaking you still do what everyone else does but you sleep from 6am - 2pm no harm in that I think. Who made the rule anyways that we have to sleep at night time and not during the day?

The rule of thumb as I understand it is don't eat 2 hours before you put your head down on your pillow.  This apparently gives your body a bit of a boost while sleeping and every calorie or two that you burn counts eventually.

Have you tried Melatonin?  Take 1 or 2 about an hour before you want to fall asleep.  It sounds like you have probably tried everything, but this helped me.

yeah, i think its just before you go to bed in general. i'm an insomniac too. however, i try to stay away from food after 8:30ish, because i tend to binge eat at night. like, i'll just be sitting up awake, and everyone else is sleeping, and i'm bored, and because i'm dieting i suddenly think of all the food i cant eat. anyone else have that problem?

when you sleep you burn less calories, so if you take in 300 calories in a meal, go to sleep and burn about 70-80 calories a hour, and digestion takes less than one hour for that meal, then you throw about 200 calories of that meal into your fat storage.

when you sleep, metabolism is slower, thus more excess energy from food, which is thrown into storage- your fat cells.