Should You Eat Carbs at Night?
Find out if eating carbs at night will make you gain weight.
Monica Reinagel, MS, LD/N, CNS
Q. I’ve heard from some friends that they lost weight by eating lots of fruits and veggies (plus a treat every now and then). Also, they didn’t eat carbohydrates after 6 p.m. They argue that we typically don’t move that much in the evening and this causes excess carbs to be stored in our body and turned into fat. Is there anything to this?
Answer. I think the best part of your friends’ advice is to eat lots of fruits and veggies and limit treats. The rest of it doesn’t make a whole lot of much sense. If you consistently eat more calories than you need to fuel your daily activities, you body will store the excess as fat. It doesn’t matter whether the excess calories come from carbohydrates, proteins, or fats. It also doesn’t much matter what time of day you eat them or if you move around after eating them. (Although moving around does burn calories, the calories you’re burning are not from the food you’ve just eaten but calories from previous meals.) Read More »