I don’t know about you, as I get older, my dinner hour keeps getting a little earlier. Can anyone relate?
In reality, that’s not a bad thing. You know, that old advice to stop eating a few hours before bedtime exists for a good reason:
Late night snacking may disrupt your sleep, add to weight gain, and increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes.
Late night eating can have these consequences:
- Bigger Blood Sugar Spikes (which leads to a host of health problems)
- Altered Fat Metabolism (it encourages fat storage)
- Lower post-meal metabolic rate (you don’t burn calories as efficiently)
- Great hunger (even though food intake was the same when compared with those who ate at an earlier hour)
- Difficulty in losing weight
It’s not always easy, but with a little planning, you can have your dinner and your evening walk too!
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