Fell off the diet wagon last summer and was floundering around gaining most of the weight that I had lost back. I stopped posting and viewing this website. Well earlier this month I had an idea and it was partly from something I read on this site. I would try to stop eating approximatly 6 hours before going to bed. I had read on this site somewhere that if you don't eat for 14 hours a day you will always be skinny. So far even though I fall short of the 14 hours some days, it seems to be working.

I asked my doctor that question. Her reply was that it's an old wives' tale - it's not when you eat but what you eat. She also said that going that many hours with not eating lowers your blood sugar too low and the best thing is to eat small meals several times a day. I realize that's not always possible but I have been following her advice as much as I can since May and I've lost 77 pounds and I'm never hungry.

Well I understand that if you are on a 1000 calorie a day diet it probably wouldn't matter when you ate those 1000 calories. You would probably lose at a consistent rate wether you ate just after gettig up or just before going to bed. Now if you simply restricted an obese person from eating at night he might naturaly consome less calories per day. Many overweight people suffer from binge eating and I'm willing to bet most binge eating happens at night. At least in my case it did. I go to bed hungry but I'm starting to get use to it.

if you're burning more calories than you're consuming it doesn't matter what time of day you eat.

1000 calories a day is too low for anyone.