Eating late in the night

[GhostFighter]

If ur planning to sleep very late eg 4am would a meal at middnight still be fattening?

[DWx]

I wouldn't think so on the principle that you are just shifting your natural habits. The reason why a late meal is fattening is because you body doesn't burn the energy its gained before you go to sleep.

[bushido_man96]

I have read before that a calorie is a calorie, no matter when it is consumed.

If you eat and then sleep for 8 hours, your body processes do slow down. I don't know if that just means you digest slower then, or what. I don't know for sure, though.

My last meal is almost always breakfast, and then I go home to sleep about an hour after eating. I have not noticed any weight gains.

[TheRenegade]

I have read before that a calorie is a calorie, no matter when it is consumed.

That's not true.

Anyway, eating 4 hours before sleeping is not bad, rather, I'd be concerned about someone who doesn't eat for more than four hours before sleeping.