Trying To Lose A Little Weight

[andy-hughes]

At 65, losing weight is not as easy as it was, so I will take any advice.

I like to eat a snack just before I go to bed, usually a bowl of cereal with sugar on, sometimes a small sandwich or a chocolate bar, or a couple of biscuits, always with a large mug of sugary tea.

I wonder if eating and then going to bed increases the chances of my snack turning to fat as I sleep.

If I dropped this habit, might it assist my weight loss?

[Samuraisan]

I'd cut out the chocolate, biscuits and sugar. If you calculate how many calories that alone has, you will get a shock. If you want a snack, go for fruit, although maybe trying to cut out the evening snack altogether might be best. I also, in my my 60s, want to lose a bit of Lockdown weight so am doing as above. It's slow, but easier than a drastic diet and it works.

[ToraToraTora]

andy, eating before bed isn't good but 1000 times worse is all the sugar, dead calories. I'd say dropping the snack before bed alone would create a calorie deficiency. looks like you are having 500cals before bed each day, in a week that's a pound of fat alone.

[GenuineclAss]

pps Don't lose it too quickly. Please lose up to 3lb per week unless you really are morbidly obese - then you should see a specialist anyway. Losing more than 3lb per week will starve your brain of fats and sugars which will cause cravings. This is how people's weight starts to yo-yo, which is very unhealthy.

[TonyV]

Andy as well limiting your food intake, are you able to go for a daily walk?

[TheWarrior]

Cereal combined with sugar is consuming too many carbs at bedtime. If you eat hard boiled eggs with some lettuce or celery, tomato, you would not be in a position of storing the starch and sugar which gets converted to fat. You would be eating protein with good carbs rather than starch. You may want to look into intermittent fasting on Youtube which gets the body to burn more fat for fuel rather that fat storage and you eat at certain times of the day. Good Luck from America!