There's some logic to it. If you eat right before you go to bed, your body is going to burn what you've just eaten for energy. However, if you go to bed hungry, your body has no choice but to burn fat stores for energy (and besides, who cares if you're hungry when you go to bed, you're asleep!). In that sense, eating late at night can cause more of what you eat to be stored and less of what's stored to be burned.
Sorry but the body doesn't burn just-eaten food that quickly. If you eat at 2pm instead of 11pm you're still going to be burning those calories when you go to bed at night. Ask any serious runner and they'll tell you that they do their carbo-loading the night before a race and that all those carbs still make a huge difference 12+ hours after consumption.
Unless you somehow burned through all your carb stores before bed you're not going to be burning much fat while you sleep. Plus sleeping itself burns very few calories so don't expect to be melting away pounds by sleeping.
and besides, who cares if you're hungry when you go to bed, you're asleep!
I think you hit on the biggest reason why this so-called diet works. People don't notice their hunger when they're asleep and thus less likely to cheat.
Sorry but the body doesn't burn just-eaten food that quickly.
> Reference please? Are you sure? :)
Unless you somehow burned through all your carb stores before bed you're not going to be burning much fat while you sleep.
> Explain ketone levels increase in the morning regardless of nightly meal composition
Plus sleeping itself burns very few calories so don't expect to be melting away pounds by sleeping.
> Exercise causing EPOC can be used in conjunction to reduce energy efficiency, increase energy loss as heat etc etc. You can alter BMR/RMR if you try.
