slow evening metabolism?

Question
William
I am following your advice and seeing slow but steady weight loss eating low glycemic.
I have noticed something else and would like your opinion.
I used to come home from work on the night shift hungry but not starving. I would have some whole wheat toast before bed.
Some say your metabolism slows down at night so food-especially carbs, will be stored as fat if eaten before bed because they arent burnt off, so I switched to fruit and cottage cheese and felt a bit thinner next morning, lost one pound over a week.
I took it to the next step and ate nothing before bed-still same total calories over the day, and I lost two pound over a week.
What do you think?

Answer
Hi

Glad to see you are making progress. 1-2 pounds fat loss per week is the ideal range for long-term weight loss.

Interesting information you've provided, and in line with mainstream thoughts on low glycemic dieting.

Eating toast - or any carbohydrate rich food - alone (without a good dose of protein) is not advisable at any time of day.

The fruit with cottage cheese combo is a better option for sure.

But, if you can get by with no late evening snack at all so much the better.  Some can, some can't.  It may also vary on how active you are that particular day as to whether you might need an evening snack to carry you through till morning without being too hungry.

Whatever you do, try to stick with one of the <a href="http://www.low-glycemic-foods.org/best-carbs.html>"best carbohydrate choices"</a> for your carbohydrate energy needs - toast is too processed and has too high a glycemic index to make a good snack for low glycemic dieters.

Please keep me posted.

Regards
Bill  

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