More About Eating at Night

I am Steve Turano, welcome to this episode of Body Performance. People are still worried about eating at night. So let me see if I can share some additional light on this. When you get up in the morning, you have breakfast and then you go to the office and you sit there for four hours. You might work on the computer, answer some phones and send your friends some porn, then you go to lunch, then you come back, answer phones, work in the computer and look at the internet porn your friend sent you.

Not much difference between that having dinner, sitting around for two hours and then going to bed. You got to remember this. When you eat a meal, it does not automatically get converted to fat and land on your hips. The food has to be digested that takes time depending on how much you ate and what you ate. Then once the food is digested it needs to be broken down further into cellular and molecular units. This is the form that the body can use as energy.

Now you also have to remember this. That your body is constantly taking inventory of calories in and calories out, it does not just happen when you eat. The reason why it has to do this, it has to keep track of all the food coming in and its energy source, because the metabolic processes that are occurring in your body are happening twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. This is what we usually call the metabolism.

So while your brain is working and your heart is pumping, your lungs are sucking in oxygen and cells are being made and destroy. Those things are consuming calories, and your body has to keep an eye on how much energy it has. So it is not one meal that makes you fat. It is not what ate yesterday. But it is what you ate yesterday, last week, and last month. And also what you did yesterday, last week and last month, and it is going to be what you eat tomorrow, what you eat next week and next month and what you do next week and next month, that will determine whether you will gain weight or lose weight. It is not one meal. Our body is not like the scales of justice. They do not sway that easily. Love your body. I will see you next time.


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