Originally Posted by
Tricerafi
(I hope this is the right board for this, if not please move to the appropriate board, thanks in advance)
Well, people often say that you'll get fat if you sleep after you eat. Is that true?
Are the positions of sleep influence of the fat increase? I mean maybe like if you sleep in sitting position has lower fat increase than when you sleep in lay position.
And what the cause of it?
Hi, this is what I primarily study.
To answer your question: no, absolutely not. Nutritional timing pays such little regard into the overall human body composition that unless your job is to be an IFBB Pro, you'll never need to worry about it. Furthermore, no position of sleep has ANY impact on body composition.
There's this dumb notion that you "shouldn't eat carbs after 6PM", this is silly. The idea is that you'll be consuming your calories, but you won't be burning them. This is because you burn less calories whilst asleep than whilst awake. What they fail to consider is the amount of hours you're awake and not eating. Overall, using the Harris Benedict formula, you can find approximately how much energy expenditure you can expect in a day. Eating under that amount of food in kilocalories will make you lose weight. Eating over that amount will make you gain weight. There's 3500 kcals (roughly) in a pound. If you eat at a 500 kcal surplus a day, you can expect to gain roughly 1 pound a week.
Hope I helped. Bottom line: no. No you will not get fat because you sleep a certain way, nor eat right before you sleep.
Last edited by Bodhisattva; Jan 19, 2014 at 09:41 AM.