We've all experienced this—eating at night can bring about all kinds of unwanted side effects. But besides causing indigestion and insomnia, late-night snacking can adversely affect your weight loss efforts, too.A new study from Ulster University in Northern Ireland has shown that eating more in the evening, rather than during the day, is linked to consuming more calories overall, and eating less nutritious foods.
Although late-night eaters actually consumed fewer total carbohydrates and sugar than those who ate more during the course of the day, they were more likely to eat more junk food, fatty foods, consume alcohol, and eat fewer nutrient-rich foods, and those bad habits outweighed the lower carb intake. So it's not necessarily the fact that you're eating late at night that's causing you to pack on the pounds, it's the diet choices you tend to make late at night, when relaxing on the couch with your favorite snack and a glass of wine, that are really doing you in.