When can I eat something that won't get fat when I work the night shift?

More weight loss information tells us that if you don't want to get fat, don't eat too much at night, especially after midnight snack. However, a recent study by the US Department of Agriculture found that there is no absolute relationship between when to eat more food and weight gain or loss.

The researchers divided a group of overweight women into two groups. One group ate 70% of the daily calories before noon, and the other group ate it near dinner time. The result did not affect their body fat rate. Experts believe that weight gain is mainly due to intake of more calories than consumption. Therefore, the most important thing to maintain a healthy weight is to control the total calorie intake every day.

For office workers, most of them come home from work by sitting on the sofa or doing some static activities, which consumes little heat. Compared with the amount of activity during the day, nutrition experts believe that after eating a hearty dinner, don't eat midnight snack. Snacks eaten while watching TV at midnight or at night are often extra calories. If you eat them, you will definitely gain weight. Especially after dinner, it is even worse to fall asleep.

If you must eat midnight snack to fall asleep, you'd better eat it two hours before going to bed, and avoid high-fat foods, such as instant noodles, biscuits, fried dough sticks and shortcakes. Greasy food will slow down digestion and delay gastric emptying time, so some people will not sleep well at night, and even affect their appetite the next morning, making the most important breakfast impossible to eat. The calorie of midnight snack should be controlled at about 200 kilocalories. A better choice is a cup of low-fat milk with 2 ~ 3 soda biscuits, light noodle soup or salty porridge, oatmeal, red bean soup and mung bean soup.