Let’s now talk about a bogeyman that scares dieters everywhere: late-night eating. Somehow, many people believe that eating too much food later in the day will accelerate fat storage, so they avoid it all costs, preferring to go hungry for hours on end over shifting meals around to better suit their hunger patterns. Well, as you now know, fat loss and gain depend wholly on energy balance and have nothing to do with meal timing. This means you get to eat as late as you want. This isn’t just theory, either—it’s been proven in multiple scientific studies.
