Importance of eating before sleeping

A hot meal fills the belly bag with radiating heat like sleeping with a hot water bottle.  Esp nice in winter, sucks bad inside a tent during the summer.

Same for me, I find that the nights I do not eat close to bed time I wake up hungry and cold. I usually try and have a hot drink and a snack before bed time.

Load up on protein at dinner time.  It has a higher thermic effect than either carbs or fat.

The word calories comes from a Latin word that means heat.

So “how many calories ?” can be understood as “how much heat “

I guess being a soft and squishy woman has its benefits. Hot flashes help, too.

Diane said “I guess being a soft and squishy woman has its benefits. Hot flashes help, too.”

Haha. That was the one upside I found when I began getting hot flashes…”Well, maybe I won’t freeze at night when I’m backpacking!”

“So “how many calories ?” can be understood as “how much heat “”

Yes.  The question then becomes how much of that heat is generated breaking down the substrate during digestion, and how much is heat generated when the remainder of the substrate is used to produce ATP, or repair muscle damage when the amino acids in protein substrate are used to repair muscle damage.  Thermic effect refers to the former.