Cereal before bed?

[hungry4uni]

I'm just curious. We've had a tradition in my family well before I was born, where everybody in my house has a bowl of cereal before bed. I cannot sleep without, probably because I've never gone without it. Does anyone else do this?:p

[anton005]

Well it happens in our house a fair amount, not every night though. I definitely sleep better when I have a snack before bed.

[johnfoss]

I go for the bowl of cereal after bed. If I've gotten up early enough... :cool:

[Jerrick]

I like some snacks before bed. Usually its not cereal, either a bowl of rice, or mashed potatoes, or a few baked potatoes. Right now im cooking some fish, then im going to bed.

[humblbee]

Every night without fail. usually cherrios, raisin bran, some sort of kashi brand whole grain sort, or a mix of some or all of these.

[Mikefule]

Someone I knew was found dead in bed, choked on a Shredded Wheat."
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The police are looking for a cereal killer.

[maestro8]

Eating carbohydrates before going to sleep is a sure way to gain weight. Carbohydrates give the body energy, but one doesn't need much energy to sleep, so the body stores it as fat instead.

Going to sleep hungry might lead to a bad night's rest.

How do you find the happy medium? Eat a healthy dinner (low on carbs) a few hours before bed. Going to bed later? Eat dinner later. Simple.

Make sure to eat your veggies...

[Mikefule]

How do you find the happy medium?

At a particularly cheerful seance.

[maestro8]

At a particularly cheerful seance.

Yet again, Mikefule comes through with a groan-worthy reply out of left field.

Thanks!

[petad]

I eat cereal a lot. I've never gone a day without breakfast of some kind (which almost always is cereal) and then I'll have a bowl as an after-school snack, and sometimes another bowl before bed. Honey Bunches of Oats, Life, and Grape Nut Flakes are some favorites. :)

[hungry4uni]

Haha, I'm not exactly busting my gut Maestro. haha.:D

[Wheel Rider]

I remember hearing there is something in milk that makes people sleepy and/or sleep better. The old story about giving gramps a glass of warm milk before bedtime has some value to it.

It is almost time for my glass of milk.

[Doug]

I'm another who does bed before cereal. My bowl of choice is muesli with home brewed kefir.

[dan de man]

Someone I knew was found dead in bed, choked on a Shredded Wheat."
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The police are looking for a cereal killer.

one of my friends drowned in a bowl of muesli
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. He was pulled in by a strong currant

[Hazmat]

I normally have cereal before i go to bed. It has a weird effect on my mind, come the next morning. :p

[humblbee]

Eating carbohydrates before going to sleep is a sure way to gain weight. Carbohydrates give the body energy, but one doesn't need much energy to sleep, so the body stores it as fat instead.

Going to sleep hungry might lead to a bad night's rest.

How do you find the happy medium? Eat a healthy dinner (low on carbs) a few hours before bed. Going to bed later? Eat dinner later. Simple.

Make sure to eat your veggies...

Thanks, now I'm having cereal, going to bed, and dreaming of being fat and jiggly, running after the guy who stole my uni with my wiggling man boobs and belly, and then just giving up, thinking, "unicycling is to much work anyway:(, oh well."

[Mikefule]

one of my friends drowned in a bowl of muesli
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The dangers of muesli. You may laugh but there's a grain of truth in it...

[Michaelgoround]

I prefer bed before cereal.

[SpaceFmK]

I ate a bowl of cereal once...

But i usually eat before bed. Not cereal though.. But In fact I eat all day long. I dont get fatter, but i dont get skinnier. Strange

Imagine if we didnt have to sleep though... Think of all the things we could get done. You could eat cereal whenever you wanted. What do you think they would call the other meal or even meals you would have to eat to compensate for your extra 8 hours of lifetime. Ah how nice things would be.

[Doug]

thanx for the cereal humor

you've bowled me over

[MuniAddict]

Hey Mikey! :D

YouTube- Life cereal: Mikey likes it!

YouTube- 70s *Count Chocula* Cereal Commercial

YouTube- Early Cap'n Crunch Commercial

[dumbkat]

cocoa pebbles all the way.

[surfer1024]

Peanut. Butter. Captain. Crunch. ftw...

[justtysen]

Eating carbohydrates before going to sleep is a sure way to gain weight. Carbohydrates give the body energy, but one doesn't need much energy to sleep, so the body stores it as fat instead.

More likely to gain weight, but the particular calorie consumption/expenditure ratio still trumps all.

[MuniAddict]

A calorie is a calorie, although some are more nutritious than others. The idea is simple; eat less than your daily caloric requirement, and you lose weight, eat more and you gain weight. Let's say your body requires 2,000 per day. If you eat only 1,500 per day, you will lose 52 pounds of weight in one year. If you decide to eat the remaining 500 calories at 12 midnight and then go to bed, you will NOT gain weight. You are simply satisfying your caloric requirement for that day.

The same goes for if you didn't eat anything all day, and then decided to eat all your calories for that day in one sitting at, say, 10pm. Not a good eating habit, but you would simply be giving your body it's daily caloric requirement...all at once. You would feel stuffed and bloated for a while, but you would not gain any more weight than if you broke the meals up throughout the day.

But if you have already met your daily caloric needs for a particular day, *then* have a 300 calorie meal of cereal before bed...or whenever, you will gain weight; and if done every day/night, that adds up to about 2.5 pounds of fat per month, or 30 extra pounds per year! Of course, if you Uni a lot you'll probably burn it off! :)

[Catboy]

I was in the bad habit of a bowl of ice cream before bed. Often, I would take it into bed and eat it before sleep to some tele. After waking up so many nights covered in white creamy stuff and having to clean myself and my bed of the late night mess, I have learned better than to put myself in that sticky sort of situation. Falling asleep with a bowl of ice cream on your chest is a no-no.

Feel free to sig me^

[justtysen]

A calorie is a calorie

The arguments for eating particular foods or at particular times have to do with how doing so alters the body's metabolism, hence changing calorie consumption.

Less assuredly, such changes may also alter a person's energy levels, changing their level of activity AKA volitional calorie consumption.

But I generally agree with you.

[maestro8]

you would not gain any more weight than if you broke the meals up throughout the day
Have you any citations that back up your assertion?

The "calorie is a calorie" approximation may work when performing an experiment in a chemistry lab, but the human body is an incredibly complex machine. If everyone's body worked so simply, would there still be an entire industry devoted to weight loss?

[Rowan]

If everyone's body worked so simply, would there still be an entire industry devoted to weight loss?Because there is still a massive horde of lazy people not willing to connect the dots between their own diet and lack of exercise so they look to others for advice even though they know what needs to be done. Cycle advocacy is a good preventative for obesity. Corporations selling petrol and food to fat rich people is not helping- there needs to be more balance!

[Alden]

cheerios every night before bed.

[justtysen]

Because there is still a massive horde of lazy people not willing to connect the dots between their own diet and lack of exercise so they look to others for advice even though they know what needs to be done. Cycle advocacy is a good preventative for obesity. Corporations selling petrol and food to fat rich people is not helping- there needs to be more balance!

For increasing life expectancy eating less is more important than exercising more, and in my weak opinion the increase in obesity is due more to changes in food production and consumption than changes in physical activity.

Also, I believe that, at least in the US, higher income people are less likely to be overweight.

[MuniAddict]

For increasing life expectancy eating less is more important than exercising more, and in my weak opinion the increase in obesity is due more to changes in food production and consumption than changes in physical activity.

Also, I believe that, at least in the US, higher income people are less likely to be overweight.Of course, there are plenty of exceptions...here's just 50 well known celebs:
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