Room temperature water and dinner by 8pm!

[bananabender]

Hey everyone - I have a few questions and was wondering if anyone could help me out: :)

- Why is it so important to drink 'room temperature' water? I seem to crave cold water sometimes, especially when I first wake up, like to drink at least half a bottle straight out of the fridge! Is that ok? And a few sips of cold water throughout the day?

- Also I can't seem to ever get dinner in by 6pm, it's always 8/8.30pm, but I try to leave 4 hours between bed and dinner - which also kind of goes against the other rule of bed by 12. Is anyone else in the same situation? I never get home till 7pm most nights, and by the time dinner is ready, it is 8pm.

Thanks for your help! :o

[bethydomin]

I think the room temp water has to do with not interacting with enzymes in the bananas. I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter for the rest of the day.

I wouldn't worry too much about the time you eat dinner, they say no later than 8, so you're a-ok! I mean, you can only do so much right? I think the most important thing is to not binge before bed really.

[topbanana]

I think the Japanese promoters of the diet felt that cold water cause some sort of digestive stress or extra work that was not conducive to the diet. But they have a lot of odd ideas that may or may not really make a difference. If you're trying a variation of the diet, by all means keep us in the loop so we can hear if it worked or not.

[Kareennn]

Does anybody know if it's really important not to eat anything after 8 PM? I mean, I get up later because I work until very late and get hungry late at night. I would stop eating earlier, but then I will be too hungry to be able to sleep. Any ideas on dealing with that?

[Mango]

Does anybody know if it's really important not to eat anything after 8 PM? I mean, I get up later because I work until very late and get hungry late at night. I would stop eating earlier, but then I will be too hungry to be able to sleep. Any ideas on dealing with that?

A computer programmer who's trying the diet wakes up late and works late, and he proposed to shift the whole schedule later for people like him, keeping the same time intervals between things, but making them later. I don't know if it's working for him or not.

But on the other hand, a major tactic of the diet is to get your life under control and discipline yourself to have regular habits, on the theory that being out of control in other areas of your life translates to your eating behavior. And I really wonder if people like the programmer aren't keeping irregular hours because they are fundamentally undisciplined? If there's a particular reason to wake up late and go to bed late, such as a shift job, then that's one thing. But I don't see a reason why a programmer can't do his job during daylight hours. So his oddball schedule just looks like a life out of control to me.

At any rate, if you adjust the diet for your hours, let us know how it worked.

[sweetloner]

Does anybody know if it's really important not to eat anything after 8 PM? I mean, I get up later because I work until very late and get hungry late at night. I would stop eating earlier, but then I will be too hungry to be able to sleep. Any ideas on dealing with that?

Hi, just started this diet today. I believe, the idea of not eating after 8pm or 6pm is to allow your body to digest whatever you ate during the whole day. This diet is like the book I read before - fit for life. They telling the reader to eat fresh fruit in empty stomach especially in the morning. If you get hungry in the middle of the night try to just drink water but if you are really hungry like hearing your stomach growling (like me sometime) eat fruits. Good luck.

[Mango]

Yes, I think sweetloner is right. A good night's sleep is important, and not having food in your stomach in the beginning stages of digestion helps you sleep better -- so goes the theory.

[ix__]

If you have food in your stomach when you sleep, your metabolism is slow anyway, so the energy produced by digestion needs to be stored. Which your body does by converting it to fat.


When you wake up, your body needs some energy. It will burn fat for it, if it gets none. Go too long on that trail, and you'll engage the starvation response. So some fruit a bit into the morning, staves that off. Gives some calories from natural sugar, for the energy your body needs, but not so fast as processed sugar that must immediately be stored as fat. The fibre gives some slower energy as the sugars burn off.

Eat well for supper, go to bed slightly hungry, eat fruit for breakfast, that's 3/4 of the battle.