@drdoombot I half disagree with you. Sugars/Carbs are stored as glycogen, once the stores are full then the sugars get stored as fat. It’s not really a matter of time of day. The same is for protein, they are stored in the form of amino acids, utilized during activity, or stored as fat, and fat goes to fat if you are not using it. So if you have not eaten all day or if you just did a 5 mile run, your stores might be depleted, no matter what time of day. The problem is people over eat and eat fatty foods, and are more likely to overeat if they have not been eating regularly throughout the day and feel starved. I’m a size 6 (sometimes I drift up to an 8), 5’6,” 136 pounds age 41. I do wish I was thinner, but I eat sometimes out of boredom I think.
Also, when they look at the habits of thin people they generally eat breakfast, I think that is because they have not eaten a lot of calories late at night, and they are thin, so they don’t have fat storage to pull from. But, thin people eat much fewer calories than heavy people, unless they are very athletic. I think late night eating adds on pounds for the most people because it is on top of a full days calories and it is many times mindless in front of the tv noshing on bad stuff.