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Does Eating Carbs in the Evening Affect Body Composition?

Should you taper down carbohydrate intake as the day goes, or else you will gain fat or hinder fat loss?

Egis R. | Fitness Trainer (CSCS)
4 min readFeb 24, 2025
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Anyone who hasn’t been asleep in the last decade or two has seen assloads of people saying ‘Yo, eating carbs in the evening is about as horrible as it’s possible to imagine, you can be near damn sure you will gain weight.’

Others with knowledge gleaned solely from the KetoKetoYayYayYay website mention something about not eating bananas past 6 pm because they read something about slower metabolism and insulin shifting carbs straight to fat storage.

Should you really taper down carbohydrate intake as the day goes, or else you will gain fat or hinder fat loss? No need to google incredibly useless low-carb worshiping websites because a recent study investigated exactly that:

Evaluating the evening carbohydrate dilemma: the effect of within-the-day carbohydrate periodization on body composition and physical fitness
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Not only did the researchers look at the effect of within-the-day carb timing on body composition but also their type — low vs. high glycemic index (GI). But wait, there’s more. Calories were similar in all three groups.

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Egis R. | Fitness Trainer (CSCS)
Egis R. | Fitness Trainer (CSCS)

Written by Egis R. | Fitness Trainer (CSCS)

I’m Egis, an online weight loss coach who has heightened BS sensors for fitness & nutrition. Only evidence-based & sustainable fat loss. www.absscience.com

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