Not Eating in the Resturants

[tinkerone]

Understand.

But general medical fact is do not go to bed on a full stomach, let it go down first.

If you eat at 6 pm and go to bed at 10pm then it has four hours to " go down" if you eat 8 pm > 10 pm and go you bed at 10.30pm, It has not had time to digest. It is not good for you.

Now adults may prefer eating late as they go to bed later, fine, if you eat at 8 pm at home fine, but saying a time difference will help you is totally wrong. Now children are far more sensitive, their eating more on a cruise ship, and drinking more pop soda, and we pump them up during the day, their up early doing new things in clubs or the pools, they get over tired.

To give them a meal pre teenager, at 8 pm, when they are likely to be over tired from the day, and eat a full meal or child's meal and then go to bed straight away is asking for trouble, they are over full, the food doesn't digest before sleep and they will be up with an upset tummy overnight, or be sick.

Now if you ask any medical professional they will say let food go down first, they say that breakfast is the most important meal as we burn it off, then lunch as we are awake but they say we get it all wrong by eating our main food in the evening when we do not burn it off it turns more to fat, and lays on your stomach overnight.

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I bet you and everyone here knows the feeling of going to palo dinner over eating and being too full to sleep after however on brunch you can work it off.

In the end the parents should do what they feel best these boards are all just opinions.

http://t.today.com/health/eating-late-night-may-disrupt-learning-memory-2D80504709

http://t.today.com/health/eating-late-night-may-disrupt-learning-memory-2D80504709
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/11/15/dangers-late-night-eating.aspx

http://www.webmd.com/diet/diet-truth-myth-eating-night-causes-weight-gain

http://www.shape.com/healthy-eating/diet-tips/it-okay-eat-past-8-pm

good heavens, you put a bit of thought into this.
I don't think anyone is saying do it for the rest of your life. its vacation. I always let my children do things on vacation that I would never let them do at home. eating late would not be high on my list of things to worry about. drinking to much pop, maybe, but dinning times never.
we cruised a few times with my friend who had at that time two pre-teens. not only did they eat a full course meal for dinner but they always ordered a hamburger and fries before bed and ate that to. I don't think they were actually hungry, just liked the fact they could do it and knew wasting it was not an option. guess what??? no one got ill.
I think its to much ice cream or dessert that actually brings on the 'my tummy hurts' stuff not eating late.
jmo

 

[rosaciri]

We were only able to get the late sitting and I KNOW that will never work for us. My kids like to eat around 5pm and would never last that long. My guess is that we will eat on deck and go to the early show.

My question is, should I tell someone I won't be there each day? Thanks!

I thought the same thing however you will see that when you are on the cruise you will end up eating late anyway due to your activities etc. We were on The Fantasy recently and I have a 8 and 3 yr old who also like to eat at about 5pm. We had breakfast at about 8am, had snacks during the day, had something to eat at about 3 from the pool area and then we were right for dinner at 8pm (second seating). We found the second seating worked for us as we didn't had to rush, miss out on activities and it was a nice way to finish the day - dinner, icecream and a walk around the boat at night. Kids were busy with the pool and kids club and other activities on the boat that it didn't matter too much about dinner being at 8pm. Some days they would still be in the pool at 6pm. You do need to let your waiters know if you are not going to dinner. Once onboard you should be able to change your time - we changed from early to later sitting.

 

[tup1830]

Its interesting to see people generalize things per their family....

If you want early seating, just put yourself on the waitlist and if its not honored by the time you check in, go to the dining meeting place upon boarding.

I've done both early and late and i travel across 10+ hr time zone changes on a monthly basis...all i learned from that is that everyone is different. I've seen people that normally wake up at noon wake up at 8 on a vacation...and people that wake up at 4-5 wake up at 9-10 on vacation...what does that mean? just enjoy yourself and do what you want to do...its your vacation, enjoy!

 

[Eeyorebabies]

We are from California. Last year we went on our cruise, we did several days in the parks first. We did NOT adjust to the time difference. We had early seating on the cruise and we were never hungry. But by 8 pm we were extremely hungry. So in reality, we ended up eating way more than necessary and ended up eating a lot later in the evening because our bodie were used to eating later.

We went to New York for 3 weeks, up with the sun down at a "normal" time. After 3 weeks our kids would not fall asleep before 11pm and they would wake up at 10 am New York time. That's 8 pm and 7 am Pacific time.

If you can adjust after just a couple of days, good for you. Congrats to your super human powers. Here is a trophy...

But just because you can, doesn't mean EVERYONE can.

My kids ate a meal at 8:30-9:30 pm on the cruise every night. Not once did they ever get sick. They went to bed at 10-11 pm every night as well. No upset stomachs. They were 7,7, and 4 years old. They didn't wake up until closer to 9 on the cruise either. Which meant by the time we got dressed and ready for the day, we missed our assigned MDR breakfast time slot.

Medically speaking (I am a medic), if it's not a lifestyle choice and long term, a week on a cruise of late night eating isn't going to destroy your children. It isn't going to lead to obesity problems, memory loss, and bad habits.

It's a vacation, follow what your body tells you, not what some study showed. For every study showing a "confirmed" outcome, there are just as many showing different outcomes.

Show me a study of several families of 5 from CA. Going on a Disney Cruise, eating the exact same foods at the exact same times. The thing is you can't have a good "control" group with those kinds of studies. Too many variables, little control. It's basically a guess as to the outcome.

Not saying that you should go home and eat at 9pm every night for the rest of your life, just saying its a vacation, eating late a few nights isn't going to kill you or set you up for disaster later on.

 

[Denine]

We live in Ohio. We have always had late dining, even on cruises out of CA! We normally eat dinner at 3:30 in the afternoon because our evenings are very busy. Vacation is way different than "normal" life. Our DD has been cruising since she was a toddler. When in the clubs she stayed up until midnight and slept in in the morning. We tried early dining once and hated it. We had to leave early from the fun to go get ready for dinner. I never even tried to keep DD on her at home schedule. We tried naps when she was young and she wasn't having any of it. Good luck getting the dining time you want, but if you don't get it, you may find you like late dining. Just remember to let someone know if you will not be dining in the MDR's.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

We are from California. Last year we went on our cruise, we did several days in the parks first. We did NOT adjust to the time difference. We had early seating on the cruise and we were never hungry. But by 8 pm we were extremely hungry. So in reality, we ended up eating way more than necessary and ended up eating a lot later in the evening because our bodie were used to eating later.

We went to New York for 3 weeks, up with the sun down at a "normal" time. After 3 weeks our kids would not fall asleep before 11pm and they would wake up at 10 am New York time. That's 8 pm and 7 am Pacific time.

If you can adjust after just a couple of days, good for you. Congrats to your super human powers. Here is a trophy...

But just because you can, doesn't mean EVERYONE can.

My kids ate a meal at 8:30-9:30 pm on the cruise every night. Not once did they ever get sick. They went to bed at 10-11 pm every night as well. No upset stomachs. They were 7,7, and 4 years old. They didn't wake up until closer to 9 on the cruise either. Which meant by the time we got dressed and ready for the day, we missed our assigned MDR breakfast time slot.

Medically speaking (I am a medic), if it's not a lifestyle choice and long term, a week on a cruise of late night eating isn't going to destroy your children. It isn't going to lead to obesity problems, memory loss, and bad habits.

It's a vacation, follow what your body tells you, not what some study showed. For every study showing a "confirmed" outcome, there are just as many showing different outcomes.

Show me a study of several families of 5 from CA. Going on a Disney Cruise, eating the exact same foods at the exact same times. The thing is you can't have a good "control" group with those kinds of studies. Too many variables, little control. It's basically a guess as to the outcome.

Not saying that you should go home and eat at 9pm every night for the rest of your life, just saying its a vacation, eating late a few nights isn't going to kill you or set you up for disaster later on.

Can I ask who posted that?

I posted about upset tummy, not sleeping, acid reflux, all as you will know will be highly likely on over eating and eating at unusual times.

Memory loss? Not sure where that's come from, and whilst not posted before actually obesity starts early so actually bad habits can cause it, as any medic will know.

Yes a week may go by without incident but your running risks.

 

[Crystal O_o]

I had late dining on my last cruise because we were traveling with 16 people. It did not work out for my family of 4. My youngest (3 at the time) would fall asleep before dinner arrived to the table EVERY NIGHT. By the time my meal came I would be so exhausted that I wanted to fall asleep. After dinner we would head back to our room to go to bed and several nights I felt so sick laying down on a full stomach. Never again! Our family generally eats around 6pm every night, and that is what works for us.

 

[Footnotegirl]

Agree we are from the UK, taking the time zone advice means we have breakfast at 2 am, lunch at 7 am and Dinner at 1pm.

Food eaten late is not good for children eat then straight to bed it will get pre teenagers ill.

It's a shame to miss MDRS that's the best food on the ship are the premium places if Remy and palo, and you have the Animators shows. Getting on a waitlist often works.

Piffle. Pure, unadulterated piffle.
My 3 year old daughter is and has always been (like her mommy) a 'night person'. She's still a kid of course, so that means she regularly goes to bed at about 9:30 and sleeps regularly until 9 a.m. When we go to Florida for WDW, she does stay shifted for an hour or more for the duration. She frequently eats dinner less than an hour before going to bed and it has never once made her ill nor is there any biological reason why that would be the case. Eating before either naps or bed will not get a child ill any more than stepping on a crack will break their mothers back.
There's no reason why, if it works for the OP on the ship, she shouldn't just let her kids stay a little time shifted (get up late, eat breakfast and lunch late, eat dinner late, go to bed late). Obviously if one were from the other side of the world, you'd want to shift that jet lag so that these things were all happening at reasonable hours, but shifting dinner and bed time by 2 hours (so actually having them a little bit earlier than they normally would) is totally doable if she has to do it.
Though I agree on the bit about how there's a high likelihood of them getting switched to early seating.

 

[Ofinn]

All I can say is I have been eating dinner after 8pm my whole life and so have my kids. We have no health issues, and none of us are overweight. Don't most Europeans eat late? I thought Americans were the only ones that ate at 6pm? It really doesn't matter when you eat, but what you eat and how much exercise you get. If some people want to think they are improving their health by eating early so be it. As a health care worker I have heard wackier things than that. Do whatever makes you feel better about youself, but I don't think there's any scientific evidence to back it up. A calorie is a calorie no mater when you eat it.

 

[MUN]

We were only able to get the late sitting and I KNOW that will never work for us. My kids like to eat around 5pm and would never last that long. My guess is that we will eat on deck and go to the early show.

My question is, should I tell someone I won't be there each day? Thanks!

I would try to change to early seating, but if you can't you and your kids should be able to adjust to eating later in the day.

Enjoy your cruise!

MUN

PS, to answer your question, yes, if you decide to not eat in the MDRs, you should tell guest services.

 

[Eeyorebabies]

Haha, one week on a cruise, eating late for one week, is not going to lead to childhood obesity.
A calorie is a calorie. Doesn't really matter what time of day you eat it. It's absorbed the same either way. While yes, eating just before bed can cause acid reflux, it doesn't mean that it will and that people are spreading "terrible myths" about eating when they feel it's appropriate based on what their internal clock says.
My kids never over eat. Heck, they aren't even on the growth charts because they are so tiny. They eat enough to feel full, but that isn't very much. Keep in mind, the kids clubs aren't exactly laying down, so if you have late seating and then send your kid off, they have games, they run around from place to place, they end up working through a bunch of the food anyway.
Don't be so quick to put everyone in a box saying this is the way to do it and everyone else is spreading lies.

 

[Bree]

As someone who is constantly studying about nutrition and fitness (as it will someday be my job to know these things!!!!) I have to agree with what Ofinn posted. If you have no ill side effects it does not matter when you consume your calories. I can post umpteen peer reviewed (not some random Google search) articles, but unless it interests you it is probably some really dry reading. Your body doesn't need time for "food to go down" nor does it say "Ermahgerd!!!! It's 8pm! Time to stop digesting!". Your body is a machine that runs 24 hours a day. I blame the crappy "kid" food served all over the ship and overstimulation for tummy aches more than the time it is consumed.

 

[Ofinn]

Can I ask who posted that?

I posted about upset tummy, not sleeping, acid reflux, all as you will know will be highly likely on over eating and eating at unusual times.

Memory loss? Not sure where that's come from, and whilst not posted before actually obesity starts early so actually bad habits can cause it, as any medic will know.

Yes a week may go by without incident but your running risks.

One of the reasons we eat late is because we run work out at the gym in the early evening and the kids play sports. Should we skip the exercise to eat at 6. I think not. Not everyone in the world's life is going to fit into what you(the self proclaimed expert) perceive as the perfect eating schedule. We are all different. Really is no right or wrong answer to this.