about the time to eat question, sorry ladies but you are both wrong, it doesn't matter what time you eat as it depends on the amout of calories you consume within a 24 hour period, if your daily maintenence level was say 1500 kcal's and if you ate 1400 just before you went to bed you'd loose weight, if that was all you'd eaten within a 24 hour period, it takes about 2 days for the body to process our food and store it as fat, so again it doesn't matter what time you eat so long as you dont excced your daily calorie amount, yes the body does slow down when we sleep, but the calories are ready to be used the next day you just have to subtract those calories from the next days allowance or use them up, also drinking excess water wont make you loose weight if your exceeding your calorie amount, but it can help suppress the appetite as feelings of thirst are often mistaken for feelings of hunger, and if you drink it ice cold then the body uses calories to heat it up, hope this helps.