Eating late is part of the problem when it comes to weight loss (or the lack of it). I'd try to avoid that as much as possible. My eldest son who is 22 gained about 25 pounds that way because he lives like a vampire when he's at school. He was eating way too much in the middle of the night because his body clock was offset by about 12 hours.

He was told that because his metabolic rate decreases at night, he was eating too much at the wrong time of day.