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1) I beleive eating before bed effects your gut/6 pack. People with a gut should go to bed on a slightly empty stomach. People who want a 6 pack should go to bed on a slightly empty stomach. If you go to bed with heavy food in your stomach, your body has to process that food and it can not clean out the excess fat around the belly. If you go to bed on an empty stomach, you will get hungry around 3am, but, you will be sleeping, your body will start to eat the excess fat around your belly.
Your body only 'cleans out' the excess fat around your belly if you are in a caloric deficit. Some people look leaner in the morning if they don't eat at night, so you that could be why you think eating at night makes you fat.
This study even says that eating a high carb meal before bed actually increases fat loss: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475137
About spot reducing fat... It is impossible.
Your body loses fat all over. Women usually store it in their butt, thighs, etc and for guys its around their belly. You cannot choose where the fat comes off first. Belly fat often comes off last AND if you happen to eat over your daily needs for a prolonged period of time, your belly is often the first place that fat goes to. Again, this changes per person. Some people have a 6 pack but their upper back is fat, or their arms and so on.
You might be confusing bloating with fat gain as well. Eating pizza one night will not make your belly gain fat. The sodium might make you look fatter, however. But that goes away within 1-2 days.