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I'm no expert on the matter, but something that happens to me during the winter is that I end up exercising on the trainer at the very end of the day, maybe an hour starting at 10:30 PM or something like that. Then I'm up for a while (shower, read, etc.) and to sleep. This may be a mechanism to reduce metabolic compensation, as the resting comes at essentially the same time it would otherwise and then I start fresh the next day. On the other hand, I don't think we understand metabolic compensation enough to say that it really works that way. It could be that the metabolism (and, I guess, body temperature) is suppressed over longer periods of time.