nightly cravings...augh..

Cereal = bad before bed. If you need food before bed - protein is best. It will help your hormones and the fat breakdown that takes place while you sleep. Also, I have learned when my enzymes are really at work my belly makes hungry sounds and I feel like I need food which happens most often at bedtime. After a year of training - I either go to bed after drinking a glass of water or if I know I really need food then I find some great protein to help.

Once I'm in bed, then it's time to sleep. In my whole life, I don't think I have ever eaten anything once I have went to bed for the night. My pillow is my friend.

Make sure you are hitting your calorie goal each day with nutritious foods. And don't eat if you aren't hungry.

I try to eat dinner really late, between 8-9pm. And I always have a snack before bed. Usually something with volume like an English muffin with pb and something I just want, like a couple cookies. Of course I make sure through the day I manage my calories to do that. Some people would probably slam me for eating late and having ....OMG..... sugar but you have to do what works for you.

I get headaches in the night, too - always have - and one of the ways I've helped soothe that over the years is by snacking on sweets in the middle of the night. I'm trying to not do that, too. It's hard.

You're not alone in this!

Sounds like your blood sugar is getting too low. You might try a snack before bedtime to see if that helps. See my post above about my diabetic husband

I know my body and I know I tend to get the munchies around bedtime so I allow it, as long as it's healthy. I plan on having a stalk of celery with a tablespoon of peanut butter or a laughing cow wedge of cheese. The crunchy texture of the celery takes me a little while to eat, and I have water at my bedside table. After that, I get out of the kitchen. I'm a lazy person by nature so in order to get anything else to eat, I'd have to go all the way back into the kitchen. Nine times out of ten I'm not hungry enough to do it. While you're saving back calories for your nightly nosh, try planning in advance what the snack will be and go ahead and log it in. That way you'll see in black and white what the numbers are and if you set the food aside, you'll see how much you're eating. Hope this helps.