Any tips for late night munchies?

sugarless gum. and I weigh every morning now. That keeps me on track!

I eat banana,, drink milk or drink casein protein

I only recently started and what's worked for me is sugarfree gum/lifesavers mints and a bunch more water

Try keeping some of your dinner for later...and drink lots of water.

Sugar snap peas are great, low in calories, crunchy, sweet. Carrots, jicama, celery with peanut butter or cream cheese and grape tomatoes, cucumbers are nominal in calories too. Try popcorn made on the stove with cocoanut oil (you won't need butter) and sprinkle with your favorite seasoning or make your own.

I had struggled with this for a long time as well.

It turns out, some new studies are indicating that a lot of people make poorer food choices later at night. People that stay up past 10 PM regularly eat an average of 300 to 400 more calories than their early-to-bed peers.

Also, eating right before bed can cause many people to have greater difficulty falling and staying asleep. Eating foods that raise your blood sugar will cause your insulin levels to raise after bedtime. When the insulin kicks the sugar out of your blood stream, this can cause you to wake up an hour or two later feeling wide awake / alert.

About a month ago I came to the boards looking for suggestions about how to avoid late night snacking / binging. A lot of unhelpful people told me it basically came down to willpower and that I just shouldn't do it. Others told me it didn't matter what time of the day I ate my calories. Both of these pieces of advice were unhelpful. I've found that reading books, watching documentaries, and reading up on health articles has given me a lot of useful insights about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

That is all preface stuff. Here is my suggestion: set a cutoff time for the evening. A time that you will eat all of your calories by and fast for that time afterwards. My cutoff time is 7 PM. If I absolutely must eat a meal that I missed I will eat during the 7 o'clock hour. Otherwise, I eat supper before 7 PM, and nothing after 7 PM.

It has become a habit in the last 2 weeks to do this. This, for me, has completely eliminated late night snacking. I have screwed up many a week by going over calories and over program late at night. Now I'm sleeping better and have built this habit up so that it is no longer a challenge to do this.

If you eat in the middle of night regularly, you will get to a point where your body will naturally wake up at the appointed hour because your body begins to "expect" a meal at that time. This is a very destructive cycle to get started. It eventually gets broken by just insisting on staying in bed and not resorting to eating. For me, trouble sleeping could always be fixed late at night by eating a bunch of food. This would always help me fall asleep if I couldn't fall asleep after bedtime. But now, I fall asleep within 20 minutes of going to bed, and I never get up to eat in the middle of the night anymore.

I'm a person who has struggled to fall asleep my whole life. Only during a couple periods of my life was falling asleep easy: mainly when I was in cross country and track in high school. Most my life, I recall it taking about an hour about every night to fall asleep after going to bed. It has been miserable. I have always been envious of my girlfriends who can fall asleep within 5 minutes of going to bed. That has never been me. But now, with a fast after 7 PM, I am sleeping easier and getting more restful sleep.

New evidence is emerging that suggests that not eating for 2 to 3 hours before you go to bed is probably a better way for you to prime your body for sleep. It isn't necessarily about weightloss in this case, it's about letting your body know that you are preparing for sleep. Technically, the time of day you consume calories doesn't really matter. But for many of us, eating our calories late at night actually means that we will make poorer food choices--often reaching for comfort foods and maybe eating too much of them.

I hope this helps. If you fail at any given time, just starting over the next day is always key!

I am going to give this a try Thanks!

Maybe start a new ritual of brewing yourself a nice cup of organic herbal tea? ( i know it sounds real grandmotherish but it's good, it takes a while to drink in small sips and it has 0 calories )

Eat dinner later.

Eat more vegetables.