Stop absorbing so much light!

But, isn't opening and closing the refrigerator door exercising?

You just know we will soon be seeing fridge doors that open at the touch of a button, don't you

I'm old enough to remember when you had to get up and walk 10 feet to turn the TV channel over

Those were the days.

Color, or black & white?

Good lord, everyone saying that light must be from the fridge or must be light that contains excess calories, are you serious?
There are more factors involved in issues like obesity than just self-control. Hormonal, psychological, and environmental factors play large parts.

You wouldn't put all of the blame on someone who was underweight person for being anorexic, would you?
"Is it the type of psychological disorder that steals calories?"

You're better than this, people.

But, isn't opening and closing the refrigerator door exercising?

You just know we will soon be seeing fridge doors that open at the touch of a button, don't you

I'm old enough to remember when you had to get up and walk 10 feet to turn the TV channel over

Those were the days.

Color, or black & white?

Family had a colour TV, but I got my first Black and White portable when I was 16. The amount of times I had to get up to turn the channel over or to adjust the wire aerial, it's no wonder I was skinny!

I know, right? Luckily there were only four channels, rather than the 3,418 we have to sort through these days!

Good lord, everyone saying that light must be from the fridge or must be light that contains excess calories, are you serious?
There are more factors involved in issues like obesity than just self-control. Hormonal, psychological, and environmental factors play large parts.

You wouldn't put all of the blame on someone who was underweight person for being anorexic, would you?
"Is it the type of psychological disorder that steals calories?"

You're better than this, people.

humour
ˈhjuːmə/Submit
noun
1.
the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.

Good lord, everyone saying that light must be from the fridge or must be light that contains excess calories, are you serious?
There are more factors involved in issues like obesity than just self-control. Hormonal, psychological, and environmental factors play large parts.

You wouldn't put all of the blame on someone who was underweight person for being anorexic, would you?
"Is it the type of psychological disorder that steals calories?"

You're better than this, people.

Whether or not an anorexic person's psychological disorder is being effectively treated, they must eat or they will die. At a certain point, the "why" behind the problem becomes moot - the physical problem needs to be addressed and addressed directly.

My insomnia is making me fat

Well, it might not be helping in the cortisol/insulin feedback loop.

I'm also growing tusks

:laugh:

I work 11p-7, so I sleep during the day. I've never slept at night my entire life.

You worked the night shift as a child?

I wondered this too

I guess staying awake all night crying could be the reason?

I work 11p-7, so I sleep during the day. I've never slept at night my entire life.

You worked the night shift as a child?

I wondered this too

I guess staying awake all night crying could be the reason?

I bet her Mom got fat. I was totally ravenous until my kids started sleeping through the night.

My insomnia is making me fat

Well, it might not be helping in the cortisol/insulin feedback loop.

I'm also growing tusks

Time to move north

Good lord, everyone saying that light must be from the fridge or must be light that contains excess calories, are you serious?
There are more factors involved in issues like obesity than just self-control. Hormonal, psychological, and environmental factors play large parts.

You wouldn't put all of the blame on someone who was underweight person for being anorexic, would you?
"Is it the type of psychological disorder that steals calories?"

You're better than this, people.

humour
ˈhjuːmə/Submit
noun
1.
the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.

Sorry, sometimes the tone of a comment can be lost when it is only expressed via text.

Energy in ..... Energy Out :-p

Also in the news ...... The increased access to knowledge (via the interweb) has significantly reduced the Average IQ of the Human Race...

And then I can eat what I want and still lose weight, right?


Only if you eat it in 6 small meals a day


I DO, I DO!! Well.... 'small meals' is relative isn't it?

I'm off to find a dark room and the smaller one of a 5 litre and 10 litre tub of ice cream

stop eating so damn much..
stop blaming other circumstances for weight gain.

no one is born fat/obese.

I didn't realize that these and other posts were meant in a humorous fashion, please forgive my misunderstanding.

Further, thank you to these posts for providing information related to the issue:

I can't get your link to pull up, but this is not a new concept

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/29/aje.kwu117.short?rss=1
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118419
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972983/

My insomnia is making me fat

Well, it might not be helping in the cortisol/insulin feedback loop.

Seriously, presume it is linked to lack of sleep? This can affect hormones linked to fat storage like cortisol and melatonin, so makes sense

serious answer: lack of sleep can cause excessive hunger, so if exposure to light at night leads to lower quality sleep, then maybe that leads to overeating the next day.

I work 11p-7, so I sleep during the day. I've never slept at night my entire life.

You worked the night shift as a child?

I wondered this too

I guess staying awake all night crying could be the reason?

I bet her Mom got fat. I was totally ravenous until my kids started sleeping through the night.

AH! So YOU'RE the one to blame for the decreasing amounts of polar bears!!!

Even worse: when I told my Mom I was using disposable diapers, she thanked me for destroying the planet.

People who think that MFP is mean should never, ever become parents.

After our first child was born I was approached/scolded more than once by complete strangers for bottle feeding her while standing there minding my own business. I found myself responding, "yes, it's breast milk I'm not trying to kill my child." Activists . . .

You could have flashed a boobie and breastfed the kiddo?!? That would have been a sight for sore eyes. Just thinking creatively here.

I work 11p-7, so I sleep during the day. I've never slept at night my entire life.

You worked the night shift as a child?

I wondered this too

I guess staying awake all night crying could be the reason?

I bet her Mom got fat. I was totally ravenous until my kids started sleeping through the night.

AH! So YOU'RE the one to blame for the decreasing amounts of polar bears!!!

Even worse: when I told my Mom I was using disposable diapers, she thanked me for destroying the planet.

People who think that MFP is mean should never, ever become parents.

After our first child was born I was approached/scolded more than once by complete strangers for bottle feeding her while standing there minding my own business. I found myself responding, "yes, it's breast milk I'm not trying to kill my child." Activists . . .

Because formula kills, right?

I would have loved to see you suckle your little one. Well, actually it might have made me feel uncomfortable.

I got over my formula issues when my first was 9 months old. I was pumping, hating it, she wasn't drinking from a bottle during the daytime anyway and I realized that if she was drinking apple juice, formula certainly wasn't going to hurt her.

I stopped pumping, nursed her at night and gave her sitter formula to feed her through the day (as much as she would drink) and it was so much easier on everybody.

I nursed my second too, and did the same thing at 9 months.

Good lord, everyone saying that light must be from the fridge or must be light that contains excess calories, are you serious?
There are more factors involved in issues like obesity than just self-control. Hormonal, psychological, and environmental factors play large parts.

You wouldn't put all of the blame on someone who was underweight person for being anorexic, would you?
"Is it the type of psychological disorder that steals calories?"

You're better than this, people.

humour
ˈhjuːmə/Submit
noun
1.
the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.

Sorry, sometimes the tone of a comment can be lost when it is only expressed via text.

Energy in ..... Energy Out :-p

Also in the news ...... The increased access to knowledge (via the interweb) has significantly reduced the Average IQ of the Human Race...

And then I can eat what I want and still lose weight, right?


Only if you eat it in 6 small meals a day


I DO, I DO!! Well.... 'small meals' is relative isn't it?

I'm off to find a dark room and the smaller one of a 5 litre and 10 litre tub of ice cream

stop eating so damn much..
stop blaming other circumstances for weight gain.

no one is born fat/obese.

I didn't realize that these and other posts were meant in a humorous fashion, please forgive my misunderstanding.

Further, thank you to these posts for providing information related to the issue:

I can't get your link to pull up, but this is not a new concept

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/29/aje.kwu117.short?rss=1
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118419
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972983/

My insomnia is making me fat

Well, it might not be helping in the cortisol/insulin feedback loop.

Seriously, presume it is linked to lack of sleep? This can affect hormones linked to fat storage like cortisol and melatonin, so makes sense

serious answer: lack of sleep can cause excessive hunger, so if exposure to light at night leads to lower quality sleep, then maybe that leads to overeating the next day.

The bottom line is that you can recognize that an outside force is making it harder. I knew that nursing + not sleeping at night was making it difficult for me to regulate my appetite. It was self-evident.

But the bottom line is that you still have to make choices for yourself.

You can change the situation (sleep in a darker room, even though the article doesn't suggest that there is enough evidence to make that recommendation) or suck it up and and eat less even though it's "harder" for you.

I chose to wait until my kids were a year old, because the situation was temporary and I was already giving all I had.

However, I can tell you that - for whatever reason - some of my friends who do everything right in terms of weight loss and exercise still find it harder than I do. They are just hungrier. A half pound a week loss and they are hungry all the time, even though they eat high fiber, whole foods with balanced macros, etc. Who knows why? They deal with it. They do what they need to do to be fit and healthy.

This is an interesting article and hopefully it will offer a clue that even one person might find useful. But, really, it's kind of a rabbit hole if you aren't already taking care of the big stuff (macros, micros and daily activity).

Who sleeps in the light and why? I've always preferred a pitch black room with room darkening window shades and drapes. Back before I used my phone as my beside clock/alarm, I used to turn clocks on their face because I didn't like the red or green glow they let off. Am I odd in this because I always assumed most people preferred to sleep in the dark.

I was also obese at one time so I guess light didn't play a role in mine at all.