Desire to eat at night

Bad habits are hard to break.

That saying didn't come from nowhere! But you can break them. Once you develop good habits, they become easier and easier to live with.

If you aren't all that hungry during the day, maybe you could eat less at those times so you could eat more in the evenings. Otherwise, you just have to use willpower. Commit to changing the habit and mean it. Be determined, so that's nothing can stop you.

If you set your mind to it and work hard, you'll do it!

Nobody said it was easy. But you can do it!!

I have the same problem. I don't know why, I just want junk food.

I find if I exercise after work, I get home later so a) it's less time to binge eat, and b) I'm more likely to make better food choices. I'll also try to keep myself busy by doing dishes/cleaning the kitchen and walking my dog. Prepping food for the next couple days helps kill some time too.

The other thing I'm trying to do is eat a bit less during the day and save some extra calories for the evening, so I don't go over, or I don't go over by a lot.

I eat half of my calories throughout the day, and the other half after I get home from work.

If it fits your calories and macros, it isn't a problem. Is this kind of eating causing you to go over?

I'm good at following restricted calorie diets. That is until I get home from work at about 5 PM. From that point until my head hits the pillow at about 11 PM, all I want to do is eat. I'm not hungry. I just want to eat. It wrecks my diet and I feel guilty and horrible because I failed.

I can't be the only one with this problem. Is this stress eating? If so, I don't feel stressed. How do others handle this?

Break the habit... Like really there isn't much more to say then that you should be speaking with a doctor about this and not the internet.

Yes... I find that eating or snacking at night before bed is just comfort eating. I used to have the desire to do this as well. For me it was just a matter of will power and reminding myself that after killing my workout and MMA, why on earth would I want to be counterproductive. I just keep reminding myself of that. Almost each night when the urge hits me, I make myself a diet tea or slim tea and I sip on that and eat exactly two cups of Angie's popcorn.... very slowly. This not only comforts but distracts me from wanting other goodies. I make it last and by the time I am done I am pretty much ready for bed.

For me, I just eat (and eat) air popped pop corn with spray butter. Very few cals!

Make sure you eat protein, fiber, and calorie dense foods during the day. This will make you full and you'll have calories left for a nightly snack.

I had issues with this at first, so I would eat sparsely throughout the day and save the bulk of my calories for night time. It let me snack, but I was able to stay in control of my calories. I slowly worked myself to a point where I was eating more throughout the day and snacking less. Like everything else in life, getting to a healthy weight and breaking bad habits takes practice. But as far as weight loss goes, it really doesn't matter what time you eat your food. . . so if night time is when you eat the most, fit it into your day.