Starting anew on MFP, how do you quit night time snacking?

Honestly? I go to bed pretty early. I love wine, but I have also been avoiding alcohol except for special occasions. No booze since May.

Best of luck! :flowerforyou:

Night time snacking was the reason I was once obese, couldn't get a good nights sleep without a full stomach, I trained myself to stop night time snacking, and fast after dinner, it's becomes easy after a while, and you no longer think about it, but now im a maintance and have returned to night snacking, but just fruit and maybe a few nuts, nothing big in calories and it hasnt affected my weight, and even lost motr weight I didn't want to lose, so night time is okay, but keep it low on calories.

i budget my daily calories so i can have a bowl of cereal before bed every night - once in a long while an ounce of potato chips, but usually cereal with xylitol and non-fat milk because i like sweets to fall asleep to.

I think starting with different types of food you snack on will make a difference. It takes time, but strawberries with a bit of sugar sprinkled overtop is surprisingly low in calories (especially when compared to packaged cookies or other junk food). I also find that simply chewing a piece of gum is beneficial too, since it's like no calories but convinces me I'm not hungry. It also makes me thirsty sometimes when I chew gum, so I drink water & that fills me up/removes my cravings. Another thing that helps me is doing abdominal crunches, as then I often don't feel hungry afterwards. All the best with it. Realize it often is a slow, tedious process, but definitely worth it in the end

I budget them in, or I go walking around Wal-mart for an hour, and earn another 100 or so calories. I'm a night owl, I'll be up playing video games until I *have* to go to bed because I either have to work in the morning, shuttle my daughter somewhere in the morning, or I'm just too tired to stay up anymore, so snacking does happen occasionally.

That said, I think I stopped having the urge to snack later as often when I upped my protein to 30%, from 20%. Protein makes me feel full longer, so I make sure I have some at every meal. In fact I'm one of those that tries to go a little over on my protein, on target on fat, and let carbs fall where they may, as long as I am at or less than my goal (if I go over a bit, I don't sweat it... it's a target, not a wall.) Good luck. Remember though, make sure your methods are something you won't stop doing. And if you know you are going to have a bit of wine and food at night, then add it in at the beginning of the day. That way you have nothing to feel guilty about later.

I save some calories for a planned late night snack. Because I know I'm going to snack at night - that's when I get hungry. So I plan for it, and that solves the problem, because I make it fit my calories.

If you like to snack at night, why try to change it? I try to allow myself calories in my days just for night snacking. It's midnight and I'm eating ice cream as I type this. I do snack less often at night now that I've gained self-control over my eating, but I sure do like to do it from time to time. It's kind of related to stress for me. The more stressed I am, the more I want to stuff my face once I'm home for the night and have some downtime.

What are your motivations for weight loss? Consider writing down some of these motivations or posting a picture on the inside of the snack cupboard in your home. That way you're reminded of what you're fighting for when you're tempted by junk food. Motivation boards are a great way to visually remind yourself of your goals and what you wish to attain.

The easiest way to keep yourself from snacking is to avoid purchasing those items in the first place. What do you like to snack on? Perhaps try making some healthy snack recipes that fit better into your nutrition goals? It's perfectly fine to have a glass of wine in the evening-- but make sure you budget enough calories to account for it. If you're unable to budget or if you're tempted too much, it may be better to save alcohol for special occasions.

At the end of the day it really comes down to mind over matter. Weight loss is never easy and it's a true test of your mental resolve. Are you really hungry at the end of the night, or do you find that you're snacking at the end of the night because you're bored or it's mindless? If you're not really that hungry, then this is definitely something you want to identify. Try doing something else, if you find you're tempted by food when you're bored--- reading, enjoy a hobby, perform a tabbata series, etc.

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For me, I either pre-plan my snacking and keep my calories lower, or I make myself work it off after. At first I didn't keep track at night and knew I wasn't being accountable and also wasn't losing. So now I keep some extra calories for snacking or work them off. I am not willing to ruin a great day by having the second glass of wine or extra cheese spread.

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In a normal non-fat person, by day they run on carbohydrate, and by night they go into protein-burning ketosis (like people on the Atkins diet) and lose whatever excess they stored up during the day.

When you snack at night you are keeping yourself on a carbohydrate metabolism.

When your body goes for awhile without using a particular protein, it tends to ramp down production of that protein. It's likely your ketone metabolism has been down-regulated because of the night-time snacking. You don't have a lot of the enzymes around to run on a ketone metabolism, so every time your body goes into a normal nightly ketosis, you are ravenous because you didn't have enough of the enzymes on hand to make enough ketone to meet demand.

Basically you feel starving because you don't have sugar to run on, and your ketone-using ability is impaired.

Stop snacking on carbs like alcohol at night, because this means your ketone metabolism never gets a chance to work out and up-regulate. Instead, snack on proteins that have no carbs.

If you go onto a low carb diet you will be more miserable than most for the first two weeks, but once you have ramped up your ketone-burning metabolism your night-time cravings should disappear.