Late night hunger. How do you deal with it?

Save some calories for the time of day you know you'll want to eat something. I know I want to eat after the kids are in bed, so I usually skip breakfast and save the calories. You could also try a lighter breakfast or lunch.

If I'm wanting something late, and I have no calories left, I'll drink a lot of water. Brushing my teeth or chewing mint gum also helps.

I did single serving snacks for a while - drive out and get the one serving of ice cream from walgreens, make one serving of brownie, mug cake, oatmeal, couple hard boiled eggs, etc. Options that took a while to prepare and really think about how many calories seemed to work best. The anticipation of the snack itself provided some satisfaction and obviously would kill some time as well, which helps delay my interest in the next snack. Also sometimes complicated planning becomes too damn much for my sleepy head and I just say to heck with it and go to sleep. I tracked those items under midnight snack categories just to separate them out from normal snacks and analyze them as time went on. I don't use the category as often anymore.

One thing to realize is that food timing has no impact on weight loss. There's nothing wrong with liking to get up and grab a meal or snack in the evening or night. It's getting everything to fit within your reasonably chosen goals that should be the challenge.

Nowadays I keep a bottle of Crush enhancer water beside me all day and night. It probably contributes to the fact that I'm not snacking in the middle of the night anymore. But if I really wanted the food, I'd get up and get it

I try not to eat for a few hours before bed, but if I'm hungry, I eat.

Have some strawberries or kiwi or something. You can have five strawberries for 20 calories.

Hot green or ginger tea.

Just save some of your calories for night time snacks. Hummus is great with cucumbers or pitas, peanut butter and apples, popcorn (you get more bang for your buck).

If the TV is your trigger... stay away from it. Find another way to relax. What is more important to you, the tube or getting your health in order?

I used to have the same issue. Favorite show coming on, gotta get my snacks together. It got me a useless spare tire around my middle that I allowed to grow. For that reason and others I stopped watching television.

The sacrifice is well worth it.

I plan that kind of stuff into my day. I enjoy an evening snack while I'm watching television...I just plan for it.

Pre-log the day before so you can allocate snacks for the evening. I always snack at night, but then I make sure that I have the calories available to do that.

I personally don't eat while watching tv, bc I feel like chewing distracts me from watching what's happening on my show, strange I know.

When I am stressed out I tend to binge more and eat when I am alone at home. So anytime I realize what is happening I eat something that fills me up a lot and makes me feel bloated.

For me a good protein shake does it. I freeze fruits of all sorts and guacamole to have ready. Then I blend one of a choice with lots of ice, protein powder, some almond and whole milk and I feel bloated/full for hours. Sometimes I have a few crackers with it. After this even if I feel like snacking I don't because my stomach feels like it can't take in anything.

I'm not sure if everyone feels as full and bloated as I do with protein shakes but find something that really fills you up but is healthy and try having that before you settle down.

Good luck, food is such good confort it's hard keeping it away.

Oh, I am soooo familiar with this problem! I can eat well all day, but once 10 pm rolls past, I have no will power at all...

Here's what worked really well for me: I get up super early (like 5:30 or 6) in the morning and exercise for an hour before anyone else is up. That way, I burn a lot of extra calories - and the night time snacking problem solves itself, since I'm so tired by 10 pm I just go to sleep.

I visualize that my body is getting thinner when i'm hungry late at night or in the middle of the night.…I just focus on the fact that breakfast will be coming soon enough. I might drink a hot tea..but typically ignore it..cause who wants to ruin a great day of staying on track to blow it at midnight.

I'm the same way. I just recently started dieting, and although I normally do have "bonus" calories, I hate to eat past 7 in the evening. But yet, every time I sit down to watch some Workaholics or Shameless, I get this annoying thing in the back of my mind telling me to go get some unhealthy snack. So I just like to sit back and tell myself that enjoying the late night food that I'm craving would only make me happy until it's gone. But losing weight and being a better version of myself will last a life time if I stay strong. Just giving yourself a little pep talk, or telling yourself you don't need that snack really does wonders, even if it is so simple.

Decaf coffee and sugar free caramel syrup

I fill myself up with raw vegetables. White cabbage - love it. Sugar Snap Peas - fantastic. My other fancy is Haywards Sweet onions (pickled) - I love them.

Your bed will become a bit of a dutch oven but at least you won't be eating anything bad.

My hunger is worse in the evening. If I go to bed hungry, I wake up constantly hungry and it makes me a crabbed cow the next day. I thought I'd learn to sleep with the hunger but I haven't.

I always keep a minimum of 200kcal for supper, or have a snack around dinner time and a late dinner that will take me through the night.

I think people are different. I am never hungry on a morning, in fact I usually have to be up and about a good 2 hours before I am hungry, so I've come to realise that it's just the way I am and trying to fight what my body wants naturally isn't going to work ie. eat a good breakfast and stop eating at a certain time in the evening - my body wants food later in the day, so I let it have what it wants, ie. eat less in the morning and more in the evening.