Binge eating at nights?

Use your willpower. Just stop eating the junk. Replace with lettuce and salsa or berries or some other healthy, low-cal snack.

You could also just break the habit. Stop eating every time you get the urge to put food in your mouth.

If you find that you cannot break the habit on your own or you find yourself feeling badly because you ate food you didn't want to eat, consider seeing a therapist who specializes in eating disorders. Even if you don't have one, they can help you sort out why you eat when you aren't hungry.

Good luck.

Go to sleep.

I SO feel your pain! I am night owl, up often until 2:30 or 3 and find myself grazing off and on from about 10 until around 1. What I've started to do is make a huge jug of a really tasty herbal tea (Tazo sweet wild orange is good) and also have some veggies and hummus close by. Satisfies that weird craving for the "food that does not fill me". Good luck!

I actually do the same thing as you sometimes. A few days ago I grabbed a tub of icecream around 10pm. I thought about it really hard "do i really really really need to eat this right now? no. i don't.", and with all my might put it back in the freezer. therefore it really is all about willpower. it's hard but that's why losing weight is such a struggle for me as well. if losing weight was easy, we would all be at our ideal weight already.

Sometimes I chew sugarless gum to keep my mouth busy. Sounds silly, but it keeps me from mindlessly snacking (I do that when I go to the movies, so I won't be tempted to eat the popcorn).

I am guilty. College student, late night studying and stress eating out of boredom.
Just keeping the junk out of site and out of mind---if I don't buy it, I won't eat it. But being offered free desserts (nearly every day for me) is the true struggle I have........make small goals, stick with it, and eventually you'll create new habits!

Embrace the fact that you will crave snacks at the end of the day and save up calories especially for it. I have Special K bags of cracker crisps that are only 86 calories but satisfy that crisp craving. I use Slimfast chocolate bars for the same thing too as they are under 100 calories,

You could attempt to make the energy dense, nutrient sparse foods (the ones you're likely to eat on the couch) less accessible and less visible/prevalent in your environment.

An extreme example of this would be to get rid of it so that it's not in your house. If you need to do this, then just do it. You are much less likely to get in the car and drive to the store to go purchase your favorite treats, then you are to walk over to the kitchen and grab a handful.

A less extreme example that can still be effective for many people would be to re-position the items. So for example if you typically keep them out in the open, where you can see them, move them to a different floor of your house in a sealed container where it is not in plain sight. This will cause the item to be less convenient to access and it will also potentially cause you to think about the item less frequently since it won't be as prevalent in your environment.

If you do decide to have some anyways, which you may, rather than bringing the entire container to the couch, portion out the food item, put the package away entirely, and only bring the portion you intend to eat, to the couch.

Change your routine. Literally sit somewhere different. Or go for a walk at night to destress, come home and focus on your hygiene or something productive, then just go to bed. It is habit. Break the cycle.

This totally isn't going to be something you like, but it's worked for me. My problem is that I too binged at night when relaxing. So now? I make myself go to bed early. I brush my teeth (which for some reason helps a bit) and then call it a night.