All I Wanna Do Is Eat At NIGHT!!!!

If you know you want to eat at night, try saving some calories for later and plan a snack at night. Make sure it fits your macros, but sweets/carbs aren't bad if you're getting enough proteins and fats as well. I love ending the night with a serving of gelato or ice cream, and it really seems to wrap up my cravings well; you just have to make sure to portion it out and leave room in the daily calories.

Also, personally, I am usually hungrier at night, so I eat a small breakfast, small lunch, small afternoon snack, and then I eat about 40% of my daily calories after 6pm. Just find what works for you; meal timing doesn't matter.

I save 200-450 calories so I can have a night snack. In the beginning, I would log those calories ahead of time so they would be there. My favorite night snack choices are air popped popcorn with butter, chocolate, and/or a cocktail

auddii wrote: »

If you know you want to eat at night, try saving some calories for later and plan a snack at night. Make sure it fits your macros, but sweets/carbs aren't bad if you're getting enough proteins and fats as well. I love ending the night with a serving of gelato or ice cream, and it really seems to wrap up my cravings well; you just have to make sure to portion it out and leave room in the daily calories.

Also, personally, I am usually hungrier at night, so I eat a small breakfast, small lunch, small afternoon snack, and then I eat about 40% of my daily calories after 6pm. Just find what works for you; meal timing doesn't matter.

^This! I am like you. I am fine during the day, but night time rolls around and I just want food. Sometimes I am genuinely hungry, but often not. So, I save some calories for night time, and I try to eat a salad (but I put something in it that makes me feel a little indulgent. Like something crunchy, some nuts, a few croutons, some sunflower seeds.). More often than not, this works for me and I still stay in my calorie budget.

When I get like that, I grab a couple spoons of peanut butter and a few multigrain crackers. It always does the trick for me...and my husband does it too. We like the honey peanut butter, so that helps kick the "sweet" craving.

LOL @ "evolutionary reasons"................No I think you do it because you're hungry.

eeelizabeth2012 wrote: »

itsclobberintime wrote: »

Skip breakfast, eat more later.

Is this really a good idea though? I heard breakfast is important for metabolism. And that it should be within the first hour of waking. Also, a high protein breakfast usually lasts me until lunch time before I am hungry again.

I can't say for sure, but I think that's bunk. Or maybe just untrue for me. I'm up by 6:30 am and don't generally get hungry or eat until closer to 11 or 12. SOMEtimes as early as 10 depending on convenience and my schedule for the day. It actually makes me feel sick if I eat within the first few hours of waking up. When i log something in my diary as "breakfast" it would probably be more accurate to call it "lunch #1" lol. I do the bulk of my eating (probably around 65% - 70% of my calories) between 8 and 11 pm

I can get pretty snacky at night too, what I find often works is having a small snack, like some dark chocolate, and then I do an extra thorough teeth brush/floss/mouth wash, more often than not it helps me focus less on wanting to keep snacking so I don't sabotage my clean teeth!

Don't let it sabotage your deficit then. I prefer to eat two dinners, one around 400-500 calories, and another little meal or dessert anywhere between 200-400 calories every night. On 1600 calories a day, I make it work. Tonight I get toast and peanut butter washed down with my favorite tea. And I've already had scrambled eggs, zucchini, squash, onions, tomatoes. Yum.

Yes I do this too. Actually looked this up and what I found was that it means your body is running low on energy. You can either fuel it with food or recharge it with sleep. If you want to lose weight, try a low calorie snack and go to bed earlier.

Having a disturbed sleep pattern 4-5 hrs average, I often want to eat in early hours of the morning eg 1-4 am. Spoke with my Gp who suggested that it could be related to thyroid problem ( this is all ok) or there is some link between 0CD and overeating particularly at night. As I am a mental health professional, will explore this option.

This is all good advice and all good suggestions. I don't really have much to add. I am an evening snacker as well. For a long time I fought it successfully. But I realized that when I do have a snack or two before bed not only do I sleep better, but I actually feel thinner in the morning. I like to have a bowl of popcorn and some chocolate or some fresh berries with whipped topping. Yup sometimes I'm just craving carbs so I'll have some Better N Peanut Butter on reduced carb/fat bread. That usually works and will save me from an all out binge But I know how it goes... you're not hungry at all, just craving something sweet, so you have something sweet and then you crave something salty so you have that, then back to something sweet... It's quite the mind game isn't it? I have come to a point where I prefer (now) to go to be slightly hungry and have a great breakfast by around 7:30 AM. I've always been a breakfast person anyway, now it consists of lotts of egg whites, meats and veggies. Yum! That holds me over to well into the afternoon. My lunch is usually light and sometimes I just snack instead of having lunch. Point is, the rest of my food is pushed further into the day so by the time I am eating my dinner it's early enough for some digest time but late enough to avoid snacking. Hope this helps.

Like others have said, I also want to snack at night, so I budget for it. I'm petite, so my goal is also 1200 cal/day, and I make it work. I usually have 200 or so calories left at the end of the day. And sometimes if I'm feeling snacky at night and don't have the calories, it actually motivates me to get up and exercise for 20-30 minutes so I can have a little snack.