My goals are going pretty well. I'm about to settle own for another night of sleep and no eating!!! Thanks everyone for the great daily chats. It really helps to talk to those who understand.

Guys I need help!!! I can't or have not been able to stop my night eating for more than two days straight. I have some suspicions as to what triggers it. Tell me what you think. 1. I only feel like eating when I get home. I have trouble stopping after dinner. Even though I'm full and have eaten what my nutritionist says, I feel like "I need a sweet treat.' So I try a diet hot coco but I think that activates the sweet tooth in my brain and then I want more. So I pop some sugar free gum into my mouth. I end up eating like the whole pack. So now I have lots of fake sugar on board and my body doesn't want to stop. It wants more sweets!!!!! Then I try a little cocoa powder with stevia....still not enough. Do you think the fake sugars are setting me up for failure? At the most during the day I'll have a mint piece of gum and do notice then that I want more and more gum, but don't because I'm at work and have no time to get more out. The end of the story always ends up in eating popcorn etc. and then I feel bad about myself.

What are your ideas for breaking this cycle? It is making me feel like I don't have control over it, which I know I do. Something is triggering the addictive part of my mind, where it becomes stronger than my will power and goals.

It's almost as if I need to sit still after my dinner meal and meditate and slow down and just learn to be comfortable with myself after dinner. I think also I go go go go go all day long. I get up early, teach all day, go straight to my gym class, do errands, make dinner and finally sit down about 7ish or sometimes 8. I think I still eat my dinner with that same go go go energy.

Okay.....analyze away!!!!! All criticism and thoughts welcome. I need to change things. This is really lowering my self esteem. Thank you everyone for reading my loooooon post. Hugs to you all who are struggling with your own day to day stuff. Glad we have each other for support.

I talked with my nutritionist and we came up with a few things. 1. Don't have my trigger foods in the house for a while. 2. Have regular check in with her before I go to sleep, even it that means midnight. 3. She wants me to pick a goal, an athletic goal that will help me think twice before eating unhealthy. I thought that was a great idea. Then I won't eat stuff because I will want my body to perform the best. I think I might do this biking trip with a friend called "Reach the Beach." You can do a 25, 40, or 100 mile ride. I think I'm going to do the 40.
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Nice work nony. I love nice grocery stores!

That is a great goal. I find being moderate is much harder. I did great last night on my night eating. I tried a new strategy that worked. I kept a tiny amount of snap peas by my bed and I did wake up once and want to eat so I had sap peas. Then I fell right back to sleep. I'm so so happy. This issue has been very frustrating for me .

alskarani wrote: »

Yes, mp, how did it go? How courageous of you to pursue your dream!

I have moved recently, and am w/o wifi...and for some reason, the forums don't like to load on my phone's data...sorry I've been MIA.

My goal for this week (yay for Mondays!) is to be aware of what I'm feeling when I really want to give into behaviors. I don't know that I'm strong enough to stop them yet, but I'm telling myself "that's ok." But I can try to understand them more, and maybe that will lead me to a place where I am better able to replace or stop them.

Looking forward to hearing from everyone else! Here's to hope for the week!

You could just discuss your behaviors on here. I feel like talking about it takes the power out of whatever behavior it is and let's me look at it in an analytical way instead of a judging way.