How do you deal with late night cravings

Feel free to ignore this long *kitten* post, but I noticed that my ticker wasn't working earlier. I don't know if it is now, but in case it still isn't, I'd like to add to my previous comment, in case it sways anyone in the "anything you eat after 7pm magically turns into fat" camp that I'm 90 pounds down from my highest weight.

I lost that weight and kept (most of) it off eating my biggest meal right before bed most days. 1000 calories or so (I used to follow more of an IF pattern). I don't eat as large of a meal before bedtime nowadays due to my work and school schedule - now that I have to get up at 5:30 in the morning, I usually do end up eating breakfast aroud 7 am and then spacing out smaller meals throughout the day. I still eat my last meal late at night. No magical fat gain or slower rate of loss due to eating late here. It's about calories in versus calories out. That's it. Really. Weight loss and maintenance is a difficult enough thing to achieve long term, let's not make it more complicated than it needs to be.

If you like to eat at night, just plan your day that way. You'll save yourself a lot of misery. For me personally, going to bed hungry is like the worst thing I could do for my weight loss because it leaves me unfulfilled and more likely to overeat at another time.