do you go to bed hungry???

i drink a big glass of water and hope that the hunger stays at bay until I can fall asleep... But my hunger is not genuine hunger normally. It's because I used to snack in bed before sleeping and my body craves sweet things when I go to bed.

I usually have a green tea. warm, soothing, filling and 0 calories

Is this a one off thing? If so, eat something. Don't go to bed hungry. If it happens often you may want to reevaluate your diet and calorie target.

i can't sleep hungry, so since it's after midnight, i'd count the cals toward the next day & if it is earlier, being 100 cals over every so often isn't going to ruin our goals )

Never, I have a casein protein shake right before bed.

I'll usually have a yogurt right before i go to bed as I can't fall asleep when I'm hungry.

Yes, initially I have. I personally have made friends with "hunger" and have come to the conclusion that it is nothing but a spoiled child! I am so used to giving in___ It screams and I feed it.
Not necessary if I have eaten enough calories and gotten enough exercise, water and sleep. This was a huge ah-ha moment for me. ANyway now that I have learned to ignore hunger it doesn't pain me as much anymore.

side note: I am new to MFP and am looking to friend fellow life changers on their journey.

I never go to bed hungry. I don't believe in it. And I go to bed around 2 - 3am almost every night. Exercise calories and excellently planned schedules of feeding seem to help. If ever there are times where I have a minimal amount of calories left, I'll suck it up and just go over for the day, then start brand new the next day with better planning.

I do. Most of the time i have managed to spread out my cals enough so i don't but then i also get woken in the night by my kids and i'm ravenous by the time i get back to bed it does make it so i take longer to get back to sleep but i live with it. Even when i was eating more i'd be in the same i've never eaten in the middle of the night. That's the one bad habit i never got into.

if youre genuinely hungry and its not just psychological craving, then eat something. just have a cereal bar or a yoghurt or something. Going 100 cals or 200 cals over your allowance occasionally will not make a difference, since MFP usually puts you at a 250 - 500 cal a day deficit anyway. The worst thing that will happen is it will be a maintenance day instead of a loss day, but if its genuine hunger, then probably not even that. If youre so hungry that you cant sleep, that is likely to be more of a hindrance to weightloss than having an extra snack

Generally speaking, I don't do hungry. If I'm hungry, I eat. But, I do distinguish between true hunger, the munchies, and simple desire to chew/taste something. True, physical hunger, doesn't like to be ignored and just finds other ways to get its needs met.

So, if I found myself truly hungry at 11 pm, I'd eat something. And if I'm actually hungry...a cucumber or some fruit isn't going to cut it. I have some cheese or some yogurt...something dense and filling. I find If I go to bed hungry, I'll just wake up in the middle of the night to eat. Or wake up ravenous...and maybe eat a little too much for breakfast because my eyes were bigger than my stomach.

And you're going for sustainable habits, not "diet habits." *You will keep the weight off in the exact same way that you lost it.* So ask yourself. Are you the sort of person who will go to bed hungry for the rest of your life to keep the weight off? Some people can and do. I will say, however, that many of us who have struggled with weight...will not. So whenever you get a question like this, ask yourself...is this a sustainable habit? Or a 'diet habit?' And the answer is personal...lots of people do things everyday that I don't think I could sustain...and vice versa.

Hi, I am fairly new to this and was being pretty strict and going hungry but was really not enjoying myself and I can see that I may not stick with it if this is what it will be like. I am going to try the green tea and gum ideas and if they don't cut it a yoghurt.

I'd recommend against it - when I have catch-up sleep, and so don't get up till mid day and wake up hungry, I just can't stop eating. I guess going to bed hungry would have similar results - butI usually have the opposite problem - it's 2am, I've just eaten 700 calories, and I've still got 400 to go....

Last night, I didn't eat everything I should have, but I *will* eat extra today to make up for it.

:yawn:

It is 11:15p.m. and I have eaten all but 19 calories and I'm soooo hungry. Just curious what everyone else does when this happens. do you go to bed hungry? or do you get a snack?



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You know a key factor that everyone forgets about wt loss is adequate sleep, if this doesn't happen your metabolism gets screwed up, so eat something so you can get a good nights sleep.:yawn:

I often go to bed hungry as it tends to feel like to much effort and if I'm really tired my bed is more of a priority