Night eating

leomakarov · February 2016

jakeziskin1 wrote: »

leomakarov wrote: »

Look into the idea of IF - "Intermittent Fasting". Sounds like you skip breakfast anyways, so it's a great start for you. In a nutshell, you don't eat for 16 to 18 hrs, (fasting state), and the other 8 or 6 hrs you intake all of your required calories for that day. So you eat 1700 calories from , say, 2 pm to 8 pm, then Fast till 2 pm the following day. There are lots of resources on the web how it's done. There are some groups on this site that follow it also.

Ignore the "breakfast is a vital part of your daily food" BS. It's a lie.

I've fasted before. I never did intermittent though. I went three days no food and sis that 3 times in the course of a month. To me that was tough but I did like it after day two and how relaxed and focused I felt. In regards to IF it sounds like all I'm really doing is eating one big meal a day?

Doesn't matter how many meals you have. You can have 5 or 6 if you can fit them all in that 6 hr window and keep the calories at 1600 (or whatever your goal is).

Lapetitechat · February 2016

Night snacking is my worst enemy!! I can be so good all day and then whammo! Night munchies. Argh. My partner is supposed to be dieting too but he's a big time cheater, let me tell you!! Especially at night when he brings out the cookies.... evil, tempestuous, naughty man!!!

You know what has helped me? Sugar-free jello and a mug of low calorie hot chocolate. Seriously, they are my new best buddies at night. I eat the jello first because gelatin is somewhat filling even if it doesn't crunch, sadly. (cry) The drink is like 60 calories but it is a warm chocolatey hug (I swear) and the two slosh around in my tummy and give me the illusion of fullness. It works. Plus it is so low calorie that I don't go overboard on my daily calories. I admit I miss a crunchy snack though. Nope, carrots and celery do not fit the bill for a crunchy night time treat.

Or, I have eaten a bowl of Quaker Life Cereal with milk sometimes/instead - but the calories are higher and it is easy easy easy to fill the bowl instead of eating a measured amount, let me tell you. Hell, I could swallow the whole box in minutes.... so cereal is not often allowed out at night due to it's potential sudden death.

**Now - the sugar free Jello and the light hot chocolate are admittedly likely full of artificial sweeteners/crap chemicals - I know - bad bad bad - but this isn't a forever treaty! It's just something for now until slimmertimes happen and then hopefully I will find another type of snack that works as well at filling the gap without porking me out.

jakeziskin1 · February 2016

Lapetitechat wrote: »

Night snacking is my worst enemy!! I can be so good all day and then whammo! Night munchies. Argh. My partner is supposed to be dieting too but he's a big time cheater, let me tell you!! Especially at night when he brings out the cookies.... evil, tempestuous, naughty man!!!

You know what has helped me? Sugar-free jello and a mug of low calorie hot chocolate. Seriously, they are my new best buddies at night. I eat the jello first because gelatin is somewhat filling even if it doesn't crunch, sadly. (cry) The drink is like 60 calories but it is a warm chocolatey hug (I swear) and the two slosh around in my tummy and give me the illusion of fullness. It works. Plus it is so low calorie that I don't go overboard on my daily calories. I admit I miss a crunchy snack though. Nope, carrots and celery do not fit the bill for a crunchy night time treat.

Or, I have eaten a bowl of Quaker Life Cereal with milk sometimes/instead - but the calories are higher and it is easy easy easy to fill the bowl instead of eating a measured amount, let me tell you. Hell, I could swallow the whole box in minutes.... so cereal is not often allowed out at night due to it's potential sudden death.

**Now - the sugar free Jello and the light hot chocolate are admittedly likely full of artificial sweeteners/crap chemicals - I know - bad bad bad - but this isn't a forever treaty! It's just something for now until slimmertimes happen and then hopefully I will find another type of snack that works as well at filling the gap without porking me out.

Haha I know the feeling. It's hard when you have a partner or family and friends who are always cooking, eating or buying fast food, junk food. I'm at Walmart now, I'm going to buy some jello because I enjoy it and forgot it's 10 calories a serving lol thanks for the hot chocolate tips as well you really helped a lot and hopfully il use this for my urges!

beckytcy · February 2016

I also have this same problem, and lately I have found that one thing that helps is to eat some plain, nonfat greek yogurt with cinnamon sprinkled on it and some frozen berries in it. I weigh that with the food scale, eat it, drink some water with apple cider vinegar in it (that helps with cravings a bit) and then brush my teeth. Brushing my teeth tells me, "You are done eating for the day." If you have trouble sleeping (I also have this problem), have you tried melatonin? Per my doctor's recommendation, it is totally safe for helping you sleep, even for kids.

ManiacalLaugh · February 2016

OP regarding your supplements question (which seems to be a hot topic again):

Herbal supplements are not regulated and often don't disclose, or under disclose, their ingredients. Supplements such as Herbalife and Hydroxycut have been found to cause increased liver toxicity and even failure. Even after a class-action lawsuit was filed, and Hydroxycut promised to "change" their ingredients list, it was still found to cause substantial liver damage.

Please Google any supplement you consider taking.

This is my standard link for a long-term study that found in support of this argument:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004035/

Some have dismissed it since it's six years old, but there are newer studies with similar findings on the same site for the US National Library of Medicine.

jakeziskin1 · February 2016

beckytcy wrote: »

I also have this same problem, and lately I have found that one thing that helps is to eat some plain, nonfat greek yogurt with cinnamon sprinkled on it and some frozen berries in it. I weigh that with the food scale, eat it, drink some water with apple cider vinegar in it (that helps with cravings a bit) and then brush my teeth. Brushing my teeth tells me, "You are done eating for the day." If you have trouble sleeping (I also have this problem), have you tried melatonin? Per my doctor's recommendation, it is totally safe for helping you sleep, even for kids.

See I like you. I like when people can recommend medications like melitonin. I use that to. You had great advice thanks!

jakeziskin1 · February 2016

ManiacalLaugh wrote: »

OP regarding your supplements question (which seems to be a hot topic again):

Herbal supplements are not regulated and often don't disclose, or under disclose, their ingredients. Supplements such as Herbalife and Hydroxycut have been found to cause increased liver toxicity and even failure. Even after a class-action lawsuit was filed, and Hydroxycut promised to "change" their ingredients list, it was still found to cause substantial liver damage.

Please Google any supplement you consider taking.

This is my standard link for a long-term study that found in support of this argument:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004035/

Some have dismissed it since it's six years old, but there are newer studies with similar findings on the same site for the US National Library of Medicine.

Are there any suppliments you like it feel are good and not bad for your liver

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