Waking up in the middle of the night just to eat?!!!
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I have done this, but not really because I'm hungry. Its more I wake up to pee or something and then I'm like man I'd love a PB sandwich. I'm a PB addict. I'd eat it for every meal all the time if I could and still be reasonably healthy but I figure getting some greens in there somewhere is probably a good idea from a nutritional perspective. So for me its not a calorie deficit thing, just a I'm awake and the craving hits so I do it. That being said, I add it to the next days calorie intake and move on. Happened last night actually.2
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Marilyn0924 wrote: »Thanks for all the great replies! I'll increase my calories a bit since that seems the most popular answer. I'm just a bit worried that even though I exercise 4 to 5 times a week, I'm only 5 foot so going over 1200 calories won't help me with weight loss.
Do you eat back any of those exercise calories?
No because I don't think my work out is intense enough to make up a significant deficit.0 -
Marilyn0924 wrote: »Thanks for all the great replies! I'll increase my calories a bit since that seems the most popular answer. I'm just a bit worried that even though I exercise 4 to 5 times a week, I'm only 5 foot so going over 1200 calories won't help me with weight loss.
Do you eat back any of those exercise calories?
No because I don't think my work out is intense enough to make up a significant deficit.
This might be your problem. Eat back ~50% of them and see how you fare.0 -
Marilyn0924 wrote: »Thanks for all the great replies! I'll increase my calories a bit since that seems the most popular answer. I'm just a bit worried that even though I exercise 4 to 5 times a week, I'm only 5 foot so going over 1200 calories won't help me with weight loss.
Do you eat back any of those exercise calories?
No because I don't think my work out is intense enough to make up a significant deficit.
What's your workout?0 -
Do you have a lot of muscle? I have about 100-150 calories of casein protein just before sleep. And you're not peeing when you wake up?0
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I used to do that before I started MFP. For me it was just a bad habit. Couldn’t go back to sleep, so I just wanted to eat.0
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Hi guys, I've recently started this weird habit of just waking up in the night to scoff down something. It's not even anything special that's tempting...last night was a slice of bread with butter
Does this happen to anyone else? Did you find a solution for it? I would appreciate any help because it cuts into my calories for the next day and just puts me in a bit of a bad mood
Nope! I finish my dinner and desert around 8PM, and with the exception of (drinking) water, I don't eat anything else until breakfast the next morning, between 8 and 9AM. I don't feel hungry after dinner or during the night, just sleepy.
Make sure that your dinners are fulfilling and that you balance your protein and fats.0 -
psychod787 wrote: »Sorry for the rather long winded info earlier. Just wanted to let you know that you were not alone or weak willed. That i think it has/does happen to most of us and that I believe there is some biology to it. Best wishes and nourish yourself well with all that exercise.
Absolutely there's some biology to it..we've been evolving for 200,000 years as homo sapiens and 2 MILLION years as hominids. We are programmed over that long evolution to seek food, store food, expend as few calories as possible, and to ratchet into survival mode if we go on deficit. Imagine taking 2 million years to evolve food survival skills, and only in the last 50 years to try to undo those 2 million years. The trick is tricking our bodies and our thousands and thousands of years of evolution. Never go too low with your calories because your body..for its survival..has evolved the skills of slowing down its metabolism to burn less, while increasing your cravings to get you to eat.
Its seen in all animals, not just humans. Ask any cat owner- Cat food with poor protein levels keep the cat eating and eating and eating (and eating) while it tries to get the proper nutrition it needs, so the cat gets fat because its on a nutritional deficit and not getting enough protein. Humans do exactly the same. So begin with protein every time. There is an ideal but narrow calorie window in which you lose weight but not so low that you trigger starvation mode. Yo-yo dieting is a no-no, since it it makes your calories too low so that your body responds you into gaining it all back while slowing your metabolism, every time. Crash diets fail for the same reason, your body slows its metabolic rate down when you go too low, and when you go off the diet, your evolution forces binge cravings and gain it all back. Absolutely biology.
Get enough protein first, and keep your calories JUST under break-even, and it will curve your carb cravings and midnight raids without kicking you into starvation mode, so that your weight loss lasts.
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Apparently Hilary Swank used to wake up in the middle of the night just to eat while training for Million Dollar Baby.
And because I pretty much idolize her body here:
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grammagrape wrote: »psychod787 wrote: »Sorry for the rather long winded info earlier. Just wanted to let you know that you were not alone or weak willed. That i think it has/does happen to most of us and that I believe there is some biology to it. Best wishes and nourish yourself well with all that exercise.
Absolutely there's some biology to it..we've been evolving for 200,000 years as homo sapiens and 2 MILLION years as hominids. We are programmed over that long evolution to seek food, store food, expend as few calories as possible, and to ratchet into survival mode if we go on deficit. Imagine taking 2 million years to evolve food survival skills, and only in the last 50 years to try to undo those 2 million years. The trick is tricking our bodies and our thousands and thousands of years of evolution. Never go too low with your calories because your body..for its survival..has evolved the skills of slowing down its metabolism to burn less, while increasing your cravings to get you to eat.
Its seen in all animals, not just humans. Ask any cat owner- Cat food with poor protein levels keep the cat eating and eating and eating (and eating) while it tries to get the proper nutrition it needs, so the cat gets fat because its on a nutritional deficit and not getting enough protein. Humans do exactly the same. So begin with protein every time. There is an ideal but narrow calorie window in which you lose weight but not so low that you trigger starvation mode. Yo-yo dieting is a no-no, since it it makes your calories too low so that your body responds you into gaining it all back while slowing your metabolism, every time. Crash diets fail for the same reason, your body slows its metabolic rate down when you go too low, and when you go off the diet, your evolution forces binge cravings and gain it all back. Absolutely biology.
Get enough protein first, and keep your calories JUST under break-even, and it will curve your carb cravings and midnight raids without kicking you into starvation mode, so that your weight loss lasts.
Wow... woo's as well for you. I hope the person who is doing it will post their ideas.1 -
psychod787 wrote: »grammagrape wrote: »psychod787 wrote: »Sorry for the rather long winded info earlier. Just wanted to let you know that you were not alone or weak willed. That i think it has/does happen to most of us and that I believe there is some biology to it. Best wishes and nourish yourself well with all that exercise.
Absolutely there's some biology to it..we've been evolving for 200,000 years as homo sapiens and 2 MILLION years as hominids. We are programmed over that long evolution to seek food, store food, expend as few calories as possible, and to ratchet into survival mode if we go on deficit. Imagine taking 2 million years to evolve food survival skills, and only in the last 50 years to try to undo those 2 million years. The trick is tricking our bodies and our thousands and thousands of years of evolution. Never go too low with your calories because your body..for its survival..has evolved the skills of slowing down its metabolism to burn less, while increasing your cravings to get you to eat.
Its seen in all animals, not just humans. Ask any cat owner- Cat food with poor protein levels keep the cat eating and eating and eating (and eating) while it tries to get the proper nutrition it needs, so the cat gets fat because its on a nutritional deficit and not getting enough protein. Humans do exactly the same. So begin with protein every time. There is an ideal but narrow calorie window in which you lose weight but not so low that you trigger starvation mode. Yo-yo dieting is a no-no, since it it makes your calories too low so that your body responds you into gaining it all back while slowing your metabolism, every time. Crash diets fail for the same reason, your body slows its metabolic rate down when you go too low, and when you go off the diet, your evolution forces binge cravings and gain it all back. Absolutely biology.
Get enough protein first, and keep your calories JUST under break-even, and it will curve your carb cravings and midnight raids without kicking you into starvation mode, so that your weight loss lasts.
Wow... woo's as well for you. I hope the person who is doing it will post their ideas.
There are lots of people on the site who think "woo" means "woo-hoo!" (good for you!) I'm in a team competition and whenever somebody does something good, a few people insist on clicking the woo button to celebrate it. LOL. So maybe it's just someone praising everyone? 0
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