Late-Night Face Stuffing

totally am a midnight food cabinet monster! I NEED TIPS TOO! haha. My nutritionist told me to make myself eat more in the morning...I'm workin on it

I eat a ton at night.

My solution is to eat less during the day so that I still hit my daily targets.

Today for example, I had creamer in my coffee and that was it for calories until about 1:30pm. Had an apple and some whey protein.

Then I had about 1800 calories in the past couple hours.

Feels awesome, but it's not for everyone.

I have this problem too. At night, after the kids go to bed. I can completely blow a great day all after 9pm.

I eat 5 meals a day, and one is at bedtime. Usually the bedtime meal includes a casein/hemp protein shake.

Me too. I take a sleeping pill right before dinner. then i eat dinner. that way im too tired and i go to bed before i can mindlessly eat cuz im a cow. i usually eat about 2000 cals at night. knocking myself out is the only way to avoid it. good luck

I deal with the same issue- I stay up too late and eat out of boredum.... trying to switch my whole routine around and become more of a morning person. Hoping that going to bed earlier can help with the late night snacking.

Intermittent fasting...I stuff my face every night and am losing 2-3lb/wk doing so

^ For those not aware, look up intermittent fasting or leangains.com. Martin Berkhan knows his **** and if anything, it will open your mind up to the concept of short feed windows, where deficit eating doesn't feel like a deficit.

It's NOT for everonye, but it's something worth knowing and trying.

Intermittent fasting...I stuff my face every night and am losing 2-3lb/wk doing so

this, except I just started and only lost a pound so far.......

What I've done is a little extreme but it seems to be working so far. *****NOT FOR EVERYONE*****

I'm doing this: http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html

Basically I'm skipping breakfast. Now I love big breakfasts, but since I am only allowed 1660 a day and I don't exercise every day, I was ending up with only 400 calories for supper and snack. So I decided to try the fasting approach wherein I only eat between 11:30 in the morning and 8 pm at night. This leaves me with plenty of calories for the evening. Then I turn in around 10 because if I stay up any longer I will get hungry. The other night I stayed up to 1 am and cleaned out a container of cookies :blushing:

I have 40-50 calories for "breakfast" in the form of my fish oil, fiber tabs and coffee creamer. I got used to not eating until late morning and then I start grazing. I also drink a large diet soda every morning which is probably not a good idea. Anyway, I like this routine and come in under calories almost every day. Most importantly, I can feel satisfied at night when I want to eat the most.

Again, this approach is not for everyone, it was hard at first since I was never a breakfast skipper.

I can definatly relate. As a matter of fact I just had chips, Halloween candy and some cookies after having an awesome diet day. Go figure right? Well to answer your question I definatly see a difference in my "snacking" when I exercise sometime after dinner. And for me it doesn't have to be like a sweat-a-thon it could be playing some tennis...going for a walk or jog whatever. I ushually have a better diet day if I workout in the morning and do a fun workout after dinner to keep my mind off food. I mainly eat because it's there or I'm just plain bored.very rarely am I actually hungry. But if I'm active throughout the day I'm less likely to screw it up.

I don't keep unhealthy snacks in my house. I have gotten up in the middle of the night and am hungry so I might have some carrots or a piece of fruit or something that if I do eat, it won't ruin my diet. Good luck..