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..

I know a guy who cannot say no to something if it's in his home, so every day after work he buys the groceries he needs for that day only and keeps his cupboards otherwise empty. He buys stuff for breakfast but leaves it at work. Extreme, but he finds it to be necessary - and it certainly worked! He lost a ton of weight.

I also have the same issue. I thought mine was due to Hormones. But Im not sure. Just that every night between 2-5 Im going to be awake at least 2 times to eat. I feel like im sooooo hungry from protein during those hours. I eat peanut butter or cheese then go back to bed.

I also try to do a work around with my Calories, to make sure I have a few extra to make up for this.

I feel relieved knowing that I'm not the only one that does this though!

It happens to me even if I have plenty of Cal's fat and protein. Not sure why. I may have had over 100-125 grams of protein, and not exercise that day and still crave the protein in the middle of the night.

I understand that some are on a heavy exercise regimen and their bodies demand more during the day or they will be hungry at night. But this has been happening about 5 years for me and when it started it started all at once. I have tried to break it many many times. I will not sleep if I don't get protein in the middle of the night. I tried really forcing the correction a year ago. After I would wake up it would be 6 am before I would fall asleep again. I did that for 7 days... So I decided for what ever reason this is how my body is wired, and found a way to work around it. It keeps me from driving my self nuts about it. And also as long as I maintain, or loose when I wan to loose, I have come to terms with it.

youcandoitjess Re the Ambein> OMG I cant take that stuff. I know what you mean about finding things eaten or around the house eaten, My daughter caught me sleep walking and talking one night. I thought I was in bed dreaming. I remember even thinking I would get my key and go to the store.

After that I heard a News story about people eating whole slabs of raw bacon, and other stuff. And Driving while asleep. On Ambein.