tips on how to stop late night bingeing?

have a vegetables or a fruit to calm your hungry, if you like lemon water, lemon is a good suppressor to hunger also brush your teeth when you feel like eating. thats all i got.

Just to add from looking at your diary... you are always way under protein. Try increasing your protein which should curb nightime hunger.

Just to add from looking at your diary... you are always way under protein. Try increasing your protein which should curb nightime hunger.

I was going to say the same. Evaluate your diary. If you are starving a few hours after going to bed, you aren't fueling correctly or enough during the day. If you are still hungry, by all means, get a snack! Your body is telling you it needs fuel. Just make sure you keep healthy snacks around - a little peanut butter and fruit or veggies is a good snack with protein, fats and carbs to keep you full.

dont get out of bed or go to bed lol, it s working for me and i eat breakfast that way also, meaning if i go to bed earlier, then i get up earlier and eat breakfast. if i binge i stay up all night cause of the sugars and dont eat a good breakfast

Just to add from looking at your diary... you are always way under protein. Try increasing your protein which should curb nightime hunger.

And how do you suppose I have more than 120 grams of protein per day? Plus, protein is kinda expensive...

120 grams of protein is likely enough protein for the day for you.

Holy cow! While working out is GREAT, give your body a rest. I looked through your diary and you are burning 700-1500 calories in exercise per day, almost every day. I stand by my previous statement. I know this from experience (at least for me). I was eating 500 too few in a day and this was my problem. By the time evening rolled around, it was a constant struggle to stop the binging. What your magic number is, I don't know but I would start with cutting back a little in exercise and increasing calories. Your body needs more based on how much you are exercising. JMO of course, I am no doctor.

I'm on Mirtazipine\zispin and this makes me feel hungry in the night and makes me crave naughty foods. Find only way around it is not to have junk in the house so if it happens atleast its something healthy! I also try to have a couple hundred calories left so if it happens I log as I eat and it stops me from going over my calories most of the time or atleast not far over. If like me a lot of thr time its not because you actually feel hungry the only way is to not have unhealthy foods in. I have kids but everything I have in is healthy or has to be cooked from scratch usually. I also usually have 100 calorie snacks in so I can have 1 or 2 of those if I need to. Things I like but know I probably won't binge on them... Like bags of popcorn. Hope this helps a little x

I don't have this problem any more because every night when i head to bed, I take my nighttime snack with me which usually consist of 30 Almonds and a glass of 1% chocolate milk.... It fills me up, takes care of my low sugars (type 2 diabetic) and keeps me from needing to go raid the fridge at 3 in the morning....... there is no rule you can't eat right at bedtime just needs to fit it into your caloric intake for the day...... Good Luck.......

I had the same problem except I wasn't going to bed at all. I would be up until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning watching tv. After gaining 60 lbs I finally went to my Dr. He put me on something to help me sleep. In the first month I lost 20 lbs. I was able to stop taking the sleep meds but still wake up at night. If I want to eat something, I drink a glass of water. The only bad thing about that is I always wake up a couple hours later to use the bathroom. I've also tried eating a cheese stick before bed to help curb the hunger. My favorite brand is Sargento's light. They are only 50 calories. Also maybe a piece of jerky. Good luck.

Wow--your last post was very telling. Sounds like the eating is more stress-related than hungry related. I'm struggling with binge eating episodes right now that are directly linked to major job-induced anxiety. Perhaps confronting the stress and finding ways to manage it might curb your binging. A couple books you might like to check out--Mindful Eating and the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook. I'm still working through them myself, but they do seem to be helpful. I'm less likely to go into that "auto-pilot" mindset that allows me to eat mindlessly. Good luck to you! I know how the binging how induce even more stress! Nasty cycle.

I usually crave something sweet at night. So it's either peppermint tea (peppermint is a natural hunger/craving suppressant) or sugar free jello.

I take a water bottle to bed, whenever I go to bed I am slightly hungry but can still fall asleep. It is rare for me to wake up in the middle of the night starving, but the times I have I and just drank my water then laid there until I fell back to sleep. You will fall back to sleep. Its like breaking your child of waking up in the middle of the night for a bottle. you just got to cut it out or else you make it so every night you and your little one is getting back up to eat. Just force yourself to sleep and within a few days you wont be even waking up to eat.

The problem is, I don't think I AM even hungry half the time. And it was all good for a couple months as well, but now as a really hard week/month for me is coming up I have picked the habit back up and can't even seem to stop myself

If you are not hungry than don't get up to eat. YOU control what you do. YOU can make yourself stay in bed. Drink water and stay in bed. Go back to sleep. Read a book. Chew on a straw if you have to.