Curbing hunger at night

A tablespoon of healthy peanut butter or cream cheese on a stalk of celery is enough to help me.
Or, I drink a glass of milk.
I usually save some calories for night because it happens to me often.

If you are running low on calories - cucumbers are very low in calories and can be filling. Maybe try cucumbers
with some hummus.

Stay away from breads and sugary foods as they make you feel hungry.

Regarding the OP:

I would suggest eating less during the day and save more calories for night time so that you can freely eat more at night and stay at the same end-of-day calorie/macro intake. If this still causes problems, I'd look at satiety on a per-meal basis and see if you can select foods that keep you full for longer periods of time.


Regarding skipping meals, you can go for a day or two without issues. Skipping breakfast is perfectly harmless metabolically speaking. The whole concept of eating frequently to stoke your metabolism has been debunked readily.

I wrote a detailed and referenced post on this, but I'll be damned if I can find it. LOL.

Let's write a book.


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And to the op, there's tons of good ideas on things to eat at nite. I got this one from a guy that lost like 150lbs. Eat sugar free jello at nite if your worried about going over your calories. It has almost zero calories and it's very filling.

LoL

And if your exercising you should never skip breakfast.

There is no evidence to support this. I've done it for years.


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yeah, but look at you! you've burned through all your muscle!

Lol, it's so funny when people ask me what my nutrition is like and then when I tell them the look on their faces are priceless! That I can eat fast food a couple of times a week, that I don't adhere to the several meals a day broscience, that I eat well into late in the evening and that I skip breakfast and still maintain a great physique appalls them because of all the misinformation they here from other trainers and their "healthy" friends. Granted my genetics help out some, but I eat the way I do based on the research I've read about and not based on hearsay from the fitness industry. Consequently, my clientele is off the hook and I have one of the best "results" records to back me compared to a lot of my peers who follow old redundant fallacies of weight loss from days of yore.


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Ninerbuff, so eating 4-5 meals a day is broscience?
Since your handle is football related I will use the following article as an example, it includes the daily meal plan for the players of the NY. Jets and was implemented by the teams Nutritionist Dr. Tom Bilella C.C.N. (Dr. Tom Bilella is an expert in metabolic nutrition and a leading authority in exercise & nutrition, nutritional medicine, and training).
and is very detailed down to what and how his players eat (It varies depending on the individual player) and down to the minute of when they should eat . The arcticle is located on page 80 of Muscle & Fitness NFL Training Issue called """""""" Jets Fuel, New York Jets Nutrtionist Dr. Tom Bilella, C.C.N. Shows You How To Eat For Maximum Performance."""" """"""Breakfast first thing in the morning then the players eat a meal every 2-3 hours (depending on the player) throughout the day, even on day days they do not train, to keep the body from going into a catabolic state. While post-workouts is the anabolic phase, the "growth phase" spans from workout to workout., and the goal is to maintain an anabolic environment by getting frequent feedings during the day, Bilella says, "One of the big buzzwords in sports nutrition is nutrient timing- staying in an anabolic state, whether that be pre-exercise, during,after or at other times of the day."""""

Now I apologize but Im gonna have to go with the opinion of an actual Dr. that is also an expert in metabolic nutrition and a leading authority in exercise & nutrition, nutritional medicine, and training.
And by the way, in charge of the diets of each and every player on the NY. Jets (some of the best athletes in the world and worth millions of dollars) than the opinion of a PT. that just has an NFL team's name in his handle.

I battled this for years, then solved my problem by switching to the leangains eating pattern. I was never really hungry for breakfast etc, so I now eat all my calories between 2 and 10pm. It means I can eat a larger dinner and snack in the evening which suits my hunger patterns. And I have lost weight on the same number of calories so its been a win win for me! And according to body composition analysis the vast majority has been fat loss, not muscle.

Try going to sleep! :drinker:

boring but it works

I agree with kkbecker12 - brushing your teeth really does help!

But if you're really hungry, have a little snack. My faves are extra light cheese spread triangles, cottage cheese and crab sticks.

well its 3 am here and I'm about to eat some hard boiled eggs. I am not fighting my growling tummy because if I do it will win

Ninerbuff, so eating 4-5 meals a day is broscience?
Since your handle is football related I will use the following article as an example, it includes the daily meal plan for the players of the NY. Jets and was implemented by the teams Nutritionist Dr. Tom Bilella C.C.N. (Dr. Tom Bilella is an expert in metabolic nutrition and a leading authority in exercise & nutrition, nutritional medicine, and training).
and is very detailed down to what and how his players eat (It varies depending on the individual player) and down to the minute of when they should eat . The arcticle is located on page 80 of Muscle & Fitness NFL Training Issue called """""""" Jets Fuel, New York Jets Nutrtionist Dr. Tom Bilella, C.C.N. Shows You How To Eat For Maximum Performance."""" """"""Breakfast first thing in the morning then the players eat a meal every 2-3 hours (depending on the player) throughout the day, even on day days they do not train, to keep the body from going into a catabolic state. While post-workouts is the anabolic phase, the "growth phase" spans from workout to workout., and the goal is to maintain an anabolic environment by getting frequent feedings during the day, Bilella says, "One of the big buzzwords in sports nutrition is nutrient timing- staying in an anabolic state, whether that be pre-exercise, during,after or at other times of the day."""""

Now I apologize but Im gonna have to go with the opinion of an actual Dr. that is also an expert in metabolic nutrition and a leading authority in exercise & nutrition, nutritional medicine, and training.
And by the way, in charge of the diets of each and every player on the NY. Jets (some of the best athletes in the world and worth millions of dollars) than the opinion of a PT. that just has an NFL team's name in his handle.

This was pretty much the universal opinion of 99% of the fitness expert 10 years ago. New studies pretty much have debunked these myths.

A lot of these "old school" fitness expert had to just swallow their pride and move on. These expert are now giving sound advice.

Those that are too proud to admit that the old way of thinking was wrong are now stuck in the stone ages.