Anyone else sleep eat?

Omgosh yes I did this for almost a week. I had never done this before! I would get up around 2am & go grab a handful of cheezits. I think my body was craving/needing more food though because it was right around the time when I was doing a lot of exercise and hadnt up'd my calorie intake.

My mother actually has this problem - she will get up, go to the kitchen make herself food (literally make a sandwich or cook something in the microwave), eat it, and go back to bed. She doesn't remember any of it the next day. I'm pretty sure it's a valid psychological condition, like sleep walking.

i do once in a while but I noticed its if I dont eat dinner Friday night I fell asleep on the couch and woke up and had two peanut butter sandwiches on aronold thins and a hard boiled egg I knew I was doing it but before I had the change to stop myself I had woofed down all that in about10 minutes :blushing: :sad: :explode:

I have been a sleep eater since I was a teenager, and it usually surfaces when I have been seriously cutting calories. Sometimes I remember in the morning, sometimes I just find evidence. Once I woke up to discover I was sitting in my bed eating ice cream out of the carton with a fork. Another time I guess I actually pulled a chair up to the refrigerator and was eating lasagne out of it with my bare hands. (My then boyfriend, now husband told me the next day. I had made him the lasagne for his birthday. You know it's true love when someone sticks around after that!
So no, you're not alone. It sure is frustrating isn't it???

yep-I usually wake up with food in my bed!! no memory of getting it!

I used to have this problem when I took ambien. I would make a meal, or usually eat something sweet, and not realize it until I woke up in the morning and saw my kitchen. I went off the ambien a while back and haven't had that problem since (Whew!)

Same thing happened to me when I had to ambien! Didn't know I had been up eating cereal during the night till the next morning and there is the bowl with a tiny bit of milk in it and the (still) opened box of cereal next to it...... :noway:

I don't take any medication and this happened to me! I work up at 4 in the morning and ate 2 russell stovers coconut cream eggs. lol

If you have a history of sleepwalking, it's probably related, though if it recently surfaced, I would suggest that you eat something with a longer sustainability before going to bed.

When I first started trying to manipulate my calories on here, and increased to eating every 2 hours, my body literally woke me up to make food because I was that hungry. You have to keep in mind your habits, and adjust to eating for them over the time you sleep. I know some people that keep fruit, peanut butter, crackers... such things... by the bed for those moments.

Just remember, it's not terrible to eat before you go to bed, as long as you don't cause yourself heartburn.

Another work around could be keeping small snacks in the room so if you say, get up to go to the bathroom, you have a little snack when you do.

Me, I am a sleep walker and talker and it arises with stress more than anything. Last week, my BodyMedia showed a couple nights where I didn't sleep more than 30% of the night. That worried me because I didn't know if I was walking around, or just moving. When I notice these things, though, I make sure to lock doors before going to bed.

yep-I usually wake up with food in my bed!! no memory of getting it!

this might be why you are not hungry for breakfast. I am also a sleep eater. I have to try and use "detective work" to log the calories I ate at night. Last night it was pbj 3 TIMES at half a sandwich each time. And I HATE peanut butter. Have since I was a kid. Anyways, sometimes it is frustrating when it adds up to 500+ calories. It can take a chuck out of my day. I wish calories you consumed while sleeping didnt count lol. I have also eaten icecream with a fork in bed. Sometimes I wake up with a crust of a sandwich on my pillow and peanut butter all over my face. One solution I have found to work for me sometimes is to keep low calorie snacks available and try to avoid keeping things that I gravitate to while sleeping, like high fat, hi calorie hi carb foods. I have found fat free sugar free pudding works, as does easy to chew protein bars, fat free yogurt (that works cuz it would take 5 yogurts to equal the peanut butter sandwiches I ate last night) And in answer to someone elses post if it is cronic over a life time like it is for me and some other people it is a disorder a long the lines sleep walking. Especially when you dont remember even doing it. or you eat things that you dont even like or hate. Some people have it so bad they even eat stuff that is not even food.

You are a sleepwalker. My son is one too, but he has never made a meal or eaten while sleeping. But he has taken things like knick knacks, phone chargers and things like that and moved them to another room. Or hide them in his own room. When you ask him if he'd seen them he says no and is totally floored when I find them in his drawer! I have seen him sleepwalk. His eyes are open but he can't comprehend anything you say to him. I just have to let him do whatever until he goes back to bed.

It's really strange.

There is a simple solution: use a combination lock for all the food items you do not want to be sleep eating.

unless you are a renter and cant damage the cupboards that way or the fridge appliance like I am Plus the kids have to be able to get up and make their breakfast before going to school

It's also not a simple solution because you'd have to not know the combinations to guarantee that it would work. That information is stored in the brain, awake or not, and could be just as easily accessed.

It's a BETTER solution to review your medications and concerns with a doctor. They may be able to develop a plan, or have a sleep study done to determine just what's going on when you get up and do this.

When I was a child, I would sleepwalk after supposed nightmares and go rock myself in the rocking chair for 10 minutes. It really can be an acute response to emotional and/or physical stress.

Hi, I have been struggling with this for over a year. I have probably had fewer than 20 nights or so through which I slept the whole night without waking up and "needing" to have a snack. I am conscious, to an extent. I remember it the next morning pretty well, and I log it even while it is happening. I think I am thirsty, I work out lots and don't drink enough water, but I also have a history of restrictive eating. But this just cropped up for me around wedding planning time and I thought it would go away when I got married but it did not, it is a habit now. I normally go for carbs -- toast with honey or fruit. Sometimes I will add PB or cheese so at least I get some protein in there so I don't have to eat so much later. Sometimes I wake up two or three times and do this. I have sought help on some levels but not medical assistance yet. I do not want to take pills. I just want it to go away.