Do you go to bed hungry?

MooMooooo
MooMooooo Posts: 306 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I do (on a good day) but this is because I am used to eating at night. After dinner.

After nearly a year of dieting I am guessing this is always going to be the case... I still get hungry after dinner...
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  • btanton27
    btanton27 Posts: 186 Member
    i usually have some kind of snack an hour or so before bed.... i always get the munchies at night unless i had a huge dinner :) doesnt seem to be affecting my weight loss!
  • MooMooooo
    MooMooooo Posts: 306 Member
    A snack snowballs for me. I always overdo it.

    I'm an all or nothing kind of person. :(
  • Sidesteal
    Sidesteal Posts: 5,510 Member
    I usually go to bed full.
  • Jules2Be
    Jules2Be Posts: 2,238 Member
    Nope....i eat when i am hungry.
  • Impy84
    Impy84 Posts: 430
    Sometimes yes. Last night i did. Had my dinner salad around 8 by 930 i was feeling slightly hungry but i had water and went to bed around 10.
  • Hendrix7
    Hendrix7 Posts: 1,903 Member
    Nope never, If you are going to bed hungry all the time you need to look at some of your food choices
  • supplemama
    supplemama Posts: 1,956 Member
    No I do not go to bed hungry. I also do not eat after dinner. I just make sure to have a nice, filling dinner. Dinner is my biggest meal of the day.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,990 Member
    NEVER.

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  • joleen126
    joleen126 Posts: 7
    I am always going to bed hungry, even with a good (big) dinner. if i snack after 7pm my scale goes up, if i go with out snacking at night my scale goes down. Im so tired of it! im always hungry even with a healthy "balanced" diet and exercise.
  • thebaconbeast
    thebaconbeast Posts: 560 Member
    Never if I'm craving it I have to have it.
  • julieh391
    julieh391 Posts: 683 Member
    I usually save a couple hundred calories for after dinner, so I can have a snack. The crummy thing is that snack usually gets eaten too soon, I stay up to late, and want another snack. I usually don't eat right before bed and stay under my calories. Last night I was actually hungry and had a bowl of frosted mini wheats with skim milk. I went over, but not by a ton, and didn't feel guilty because my body was saying it needed food.
  • Jules2Be
    Jules2Be Posts: 2,238 Member
    Never if I'm craving it I have to have it.

    omw
  • thebaconbeast
    thebaconbeast Posts: 560 Member
    Never if I'm craving it I have to have it.

    omw

    On My Walrus ?
  • Bobby_Clerici
    Bobby_Clerici Posts: 1,828 Member
    That is my weakest time of day.
    I used to put everybody to bed, then creep down and eat supper all over again. I love that feeling of having eaten so much you just hurt. That's the best :drinker:

    Well, no wonder I was so fat.
    I've had to change everything, but I still need to eat before bed, or I'll wake up and binge like a government mule.
    My diary is open, so you can see for yourself, but I eat a snack before bed every night.
    I am not saying this is optimal, but it's my very best. Lost 76 lbs so far, so fear not.
    Just do your very best.
    All you can do is all you can do.
  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    No. I eat if I'm hungry, regardless of when it is. I just try and make sure it's something healthier like fruit, with protein or lower in cals. If I go to bed hungry, I'm STARVING before morning and I know my body doesn't like to be starving or my metabolism nose-dives. I know everyone is different but being hungry doesn't work for me!
  • BaDaSsBrUnEtTe
    BaDaSsBrUnEtTe Posts: 518 Member
    yes all the time. i dont eat after dinner which is around 6pm. like you im an all or nothing person too. drinking water helps or sometimes i make some green tea.
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    depends on the kind of hunger. sometimes I am hungry because I get little sleep and have been up 15+hours, smh. so I start eating at like 6 in the morning, but I'm up till almost midnight and have eaten all my calories for the day.

    under normal circumstances, if I eat around 7ish or 8, i'm fine if i go to sleep at like 10.

    my opinion, it's okay to go to bed hungry, but it's also okay to eat right before bed as well. your body is still working while your sleep (we breathe don't we) haha, so you're food will not magically turn to fat
  • MalSponseller
    MalSponseller Posts: 217 Member
    Almost always. I'm usually in bed by midnight, dinner around 5:30, I usually have some calories left over after dinner for a snack, which I try to have about 8 pm. But yes, always hungry when I go to bed.
  • momtokgo
    momtokgo Posts: 446 Member
    Nope. If I go to bed hungry, I get up nauseous in the morning. Not worth it, so I make sure I am full when I lay down at night.
  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    Nope. I eat a bowl of cereal before bed if I feel hungry.
  • MooMooooo
    MooMooooo Posts: 306 Member
    Nope never, If you are going to bed hungry all the time you need to look at some of your food choices

    I think I will. Thanks.

    Might start eating broccoli again and veges in general. Hope it helps. :)
  • here_I_go_again
    here_I_go_again Posts: 463 Member
    I usually go to bed hungry, that's just part of my plan. I read somewhere, can't remember where though, that's it's good to go bed hungry. Maybe it makes you want to eat breakfast more, I don't know, but for me it works out that way.:smile:
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    Never.
    I fast throughout the next day so i'm always going to be satiated.
    Keep in mind that food frequency has very little effect on weight loss.
    You can eat in bed and still lose weight as long as you are in a deficit.
    I ate 1/4 cheeseburger and a bowl of ice cream last night.
    I weighed before bed at 140lbs.
    This morning I did my usual wake up pee and weighed in at 135lbs.

    Moral of the story:
    If you dont like going to bed hungry then save some cals and eat up!
  • tlinval
    tlinval Posts: 175 Member
    I'm almost always hungry at bedtime. Like a previous poster said, nighttime snacking snowballs for me so I just don't allow it 99% of the time. I go to bed earlier now so I'm farther from the kitchen!
  • jaweiss1
    jaweiss1 Posts: 71 Member
    Try eating a few tablespoons of cottage cheese right before bed.
  • Rilke
    Rilke Posts: 1,201 Member
    Almost always :) I prefer it that way. I fast for 14 hours each day and I just function better if I place my eating window earlier rather than later.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    No. I can't sleep well if I'm hungry. That's the one time of day when I absolutely CANNOT be hungry.
  • mevalentina
    mevalentina Posts: 362 Member
    Hungry for what is the question? :( If the answer is man flesh then yes everynight...
  • milkyskinn
    milkyskinn Posts: 126 Member
    I can't sleep when I'm hungry, so I actually always have something between 10-11pm... usually have dinner at 5.30, so I always get hungry, and I actually save calories so that I can't go over my daily intake :)
    Also another reason is I usually workout at night too, so I really do need it!

    Heavy dinners won't work well for me 2hrs before working out, and neither does going without food for 16 hours or so because I'd be eating way too little that way every day.
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    No, if I go to bed hungry I find I cannot sleep, or wake up in the night.
    I eat a lot of my calories at dinner and beyond, since I tend not to go to bed until 2am or later.
    I have organix rice cakes, a large pear and a bowl of 0% Fage Yoghurt with some protein powder, seeds and flax mixed in between dinner and bed, and this also pretty much counts as my breakfast since I am rarely up before 10/11am. It is part of my routine now. Some evenings I am hungrier than others, usually if I have done a hefty dose of cycling.

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