Health Link: Looking to gain muscle? Buy Meet You In The Kitchen At 3am?
By Groovybabe • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: all, being motivated, diet, diet management, eating healthily, exercise, food, gym, healthA couple of months ago I talked about my night time eating. It was a problem then and it is still a problem now. This is intensified by the fact that I suffer from insomnia. But I tend to wake up in the night and half-consciously go and eat, go back to bed, wake up a couple of hours later and repeat the behaviour. This can happen between 2-4 times per night and I don’t know why. I am being so good in the day time and yet including my night time eating I am only just maintaining my weight. I have tried everything I can think of to counter this behaviour. It happens more on sleeping tablets than off then but it is a rare night I don’t eat at all.
I was chatting to my cousin about this at lunch time today. She suffers from it too, we both agreed our rate of loss would be better if we could combat this. We have tried telling ourselves not to do it before going to sleep, having only healthy food around, eating before going to bed, having breakfast but nothing solves it. So I was wondering if any of you have suffered with this and overcome it and if you did and have how did you get past it?
I went to the gym again today. I am so glad I am back into working out, it makes me feel so good. I ran for 10 minutes today and found it fairly easy to do so. I felt so great afterwards, and the weight training is making me feel stronger again.
I eat too much bread, out of all my food vices this is by far the worst. I have gotten into the habit in the last week or so of having a one-egg omelette inside a wholemeal pitta bread, coupled with margarine, this becomes quite calorific. Today I decided to forego the pitta and I had the omelette with a side salad I prepared instead and over halved the calories involved. I felt better for it too. My son is on summer holidays now so I do not need to buy bread for the next 6 weeks, so once the bread we have has gone I am going to try not to eat it at all for a while. It might help de-bloat me if nothing else. What is your food vice?
Groovybabe is 14.9 stones today and has lost 2lbs at her last weigh in.
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I suffered from this for years. I also suffer from insomnia. It was disgusting! I was so ashamed of myself. I wish that I could tell you how I stopped doing it., like in the magic cure. I haven’t done it in a few years now. I just finally got to the point that if I woke up the kitchen was off limits. I can not go in there period. Unfortunately, now that I don’t binge at night I have a hard time during the waking hours especially BEFORE I go to bed. So I guess I have just traded one for the other.
So, out of all that, I guess my suggestion is to make it off limits at night. If you wake up, either suffer in bed until you do fall asleep, or get on the computer, etc. Something to take your mind off eating. Hope this helps!
I do suffer from insomnia on occasion, but I usually don’t really eat that much at night. Maybe it would help if you had plenty of fruits available to eat for night-time snacking. That way you could eat something, but you wouldn’t feel guilty about it.
Thank you guys. This is going to be a struggle for me but I am determined to overcome it.