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do you eat at night ?
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Late night eating is a terrible problem for most dieters. Many people maintain good diets during the day only to blow it late at night. Below are 9 tips to curb late night eating.
1. Be sure to eat 3 good meals during the day with 1 or 2 between meal snacks. Most people try to eat too few calories during the day only to binge late at night. A good insurance policy is to eat most of your calories before 6 PM.
2. When you feel the urge to eat late at night, try drinking 2 or more cups of water. You can also make a cup of herbal tea sweeten with honey or artificial sugar. Hot liquids have a soothing effect on emotions and appetite.
3. Remind yourself that it's normal to feel hungry late at night due to habitually eating late. Breaking this habit is like learning to quit smoking. Remind yourself of your goal to lose 20 or 30 pounds and the key to losing this weight is to STOP late night eating.
4. Much of late night eating after dinner can be avoided by hiding the junk food. Put foods that you're prone to eat late at night out of sight. Better yet, don't buy junk food at all, though this may not be possible if you have kids.
5. Suck on hard candy. Most hard candy have only a few calories and they give you the satisfaction of snacking.
6. Keep a written copy of your diet plan in view, which will keep your goal of losing weight firmly fixed in your mind. The temptation to snack late at night will not be as great if you don't give into the urge for several weeks.
7. Some people have great success by simply brushing their teeth late at night. This method has been known to curb late night eating for many people.
8. The most vulnerable time for eating late is 1 hour after dinner right up to bedtime. Keep your life interesting by working on a favorite hobby and NOT watching TV. The ads on TV can subconsciously trigger the impulse to eat. Boredom is your biggest danger to late night eating.
9. Psyche yourself for the battle. You know that you will feel tempted to snack late at night. It's an artificial feeling that will go away when you go to bed. The next morning, you probably won't be hungry .... eat breakfast anyway .... it's the most important meal of the day.
1. Be sure to eat 3 good meals during the day with 1 or 2 between meal snacks. Most people try to eat too few calories during the day only to binge late at night. A good insurance policy is to eat most of your calories before 6 PM.
2. When you feel the urge to eat late at night, try drinking 2 or more cups of water. You can also make a cup of herbal tea sweeten with honey or artificial sugar. Hot liquids have a soothing effect on emotions and appetite.
3. Remind yourself that it's normal to feel hungry late at night due to habitually eating late. Breaking this habit is like learning to quit smoking. Remind yourself of your goal to lose 20 or 30 pounds and the key to losing this weight is to STOP late night eating.
4. Much of late night eating after dinner can be avoided by hiding the junk food. Put foods that you're prone to eat late at night out of sight. Better yet, don't buy junk food at all, though this may not be possible if you have kids.
5. Suck on hard candy. Most hard candy have only a few calories and they give you the satisfaction of snacking.
6. Keep a written copy of your diet plan in view, which will keep your goal of losing weight firmly fixed in your mind. The temptation to snack late at night will not be as great if you don't give into the urge for several weeks.
7. Some people have great success by simply brushing their teeth late at night. This method has been known to curb late night eating for many people.
8. The most vulnerable time for eating late is 1 hour after dinner right up to bedtime. Keep your life interesting by working on a favorite hobby and NOT watching TV. The ads on TV can subconsciously trigger the impulse to eat. Boredom is your biggest danger to late night eating.
9. Psyche yourself for the battle. You know that you will feel tempted to snack late at night. It's an artificial feeling that will go away when you go to bed. The next morning, you probably won't be hungry .... eat breakfast anyway .... it's the most important meal of the day.
If you just sleep after you eat the it's a bad habbit. But if you're working at night or doing something tiring, i think it's just fine to eat. I eat at night, late night. But not always. But most are just junk foods though. Not really heavy on the tummy.
No i do not eat at night. If you have such habits i suggest you to leave such habits . It is a very bad habit and do not create such habit sometimes it creates problem as well.
You are asking me about that? Hey, I thought you are going to tell me some thing about that. Actually I work till late at nights and feel hungry after some time. Therefore I have developed this habit of eating at night, but I have not felt any bad effects of the same.
I don't think it is a bad habit. It's depand on our job. If some one will free in late night with his job. Than it is complusion for him to take meal in night.
I do not know that it is bad. I do eat at night if I'm hungry. I think eating before going to sleep is the bad habit but eating at night I think is not. Especially if you're not going to sleep after you eat. What if the case is you have work at night? Why would eating at night become bad? I really think eating before going to bed is the one bad habit. Because you might get choke while sleeping and there's a possibility that you don't know that you're choke because you're sleeping so won't be able to breathe that is why it's bad.
ezzy said:
Try to eat 3 meals during the day time.
When you feel hungry in the late night try to drink water than taking food or you can have herbal tea et.,
Remind yourself that latenight eating habit is bad and develop will power to avoid it.
Try foods high in protein before bed and at night. Avoid foods high in carbs because they might end up being stored as fat because you aren't active at night.
cheeses are good pre-bed for their protein content you could also have fruit or veggies since they are low fat, low carb
hope this was helpful
cheeses are good pre-bed for their protein content you could also have fruit or veggies since they are low fat, low carb
hope this was helpful
Maybe to avoid that habbit is to eat more in the dinner so that you wont eat anymore. or try to make yourself busy so you will forget the eating habit.
Yes. I am eating at night. It is what you call "midnight snack". I use to eat potato chips or Pop corns , since I am doing movie marathon at night especially Friday.
It's my problem too, I am not used to skipping meals in a day. But there are some tricks we can do that even we eat won't hurt our stomach. I can do well with a sliced carrots, turnip and cucumber. It gives a feeling of fullness and yet healthy.
Night eating syndrome, or NES, is an emerging eating disorder diagnosis, which primarily characterizes an ongoing, persistent pattern of late-night binge eating.[1][2] NES was originally described by Dr Albert Stunkard in 1955[3] and is currently proposed for inclusion in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
I eat every time I come home from work. And even if its after dinner or midnight, I always look for something to eat. I can munch anything before going to bed.
Yeapp , even if im noot fatty i eat at night cuz i eat often and andd i eat little ,even if
i know that eating at night it is noot good for the health i cant stoop eating something at night.
i know that eating at night it is noot good for the health i cant stoop eating something at night.
I have got two things will help, eventhough neither will probably seem like a reasonable solution. But these do work for me. First i use chewing tobacco which has a tendency to kill my appetite. Understandably you probably don't want to fix one problem by starting another problem. Second though I try to go to sleep at a reasonable time. Most nights i am asleep before i get the urge to start eating again.
