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Old 05-23-2008, 04:54 PM   #1
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Is it just me or do you feel like all day you have been so good and stuck to your diet goals and then all of a sudden at night it seems like an uncontrollable hunger comes over you? Sometimes your not even hungry, just bored, or anxious, tired, etc. This seems to be the absolute worst for me. Every diet or person you talk to tells you that you shouldn't eat past a certain time or at least 3 hours before you go to sleep because it lays in your stomach, so i feel so guilty after i go a little crazy at night. Anybody have any advice on how to cure the nightmare terrors? I try to go to sleep, or distractions, diet soda sometimes helps...but any advice would help? come on ladies help me out!!!
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Old 05-24-2008, 04:08 AM   #2
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Control, Control, Control.

It's hard.

You are more than likely pre-occupied during the day right?

Working, then at night your bored.

Add more vegetables or salad to your meals at night so it fills you up then down a glass of water on top at the end.

Your stomach shouldn't want anything else after filling yourself up on good things.

If your hungry after, go for a jelly, with fruit.. or a handlful of nuts and read a book, spoil yourself, paint your nails, just keep finding things to make you busy.

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Old 05-24-2008, 04:23 AM   #3
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Sometimes just chewing gum has helped me.
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Old 06-07-2008, 08:45 PM   #4
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To Fallen1 I find evenings the hardest too as it is the time I have for myself and to myself once the kids are in bed and it feels like you want to treat yourself and there are less distractions. I am conquering it though and agree with all the strategies the other writter suggested. In addition to this I find other ways to treat myself and enjoy this 'my' time. I might give myself a facial, paint my nails, have a long relaxing bath etc so these are treats to myself that make me feel good not bad afterwards, as would chocolate biscuits. If you do feel the need to be munching on something having chopped up veggies in the fridge. the chewing gum idea is good. Also is drinking water or if you want to crunch on something a cup of ice cubes or dilluted sugar free juice made into ice cubes is very refreshing. If I am reading a book I will go and read it in bed as my bed room is a no food zone. Another thing I do is I will clean my teeth early in the evening usually when the kids clean theirs before they go to bed. this seems to psychologically signal the end of eating for that day, it is a way of drawing a limit/boundary to signal the end of food for the day as your mouth feels really fresh.
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Old 07-03-2008, 08:17 PM   #5
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Default drink water...

I have the same problem, just get crazy a bit before going to bed, and eat soya crosps or chocolate.
to stop doing that, I just try to control myself, and drink a lot of water. That's fine if you have water in your stomach all night while it's bad if that's chocolate...
Ty to have enough water to fill you enough, and then you won't feel the need to eat something anymore.
And water's good for your body anyway
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When i am doing good, like the last 4 days, I just think "this is good, I can endure the littlle hunger or boredom I feel because I am going to bed soon and if I give myself to not eating what I know I should't I will wake up in just a few hours and be that much thinner!". Hope this helps you
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Same thing happenes to me.

I have a cup of tea or decaf coffee.

A good snack to have is a small bowl of Special k cereal.

Nothing beats water though you are sure not to add on any extra pounds with water PLUS it fills you up!
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