Late night eating! Help!!!

The post-it notes are a great idea, as is just avoiding whatever triggers your snacking for a while. This might mean no TV time. As a last minute resort, seaweed snacks and salted cucumber slices are very low calorie options that I reach for sometimes when I lose to head hunger. Pork rinds would be another reasonable option but I've never tried them.

It's so funny you said that about pork rinds. I tried them today for the frst time! I ran into Dollar Tree for some last minute things and I was starving ( I know dom't go shopping when your hungry! Lol). I got the bbq ones and they were actually pretty good. I recommend trying them. They might be high in carbs tho, I need to check.

They have virtually zero grams of carb which is why they are such a good option

You could try having a nice herbal tea after dinner - something with a lot of flavour so you feel like you're having a treat. David's and Teavana have lots of concoctions that taste like sinful deserts. My favourite right now is a mint chip tea from Davids - with a squirt of liquid Splenda it tastes like my favourite ice cream flavour and is virtually calorie free.

I eat dinner really late, like 8:30 or 9, so I can avoid night snacking. So, breakfast is 10 or 10:30, lunch is 2:30 or 3, dinner is 8:30 or 9.

Also, I used to snack on dill pickles at night. Delicious, crunchy, low carb and low calorie!

I'm allowed healthy snacks, so I just make sure whatever I eat is high protein/low carb. For snack, I often choose one of these: Babybel light cheese or a cheese string (whichever was on sale that week, lol), a pepperette, some beef jerky, 3 pickles, 5 cherry tomatoes with salt and pepper. If I'm craving something sweet I'll have half a cup of watermelon or a quarter cup of berries.

I am also allowed nuts but i tried them once and they triggered intense cravings for more so I never bought them again. Try to figure out what you can safely eat without triggering cravings, and you should be OK.

I space my meals and snacks out by 4-5 hours.

I hope that helps a bit.

I was a heavy snacker before WLS, but managed to change my ways. My nutritionist said "absolutely NO snacking"! I didn't think I could do it, but its possible. I found a great little pass-the-time coloring. I went out to Barnes and Noble and bought some coloring books and pencils. This really did help me to stop my snacking at night! Good luck.

Sometimes when you think you're hungry, you're actually thirsty. Before you hit the pantry, snag something to drink! Flavored water can be a great help, other people enjoy some tea before bed.

I make myself a really sinful big cup of decaf coffee with 2 ounces of frothed Fairlife protein milk, and whatever sugar free flavoring catches my interest at the time (right now, the salted caramel mocha is my fav)... it makes me feel like I'm having a yummy treat, with only something like 40 calories.

You'll have to find what works for you best, though.

And there are other days that, even with the decaf latte, I fail miserably... sigh.

I am 9+ years post op. Before RNY I was late night eater. Post op I tried to change it. And I did for a few years. I really tried. I did not like early breakfast before RNY and I hated I had to eat early post op. But I made myself do it. I still often wanted to snack late. And often I did.

Eventually I decide to to what my body likes - I eat late dinner, maybe even late snack before bed (it keeps my BS stable at night) then I eat "breakfast" later during the day, or start with day lunch at 11 or 12.