Late night eating! Help!!!

What works for me is I have no snacks in the house. I have no already prepared foods. I have food but it has to be cooked or a lot of work. I am at goal but I have no will power at night. It's hard.

That doesn't realy work for m bc I have a 15 year old who is comstantly wanting something to eat! Lol. I have however started putting all his and my husband junk food in 1 drawer that I band myself from!

I certainly have foods that sing to me when I'm feeling munchy. (Good news is that 3+ years post-op I hear those songs less often than I used to, thanks to my practicing better and better habits.)

Anyway, I applaud your idea of making it harder to get to those singing foods. In my case I just don't buy them -- no 15-year-olds in this house ;). Or I keep them in the basement refrigerator. For some reason, I'm MUCH less prone to go all the way downstairs to get to "the good stuff."

Some people I know put a lock on a cabinet where their housemates keep their own stashes.

I think we just have to practice living differently than we used to live. Not a simple thing to do. And sometimes not easy at all. But over time new habits and instincts and behaviors CAN be built. The more consistently I practice the good behaviors, the easier it is to avoid the old behaviors.

I wish I had some magic to offer. That's all I got now.

Best wishes to you!

I never thought of putting them downstair!! That's a great idea. I hardly ever go down there unless I need to do laundry. Plus that is where my 15 year olds room is, which he never comes out of. Lol

I realized post-op that I spent so much of my life focusing on food that many of my interests fell to the wayside. I asked myself what my hobbies were and I was dumbfounded! I love to read but had stopped reading years ago. I stopped crocheting, doing sports, etc. All sorts of things I had loved and adored were traded for eating.

You also might just be hungry or thirsty. Does drinking help? If drinking doesn't help, may just be you need to eat later or adjust your schedule as was mentioned.

In order to fix it, I would 1) replace the behavior rather than omitting it, as then it's less likely to occur short-term and 2) figure out the cause so long-term you can change the habit.