Night eating.....what's up with that.

Well here it is,god I cant belive I am saying this. I am wakeing up in the middle of the night eating. The strange thing is that I dont always do it. I just have this overwelming urge to eat when I wake up in the night. I dont really crave anything but I end up eating thing's like peanut butter  out the jar and the kid's snack's even whip cream. I do feel better and go right back to bed. I dont think that it's that I am really hungry. I have a wonderful life these day's and know it's not emotional. I am soooo embarrised about this. I know I really need to start talking about this cuss these are extra calories that I a, taking in. I have worked so hard to get this weight off and cant gain it all back. PLEASE let me know if you do this too. I feel so blessed to have this forem to say the thing's I need to say.

Hello! No honey  you are not the only one. I do it also i am like you i dont be hungrey my thing is i see it and want it just becasue it is there. Now i have started like when i get up just grabing me a banana, strawberry's are some grapes but not to many grapes because they hold water. Those are just some of the fruits that make you feel full. So you are not by yourself. Just last night about 1:30am i got me a small bowl of greens and a very small piece of cornbread.

wow, i suddenly feel so much better! i do exactly the same thing!! my kids aren't snacking so much anymore, cause i'm eating everything there is at night! i wake up 1-3 times every night to eat. i also don't crave anything in particular, sometimes i can get myself to just have a cup of tea, but usually i eat whatever is in sight!  i also don't know what to do. i am trying not to buy any unhealthy things, so that my choices are very limited.

i still have a few lbs to go, and the scale is standing still, so i have to stop doing this!!

hugs!

manda

Hello Manda, Thank you for responding to my post. You are too funny. I am still waking up eating but not every night,TG. The Holiday's were really tough for me cuss I love to bake and cook for everyone . I gained 10lbs and felt like crap when I saw the numbers on the scale. I lost the 10lbs and now have gained it back and don't really know why. I am stuck at this 10lb weight diff. I cant get under 170lb. I am in the gym 5 day's a week and have really stepped it up with the weight's. I was thinking it was mussel but I cant even sell that theory to myself. It's got to be the night eating. Weird thing is, that I have not been doing it for the last week. I don't know.
         I hope you are able to figure out what's going on with your night eating. I have a thought that it's stress,and emotional feeling's that we have. I think that it is important  more so for people like us to always speak,voice what we feel with friend's,and remember that people need other people. We are all just trying to make it in this crazy world. Thing's are also always so stressful in my life with two children 5&9 and a relationship that seems to have gotten more complicated since I lost the weight. I have no regrets tho,lol only that I didn't so it sooner. 
                        

                                                                                         * Adriana*

Hi A!

I think you are right, stress may well be a factor for me too! i am staying at home with my new baby (4 months)-my older son(2 and a half-i mention the half becaus as you know at that age every half counts a lot-tantrums and smiles!!)  is at nursery school, and i just am not a very good housewife! i am just too independent, and also thought that my husband would feel as good about me looking good these days, just as i am, but what can i say. i married a german man, are you telling me they are all the same?? lol

it really is tough when you have a whole 'new' life, and your husband does not want to enjoy it too.  i agree, i don't regret having the op one bit! i just spoke to a woman about it, you know, there are very few surgeons in south africa that do this operation, and there are some that still do that terrible one where they shorten your intestine.  people here don't know where to find the right info. we also don't have so many food choices-very few vitamin enriched foods. we have to cook everything from scratch-i don't mind, i love cooking, but cooking gastric bypass portions can be a little irretating!! lol

omg i thought i was the only one that did this, it never fails, not every night anymore, but it has to be something sweet for me like a couple of cookies or a brownie,,,,,, wow, i wish i wanted fruit instead of sugar.......

 Im glad I found this post.  I have been waking up during the night.  Cant sleep and eat something and then i go back to sleep.  i toss for hours and then i give in and eat.  I do not want to continue this pattern.  Maybe I will just go in to work a zombie,,,,a soon to be skinny zombie...lol

holly cow!  i don't wake up and eat. what i do is find myself setteling down after work (i work two jobs every day) in bed eating crackers of some sort until i cant move. I have been doing this for the last several months and am trying desparetly to STOP!!!!! i have gained about 15pds and am afraid i will fail miseriably. i know it's all head hunger but i can't seem to cut it out. i do really good during the day but at night (man its tuff) what can i do?? i have tried not to buy the crackers and found myself eating what i could find. i do stay away from sugary snacks (only cuz i dont buy them) but if i dont have my fix, i obsess until i get them. sometimes i even break down and buy surgary stuff cuz i get to wanting them and again obsess until i break down and do eat them. my surgery was 2 1/2 yrs ago and i have done excellent ( from 249 to 120) but at this rate i will be back to my old weight in no time. as far as hubby's go . mine thinks im too skinny and didn't want me to get the surgery in the first place and is NOT supportive at all. he says i was fine the way i was before and wants me to gain most if it back so i have a booty and chest again. well thats him not me. im quite happy at my size and wish to maintain it. i just joined the "back on track" forum so maybe there is some insight. as far as counseling goes my counselor thinks im too small too ( i have been seeing him for 5yrs so he remembers my past size) so there is no support there either. i'm stuck!!

thanks for listening to me ramble

piggyangel

 you do what is right for you angel...nobody else gets to tell you.  sounds like your man maybe is intimidated or doesnt like your confidence.  

honestly i think my man is thinking of himself instead of me. before the surgery i had high blood pressure, diabetes, fibro myalga, bad knees, shortness of breath, couldn't walk anywhere, and the list goes on...............  now i have no issues. My hubby has got low self esteem and used to revel in the fact that i couldn't do hardley anything cuz of my size, he was embarrassed and used to make fun of me at will. that has turned around to comments such as "ur too skinney" " if u only had ur butt back u'd be all right" and my favorite "u look like a 90yr old when ur naked and who wants to sleep with a 90yr old" u think im subconsciensely dooming myself to get back what he wants? i hope not! as i said im quite happy with my and my size and off all the meds i used to be on. i can even sleep again (my chest used to sit on my neck at night while i slept and i would wake up choking). anyway, i have got to find a way to turn this around or i will be back in the same boat i was before. death by food. thanks for ur reply

piggyangel