Does the night time eating Saga every end?

Nighttime eating?  I still have this problem.  I am working on it but it is a real challenge.  Some nights I do great.  Tonight is not one of them.  I pretty much have resolve myself to I can not stop eating at night.  I just make sure I don't exceed calories and that is where exercise calories help a lot.  It it had not been for them, I would not be losing as much weight now.  I try not to eat more than half of my exercise calories but my nite time eating is making this impossible.  

I keep jello cups and pickles and this helps too when I get the munchies.  I like pickles but jello is just OK but it does the trick sometimes and it is only 5 calories. 

I am really not asking for suggestions, I know them all.  I just want to know if any one understands this issue. And have any of you given up on not eating at night and just choose wiser choices at night.  I know when I weighed in 500's I would eat fast foods late at night and then go to bed.  So I have come a long way, but sometimes I feel I should be able to stop eating after a certain time period.  Oh well and life goes on.  Thanks for letting me vent. 

I don't want to give up the fight but as long as eating very low calorie stuff is working for me, I just don't feel like I should continue to fret.  Your thoughts?  Please.  

Hi Molly,
Yes, I understand every word written here.  I don't know what it is but, I think we all suffer from the same fault.  Remember when we were kids how you use to always get a snack before bedtime...cookies and mil**** cream, or a slice of Mommy's cake. A habit still being taught to our kids today. We actually went to sleep on all of those calories, and although we were kids it was a bad habit to teach us.  It's like it's planted into our memory banks from childhood to adulthood, it's a learned habit.

The only thing we can do now is to try and control the feeling.  Yes, I still get hungry after a certain time of night, and like you I have my legal snacks; Protein drink, chocolate protein pudding or fruit slices.  I just have to remember where I use to be to where I am now.  I've lost some weight but I haven't lost the habits.

Still on my journey to get the weight off.

Dreamgirl119