Does the night time eating Saga ever 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.  

Molly...

Nighttime eating certainly can be a huge challenge that I can identify with. My husband works 2nd shift.. so when he gets home at 11:30 he often times wants something to eat.

Does this mean I have to eat some dinner or snacks with him? NO...
but have I? YES...
Do I still? YES... at times...

Is eating that late healthy? No of course not... all of us are aware of that. The problem is not if we do this OCCASSIONALLY but rather if it becomes a practice that we do REGULARLY.

and as you mentioned... importantance of WHAT we are CHOOSING to eat at a time we know promotes gaining weight.

JUST A THOUGHT:

Have you tried picking a few nights where you:
WILL NOT EAT after say 8:30.... drink water... tea decaf etc

another night only allow... healthy snacks...

ONE NIGHT of something not such a good health choice... this night you can choose to indulge or pass... till the next week.

just some thoughts....

ENDEAVOR to ACHIEVE!

I know you want to SUCCEED!

Thanks Judy!!!  I will try some to these.  I do not drink anything after 8 because I will be up too many times during the night if I drink pass 8 pm. 

Molly, this will probably be a forever problem for me.  Like I've said before I just have to not keep that stuff in the house because at night I WANT to eat.  Will it ever go away?  Perhaps not but the thing to do is to look the reason directly in the face.  I know that I am more likely to be bored or anxious or one of those things I am that triggers me.  I can keep the stinkin' thinkin' at bay pretty much in the morning and during the day but in the evening it is more difficult.  Maybe due to just being tired of fighting my head and those thoughts and I eventually just get worn down.  The only way I can actually fight it is to commit 100% that I will not do it.  Like I said before, 99% is so much harder to do.  If I make it black and white, just can't do it, it is easier.  Do I mess up sometimes?  I don't call it messing up though.  I just allow myself to eat something without going overboard.  I don't want to do the binge thing so I try to keep it normal. 

Sorry this is jumbled but yes I will probably fight this one forever...it's just trying to deal with my head at night.  When I fix my thinking it is much easier to handle the night stuff so it will probably always be a work in progress.
hugs, Y

Thanks Yvonne, It makes sense for sure and that is what I have resolve, I will never be 100 percent and that it will be something I struggle with.  I hate to say forever but I think it may be forever just like my journey is a work in progress and life style change that I have to stay constantly mindful of.  Thanks again!!
Hugs,
Molly