Hi there! Night time is also my worst binging time it seems. Like you said I can usually do pretty good during the day, and then when late afternoon getshere I just want to eat anything and everything-isnt that nuts! I need something to help curb those night time cravings, maybe its a mental thing????

First of all is food worth being fat?

Thats what I always ask myself. Is this food worth not waking up tomorrow a little thinner?

Do you go to sleep around the same time every night?

If so just tell yourself im not going to eat because at 10:30 I will be going bed.

No better way to beat late night binges than to just go to sleep.

Trust me if your asleep you wont eat.

no i dont let myself.

That is some serious snacking! :-) How late at night? If it's pretty close to bedtime, I would just go to bed to avoid the urge.

Are you eating enough during the day? Maybe you are restricting too much during the day and its causing you to binge at night? First things first you need to examine your eating during the day and try to fill yourself to offset any hunger late at night. Next like the girls have been suggesting, get into bed and try to avoid the late night binge. Try reading, journaling, signing on to DS, anything to not focus on binging and or any "hunger pains" you might think you have. After a few days you will naturally go to bed without binging. Good luck!

You should definitely assess your food intake during the day. If "being good" means not taking in enough food to keep your blood sugar level, you'll literally be starving at night.

A suggestion for any time you have the urge to binge eat--first say, okay I'm going to do this, but I'm going to stop every 5 minutes and wait 15 minutes before I start eating again.

I'll bet you won't go as overboard as before. By slowing down your eating (binge or not), you're paying attention to what's happening, you'll probably notice you're feeling fuller sooner, and you'll stop before you've gone totally overboard.

A lot of out-of-control eating happens because we're just not noticing what's happening--you might feel so panicked that you're slipping on your diet that you can"t get that "bad" food in soon enough, and before you know it, the entire box/bag is gone. Then you notice what you did and you're left feeling awful and defeated.

Then of course you resolve to starve yourself the next day to make up for it and the cycle begins again.

Hope it helps!

Thanks for the advice, I am going to implement much of it tonight. I don't think it is my blood sugar dropping, I know what that feels like. I think alot of it is hormonal, I tend to do it during pms. It is also prolly emotion driven, I am under alot of stress and have mental health issues. Anyways, thxs