Eating in the middle of the night

[rado]

talk to text. embrace tech old timer.

Talk to text would be same if I type it you fucking idiot. It's called conveying the message, so much easier to convey something In person than text or typing. Inflection, body language, conveying it verbally works better...especially for retards like yourself..

[Scrumhalf]

But to eat in the middle of the night, then go to bed while food is sitting in belly just hanging out? Eh.

Rado, you keep repeating the same thing. During the day, the food doesn't just sit in the belly or something? Do you think it gets metabolized in an instant?

The negative feedback endocrine system does not respond the way you are thinking. IF you are a pro athlete, can you take something specific during halftime to give you energy in the 2nd half? Sure! IF you are a pro BB and you are prepping for a contest, are there specific protocols in the last 24-36 hours that matter? Sure! But that's not what we are talking about here.

Let me repeat myself. Fat metabolism operates on a much longer 3-ish day cycle. Trying to fine tune things to much shorter time periods than that is pointless. As long as your macros are in control, you'll be fine.

[Chadd77]

I have never got up in the middle of the night and started eating. lol Even on some hard core cutting diets. Go back to bed man!! :D

[AvidFisherman]

I've tried to force myself to go back to sleep but I feel compelled to eat before I go back to sleep. I stopped keeping any food I did not have to prepare at my house, other than vegetables, but sometimes I jump in my truck and drive to my parents down the road to raid their fridge. Unfortunately, when I do this it throws my macros way off because I am not eating healthy food. I will copy and paste one day out of my MyFitnessPal log so you can see that when I am awake I make decent food choices but when I am stumbling around at night I am an idiot; I have italicized what I ate in the middle of the night when I raided my parents fridge.

Breakfast
Bananas, raw, 1 medium (7" to 7-7/8" long)
Craft - Maccaroni and Cheese, 1 oz
Generic - Beef Stir Fry, 50 g
Turkey - Turkey Lunchmeat, 2 oz
Kraft Singles - American Cheese Singles, 1 slice (21g)
Hellmans - Mayonase, 1 tbsp
Jif - Peanutbutter, 4 TBSP
Honey - Clover, 1.5 Tablespoon (21g)
Butternut Honey Wheat - Bread, 2 slices
Lay's Chips - Bbq Potato Chips, 2 oz

Lunch
Egg, whole, cooked, hard-boiled, 3 large
Optimum Nutrition - Gold Standard 100% Casien - Chocolate Supreme, 1 scoop (33g)
Silk - Almond Milk Vanilla - Original, 1 Cup
Fruit - Bananna, 1 medium (118 g)

Dinner
Market Fresh - Rotiserie Chicken, 12 oz

Snacks
True Strength Optimum Nutrition - Instantized Bcaa 5000 Powder, Unflavored, 1 tsp (5.75 grams)
Muscletech Anarchy - Pre-workout, 1 Scoop (5 g)
Optimum Nutrition - Creatine Powder (Unflavored), 1 teaspoon (rounded / 5g)
Now Foods - Taurine - 1000mg, 2 capsule
Spring Valley - Potassium Gluconate 595mg, 2 Caplet
Nature Made - Fish Oil 1000mg, 2 softgels
Coffee - Brewed from grounds, 4 cup (8 fl oz)
Generic - Evening Primrose Oil (1 Capsule) , 1 Capsule (1300mg Primrose)
Now - Alpha Lipoic Acid, 1 Vcap
One-a-day - Men's Health Formula Multivitamin, 1 tablet
Metamucil - Fiber Supplement- Orange, 1 rounded Tbsp
MuscleTech - Pure CLA, 2 Capsule
Bodybuilding.Com - L-Carnitine Capsules, 1 capsule



This is not that bad of an example, sometimes I will eat a bunch of double stuffed oreos with milk.

[AvidFisherman]

I do not do this every night but I would say at least 3 or 4 nights out of the week.

[Deadlift605]

If you feel it is that much of an issue, be more disciplined....easy enough!

[Scrumhalf]

If you feel the urge, take a tsp of natty PB and a glass of water. It will fill you up. Don't fix a big sandwich lol...

[Bouncer]

Relevant:

Researchers Identify Binge Eating Genes In Teenagers

[chuckz28]

Maybe you can look into what is causing you to wake up in the middle of the night to begin with and try to correct that.

[AvidFisherman]

Night Eating Syndrome: A Warning Sign? - Forbes

I am thinking the best temporary solution is to count my night calories with my breakfast calories which I just started doing.

I go to a therapist for anxiety, maybe I will ask her about it next month.

[AvidFisherman]

Maybe you can look into what is causing you to wake up in the middle of the night to begin with and try to correct that.

I already know what causes it, but it cannot be fixed easily.