Locking up the food

Hi SissyRose, It sounds like a great idea to put your favourite snack food out of reach or at least hard to get. Midnight snacking could jeopardise any diet regime you may be trying to get yourself into. For me, once I sleep, I seldom wake up to eat. Usually I would wake up to drink because I'm thirsty due to the hot weather. But during my waking hours, especially near sleep time, I'd be snacking almost non-stop right after dinner. It's tough to get out of the habit. Now, I'm trying to record all the food I'm eating on my cellphone. It calculates how many more calories I'm entitled for the day. It helps me to be aware of the food that I'm eating, the amount of calories in it. It has also encouraged me to exercise more, even merely walking at a leisurely pace for half an hour a day. From all these recording, I have refrained from snacking too much. Or I choose a protein-rich drink to squash my hunger pangs at the end of the day.

I had a co worker whose husband had a work accident and became disabled, in that he was always home. He ate okay when awake, but he also sleep ate. . . and said it was her not him. He was the one with chocolate frosting on his face and pillow. In situations like that I would make certain that the food is not here to be had. He would also have bowls of cereal, etc. I would go ahead and put the foot out of reach and try to have a healthy snack before bed.

I think it is a good idea to put things where you can't reach them, because the temptation to eat the food while we are tired late at night can be far too high. However, you should take some time to think about whether you should have bad foods in your house at all. If you just stopped buying them when you were out shopping, there is no way that you would be able to eat them because the fact is that they just wouldn't be in the house at all. This is what I do now, as I know that I cannot trust myself if there is any kind of junk food around where I am at the time.

I know just how hard it is when you are trying to control your weight; over the last 16 months or so I have lost 110 pounds. I have done this by completely changing my eating habits and eating healthily. I eat 3 good meals a day aand eat so that I am completely satisfied and do not feel the need to snack in between meals. I would suggest to avoid binging as you describe the best think would be to avoid buying the snacking foods so that there is nothing 'naughty' to binge on. Keep some chopped vegetables to nibble on if you really have to eat something, good luck, I'm sure that you'll do it!

My suggestion would be to just tell yourself NO. Really, really try not to do it. If that doesn't work, then you should take further actions. Whatever works for you is best. You know? But also, how much healthy food is in your house? You can't try to lose weight with debbie cakes and icecream in your cabinets and freezer. Get rid of the junk food. Buy all healthy food every time you go to the store and if you do snack, at least it'll be healthy.