Any tips on how to stop "midnight-munching?"

I guess you could try drinking more water before you retire at night so that youll feel a little fuller at night (though it can wake at night to urinate). If you really cant help but munch at night try having fruits as substitute. their healthier and filling aswell.

Be creative. Don't buy cookies. Put a time lock on the fridge. Keep the milk in your backyard overnight. Exercise in the day so you don't wake up in the middle of the night. After you use the milk in the morning, freeze it. Then take it out at night, so it defrosts by morning. Don't buy milk and get a cow instead. She won't be ready to milk at midnight. You can think of something, or you can't just stop and make it a habit NOT to wake up and eat cookies. You can do it, good luck. :D

When I am on a diet I always put a picture of me "fat" in a bathing suit on the fridge !!! So each time I go to the fridge I get reminded that this summer i don't want to look like "that" ... It works for me ...

Apparently, if you take a glass of water to bed with you, it curbs that Midnight Munchies feeling. I've tried this with some degree of success but lately, I've been staying up till the wee hours of the morning anyway, and so I find it harder to not snack on something lol. I wish you luck in trying to lose weight. I'm saving up for a rowing machine so I can start to regain some tone to my stomach. Only when I'm fully satisfied will I get back into a bathing suit lol.

Don't feel like you're in the all by boat yourself. :) I have the same goal & problem with late night snacking. I recently found a website that actually listed several negative calorie foods. (foods that take more energy to process than the calories that they contain) It was interesting to see how many low calorie/low fat foods there are that can help your body burn the calories better. If you need to treat your sweet tooth, try an apple, or an orange, or pineapple, or papaya instead of milk & cookies. I found at least 20 negative calorie foods on the site, so if you need help with meals other than the midnight snack, let me know & I'll share some of the others with you. :) Snack wisely!

What kind of milk do you drink? If it's not skimmed you should consider switching. A glass of milk before going to bed can help you sleep. Maybe try that and if you still wake up drink water and have some fresh or dried fruit.

Try to break the habit. If you cannot, then change the treat to raw veggies or fruit. Otherwise, you know the outcome. Wish there was an instant pill to take, and presto, we are thin. :) Good luck sugar.

as far as i understand it, you need to re educate your body. If you eat a good supper at about 8 pm, any sleep pattern in time will not be interupted by hunger pangs, blessed be

Will power and determination, that is what you need. If you have one place a picture you in a bikini back when you think you're still slim or a slim (not thin) celebrity on your fridge door or cookie jar so that you'll remember not to eat a snack at night. Drinking milk is good but the cookie must go, munch of lettuce instead if you can or just drink warm milk before bead it can help you have a blissful sleep.

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Well it is 12:02 a.m, and I'm shoving a twinkie down my mouth. I just woke up, and decided to read some discussions before I went back to bed. This is a problem of mine also. So I'll be watching to see what anyone has to say on the advice side.

I think it's ok to munch. But Cut the cookie. Instead munch on green apples. Drink low fat milk or Soya Milk. Healthier choice.... If you feel like munching.... stick to the green apples.... Good Luck!!

it is not a bad habit. but if u wanna remove this habit then you should go to a dietician. he would tell u that how can u remove this habit.

I also suffered from the problem of eating in the middle of the night. I would wake in the early hours and devour bars of chocolate! I understand that eating carbohydrates late at night can cause this. So, if for example you eat a lot of bread or pasta for your evening meal, when this energy runs out the body can cry ouf for more and hence you get up to eat. Try to cut make portions of these smaller and eat as early as possible.

WHAT!? It's bad to snack alte nights? YIKES. I'm going to hell now. That's the main time I eat my junk food is after midnight. Sorry. LOL. Good luck & Im hoping for a little help other than a lock on the fridge. hee hee Happy postings from Grandpa bob

I understand how you feel because I used to do the same thing. I used to work the evening shift so dinner was at 5p and I would get home about 10p and always had to eat something..this is right before I went to bed. I started to put on the pounds and a friend suggested that I add apple cider vinegar to my diet. You can find it in the health food store and they will suggest how to use it. It cut my appetite right away. So I started having a big lunch, and a high fibre bar at 5p and as soon as I got home from work I would make myself a 'cider cocktail'. My nightime munching was gone!

one thing i can suggest u (from a person who have problems gaining weight..) you should not sleep most of the time in the afternoon or try to control napping because when u napped in the afternoon, that extended the time of awake hrs at night :) try to drink milk for dinner atleast one glass or half glass and stop drinking coffee too late. I also experienced that to have munchies at night or late night coz of not yet sleepy and boredom of silence. but for me thats fine because i need to gain weight, im not that thin and skinny but id love to have more weight than what i have right now.

I like "pains" advice. I too share your problem, I can go pretty near the whole day and not eat a thing, but come evening and especially the wee hours I eat to excess. It seems that once I start I can not stop very easily. Perhaps for me I should make myself eat at other times during the day and then my body won't feel like it has been deprived and needs to make up for lost time? I think having celery and carrot sticks cleaned and sliced in a glass of water in the fridge, ever handy for those late night binges would help significantly in an endeavor to lose weight.

I'm guessing that since you get up to eat cookies it's because you're craving something sweet. Try buying some diet snack bars to eat instead of cookies, they are lower in calories and contain protein too. I would recommend the Southbeach Diet Bars, they don't taste bad, my son likes to eat these as a snack and since they have a protein in them I don't mind at all.

Hmmmnn... I don't have many insights but I can tell you what I have learned... Firstly, if there is something I know I should be avoiding like pop, chips or any other great snackfood, I just don't bring it home from the supermarket. Secondly, I know my own tendency to binge at times which is what I worte about in the following article... You are welcome to any insights you find useful: http://www.helium.com/tm/102773/binge-should-lightly-signifying