Do you feel hungry in the middle of the night?

@leanette (3002)
India
April 4, 2007 9:27pm CST
Do you wake in the middle of the night only to find yourself hungry and not able to sleep?Is that false appetite? Or a way to get you back to sleep? How many of you have this habit of eating in the sleeping hours of the night? My mom eats has a low appetite all day long, she cannot eat more than a few couple of morsels but in the middle of the night, she finds herself awake and hungry and cannot go back to sleep unless she has something. Is this eating disorder or sleeping disorder? lol
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14 responses
• Philippines
5 Apr 07
I guess its a habit for you to eat at the middle of the night. I used to do that but I suddenly turned NIG! LOL. And when I realized I'm getting bigger. I exerted all efforts to try not to eat at the middle of the night.
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@leanette (3002)
• India
5 Apr 07
lol, its not me, its my mom.....it doesn't happen that often to her, she's tiny, she never tends to binge. It maybe a sleeping disorder I suppose! Once I go to sleep theres no waking up hungry. Maybe it was binging for you ma chere, good thing you worked on it! :) Thanks for the response!
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@Rabi0322 (188)
• Pakistan
6 Apr 07
i dont feel hungry in the middle of night because i sleep well and i dont have a habbit of eating too much and i think my stomach works properly and what food i eat in dinner is almost enough for me till the morning
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@leanette (3002)
• India
7 Apr 07
Good on you Rabi! I don't have that habit either, I just don wanna wake up from a good sleep, just to eat. lol Thanks for the response!
@greengal (4286)
• United States
5 Apr 07
Haha, that happens all the time with people with those who follow a diet during the diet. Midnight hunger pangs can be controlled by drinking water or a glass of milk. I sometimes feel hungry when I've had dinner early and we sleep later than our usual time, I drink water or a glass of warm milk and that helps me sleep.
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@leanette (3002)
• India
5 Apr 07
Yeap, that happens to me, If i've had an early dinner and go late to bed, I munch a cookie or two and drink one glass of water and am full. But for my mom I have to whip up a light snack during midnights. She doesn't get the pangs very often, but it keeps coming back. Thanks for the response!
@wachit14 (3595)
• United States
6 Apr 07
I've been known to eat something in the middle of the night when I can't sleep. I'll go to the kitchen and have a cup of chamomile tea and a few cookies. Then I feel sleepy and go back to bed. It's not a good habit though.
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@leanette (3002)
• India
7 Apr 07
Definitely not a good habit, but you don't seem to do it often, do you? The hunger pangs grab you only if you haven't had enough food all day. Thanks for the resonse!
• United Arab Emirates
5 Apr 07
I dont feel hungry or feel like eating something but i get thursty. I drink water during the sleep and dont eat anything.
@leanette (3002)
• India
5 Apr 07
Yea me too sometimes get really thirsty at night, so I drink enough before I go to bed to not bother wakin up in the middle of my sleep. Thansk for the response!
• United States
5 Apr 07
I usually wake up about 4 or 4:30 when my hubby is getting ready for work. I am NEVER hungry.......even if I have to go to the bathroom I try to talk myself out of it and go back to sleep. I LOVE to sleep. Before I was taking this antidepressant I'd wake up in the middle of the night and have bad thoughts and would be awake for an hour or 2. I have a friend who will get up and eat a cookie, but nothing major. Hmmmmmmmmm, not sure what your mom's 'problem' is. Good luck!!
@leanette (3002)
• India
5 Apr 07
Thanks! Depresssion makes you wanna eat a lot...thats what my sister used to do before she started takin antidepressants. Even I don't feel hungry around the night, or early mornings, its usually late mornings I wake up hungry! Maybe we need to check on my moms low intake of food. Thanks for the response!
• India
31 May 07
Hungry feeling - Hungry
Yeah sometimes i feel hungry
• India
7 Apr 07
i feel thirsty sometimes
@fliffy555 (1044)
10 Apr 07
I think it may be a bit of both. I personally HAVE to get up in the night about 4 time and have a pint of water otherwise i can sleep. I get so dehydrated that I cant sleep cuz I wake myself up not being able to breathe properly from lack of water. If your mum doesnt eat much in the day that can affect here sleeping. Has she tried calming tablets? I had to try them at one point cuz I wasnt sleeping at all just drinking and going toilet. No sleep became bad for me. I don't eat much in the day (prob like your mum) I just dont find the time or the energy to eat during the day but Ill have one large(ish) cooked meal about an hour before I go bed and then all i need is water till i get up for the next day!
• India
10 Apr 07
Ya I too feel hungry sometimes in the night and i really search for something to eat and that happens if i didnt have a sleep or if have really eaten less that day and my appetite needs more..I think its natural with ur mom too as she must be starved the whole day by taking too less a diet
@liranlgo (5752)
• Israel
9 Apr 07
Yes,most of the time i do feel hungry. i will wake up and make me a snack, and the hour does not seem to matter. i know that i usually start to eat, only at noon time, and i do not eat at regular hours, so it happens to me alote, this craving for food at night hours. i also go to sleep around 3 am, so it does seem acceptable, when i am hungry at 1 am. But i can tell you one thing, after i eat at night times, i have a very big difficulitty of going to sleep, usually i am full of energy.
• Singapore
5 Apr 07
I normally work through the night anyway so I wouldn't need to wake up to get food. I can just eat during the night when I get hungry. But I seldom do that though unless I am really starving to the point of fainting lol. I will just wait for breakfast/lunch and go to bed. :P
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@leanette (3002)
• India
5 Apr 07
Unlike you, there are many who cannot wait until breakfast..:P I see you really don't have much appetite, good for you, it'd save you from that paunch...:P Thanks for the response!
@samrat16 (2442)
• India
5 Apr 07
Yes, I wake up in the middle of the night only to find food to fill my empty stomach . I don't think so that it's a false appetite . I have got this habbit of eating in midnights . It's not either sleeping or eating disorder it's there with every person who is either dieting or on low calorie food.
@leanette (3002)
• India
5 Apr 07
Thanks for the information about the low calorie thing. She isn't dieting, just her appetite is really low, maybe she needs to have a healthy full diet. Thanks for responding!
@veldort (210)
• Finland
14 May 07
Sometimes I do feel hungry in the middle of the night. Sometimes I get up and go and eat something, and sometimes I just try to sleep till morning and breakfast.