I cannot tell you how ridiculous I feel when I wake up with a smashed cookie in my hand and I wonder how it got there. My kids tell me they hear me walking at night and they hear the cookie can in the kitchen open. So I know i'm doing it. I just don't remember falling asleep with the cookies in my hand. I wake up in the middle of the night and i'm just very hungry! And I get very agitated and I can't go back to sleep. So no sleep, what else to do? I EAT! I'm laughing now, but I realize this defeats the purpose of all the good exercise I try to do. I just can't figure out how to stop.
Full Version: Night Eating
I cannot tell you how ridiculous I feel when I wake up with a smashed cookie in my hand and I wonder how it got there. My kids tell me they hear me walking at night and they hear the cookie can in the kitchen open. So I know i'm doing it. I just don't remember falling asleep with the cookies in my hand. I wake up in the middle of the night and i'm just very hungry! And I get very agitated and I can't go back to sleep. So no sleep, what else to do? I EAT! I'm laughing now, but I realize this defeats the purpose of all the good exercise I try to do. I just can't figure out how to stop.
plut: Are you by any chance taking Ambien CR? It's been associated with episodes of "sleep-eating."
My cousin once woke up cradlng a half of pound of sliced provolone. (Okay, so she had been drinking. )
Seriously though, I know what you mean about the nighttime hungry horrors...I can't sleep if my stomach is growling.
My cousin once woke up cradlng a half of pound of sliced provolone. (Okay, so she had been drinking. )
Seriously though, I know what you mean about the nighttime hungry horrors...I can't sleep if my stomach is growling.
QUOTE (RoundRobin @ Nov 18 2006, 12:18 AM) 
plut: Are you by any chance taking Ambien CR? It's been associated with episodes of "sleep-eating."
My cousin once woke up cradlng a half of pound of sliced provolone. (Okay, so she had been drinking. )
Seriously though, I know what you mean about the nighttime hungry horrors...I can't sleep if my stomach is growling.
My cousin once woke up cradlng a half of pound of sliced provolone. (Okay, so she had been drinking. )
Seriously though, I know what you mean about the nighttime hungry horrors...I can't sleep if my stomach is growling.
No, I don't take any sleep aid medication. My sleep pattern has been out of whack ever since menopause hit. I try to exercise right before bedtime so i'll be too tired to wake up, and like clockwork, around 2 or 3 in the morning, i'm awake. I get really angry because i'm tired and then the next thing I know, i'm casing the refrigerator or the cookie can. I know I shouldn't be eating, but it's out of frustration. Im trying to correct the behavior, because for medical reasons I cannot take sleep medication.
QUOTE (Plutp1 @ Nov 17 2006, 10:01 PM)
I cannot tell you how ridiculous I feel when I wake up with a smashed cookie in my hand and I wonder how it got there. My kids tell me they hear me walking at night and they hear the cookie can in the kitchen open. So I know i'm doing it. I just don't remember falling asleep with the cookies in my hand. I wake up in the middle of the night and i'm just very hungry! And I get very agitated and I can't go back to sleep. So no sleep, what else to do? I EAT! I'm laughing now, but I realize this defeats the purpose of all the good exercise I try to do. I just can't figure out how to stop.ROTFLMAO!!
I love your post! I have been there so many times! It started with PMS and has continued into Peri! I'm glad I'm not alone! Thanks for the laugh 
My cousin once woke up cradlng a half of pound of sliced provolone. (Okay, so she had been drinking. )
LOL! YOU ARE ALL KILLING ME!
I've posted about this subject before. I've woke up with beans in my hair, cookie drul(sp)? and various food items stuck all over my body!! My body seems to have an hourly schedule of waking me up, it goes thur some stupid cycle, every hour I wake up with anxiety, I have to jump up race to kitchen shove something in my mouth and then go back to bed, Then it starts all over. Hubby thinks I'm really nuts. There sure are some foods that just don't taste good at 3 in the morning!!! Burping tuna is grosss!!!! -----Shelley
plut
I think that maybe exercising right before bed may be making you hungry. I don't exercise before bed because it gets me too wound up. I thought it would make me sleep better but didn't. I try to have a "good" snack before bed like either a bowl of cereal or whole grain bread with peanut butter. It has helped out alot with the waking up hungry thing. Try this and it might work for you too.
Kim
I think that maybe exercising right before bed may be making you hungry. I don't exercise before bed because it gets me too wound up. I thought it would make me sleep better but didn't. I try to have a "good" snack before bed like either a bowl of cereal or whole grain bread with peanut butter. It has helped out alot with the waking up hungry thing. Try this and it might work for you too.
Kim
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