What I mean by sleep eating is waking up in the middle of the night and digging in the fridge for whatever and eating, not realizing you did it till you wake up and see a spoon with Peanut Butter residue or bread crumbs, etc.

I did this alot before I was banded. I know for a fact that eating at night or while I practically slept (cuz I really had no idea I did it till the morning) contributed alot to my weight gain past few years.

I almost started to slip once since I was banded but I figured out a way that will make sure this won't happen to me till I can retrain my brain and it out of my system. Sounds crazy but I have gotten a bike chain with a combination and have my husband and son lock the fridge at night. I refuse to know the combination. :huytsao I put Cereal and peanut butter, (my biggest night food) in the fridge so that it won't jump in my sleepy mouth. Funny thing is, I don't eat these items or ate them during the daytime, only at night when I wasn't aware.

It's working. No weight re-gain yet and no night sleep walk eating. Anyone experiencing this weird late night occurance, sleep disturbance?

I'm not asleep when I do it....it's just become a bad habit. It's usually Cereal and I know I need more fill because I can eat a whole bowl. I work evenings and get home about 12. I need to get up during the night to pee several times. I always have since I was a little girl. I get real thirsty at night so this is probably part of it. But anyway, when I wake up around 2, I slip my slippers on and head out to the kitchen. I get the cereal and go back to my room (sleeping husband right next to me) and munch my cereal. I know he doesn't understand why I just show some willpower. *sigh*

I get up in the AM around 10:30 or so and don't really eat until an hour later. So my timing is off. It's real hard to get the timing of the food/water down as well.

I have to stop the midnite eating....it's killing my success.

Yes. I do this. I used to be very very bad. It runs in my family. The funniest times would be when we would scare the poopey out of eachother. I remember my brother dropping a huge ladle full of chili on my mother's kitchen floor when I startled him!!! It went every where, she was PISSED!!!

I am a night owl too. I go to bed late and if I eat dinner early then it seems that i get hungry and go to the fridge. A way for me to stop this is eat dinner about 3 hours before I know I will fall asleep. I usually am out by 1 am. So, I eat dinner around 9. I am not a Breakfast person so I eat lunch around noon. eat something small like a lean cuisine around 5, then a real dinner around 9.

If I don't follow this I'll end up eating a package of sandwich meat without knowing it. Remeber to just plan your dinner 3 or so hours before you go to bed. It will stop all of it.

Another thing I would do is count the calories I ate towards my next day. So, If I eat 400 calories of ice cream the next day will suck without food.

Hope this helps. Or you could just do the fridge pig thing....lol.

Marianne,

I too did what you did. My pup always needed to go out in the middle of the night. I found that to be a prime time to eat the left overs from dinner or what ever else I could down in the time is would take her to pee. I was fully awake and aware of my night eating.

I would wrestle with myself and consider it a success if I got back to bed without eating.

After being banded it stopped for the most part, unless I was stupid hungry. I'd then just eat some fat free cheese or something and count it.

Just this past September I had to put my dog to sleep, so the issue is mute...I sleep through the night without temptation. I do miss my pup though.

I know the bad thing is that I am awake when i fo it also... it is how i think i got in the weight probelem i got into was eating at night and going to bed again.... half the time i will be eating it and i will fall asleep with it in my hands and my husband gets so aggravated with all the crumbs that get in the bed..... i need to lock the foood up at night or have omething in the fridge remind me not to eat!!!

I have a friend that does this and tells me all the time what she ate and has no memory of doing it. Cereal seems to be a popular

sleep walking/eating food.

I am so glad I take Ambien and don't have this problem. I would

not be able to live without Ambien with my horrible insomnia. The last thing I need is eating when I don't even know I do it. I have enough trouble in the daytime with cravings!

Yes!!!! That's my problem. And OMG!! I've been taking Ambien. I will never take those stupid pills again. I've done this before taking Ambien, but it's gotten much worse since I've been taking it. Now, that I have the band, I could really hurt something by eating something and having it cause a problem. I just put up a thread to see if anyone else experienced this!!

I'm glad I'm not alone. I feel powerless over this night thing...

It kinda comes and go. And right now, it's at an all time bad. I remember about 10 years ago, I was at a hotel and didn't have any food so I "ate" toothpaste in the middle of the night!

I do it too and last night put a rope around the fridge and cut it off and did it anyways next is a bike chain I have taken ambient for 2yrsme and can't sleep without it but did it before ambient I m getting banded on ties and scared I will fail because of this problem it has been a issue for years have will power during the day