Night eating is a bad habit that was a big contributor to obesity. After a dinner it's not hunger that you experience but the mental obsession with food that carried over after the surgery.

No, I'm hungry.

I have to agree with @@BeagleLover ... It's not a figment of my imagination... I am hungry, and I refuse to try and go to sleep feeling that way. I will grab a string cheese, or a Baby Bell mozzarella in order to get rid of the feeling.

Well okay I would try a glass of Water before I would eat.

food releases a feel good chemical that lights up the same pleasure center of the brain that drugs and alcohol and sex do. So it becomes a pattern of oh im hungry let me eat now there is a reward felt through feeling better. A lot of the time if not all a glass of Water will fill the stomach up and quench that hunger feeling. But isn't it the hunger feeling we felt even though we had a big meal and that because of hunger we ate way more than the body can process and as a result stored it as fat.

So then it becomes an excuse to eat more than 3 meals a day because we are hungry.

I was told by my doctor to specifically eat Snacks and NOT just 3 meals a day.

This sounds like your own personal issue here.

yeah I agree Breakfast then snack lunch then snack then dinner nothing till the next day. otherwise eating is an activity not because you are hungry and to me that sounds familiar with why people are overweight to begin with. yeah I guess your right I have a personal issue when it comes to eating more than just nourishment sounds like eating to feel content and where will that end.

Edited February 15, 201511 yr by jaysleever

I have to agree with @@BeagleLover ... It's not a figment of my imagination... I am hungry, and I refuse to try and go to sleep feeling that way. I will grab a string cheese, or a Baby Bell mozzarella in order to get rid of the feeling.

i eat 3 squares a day but I also snack. It's not that you're eating, it's WHAT you're eating that matters.

It's amazing how people will defend their right to chew food at any hour of the day or night. Yes food is slowly becoming the focal point of the daily life. Most unfortunately.

I think these boards s/b as free of judgement as possible, IJS.

You never know how vulnerable the person on the other end might be.

I'll promote for myself what my medical team advises. If that means I snack all day and continue to stay healthy and reach that healthy weight then that's my story. Everyone has one that works. I am ultimately in control. But, if anyone wants to waste their energy judging then so be it.

Still going to enjoy my journey. ????????????

Edited February 16, 201511 yr by tomi71

It's amazing how people will defend their right to chew food at any hour of the day or night.

It's amazing how people will defend their right to judge others and preach their own brand of B.S.

Just sayin'.

Would you eat after dinner if you weren't hungry but hadn't met your protein goal? I'm a month out and for some reason I'm like 25g under my average. Oh well, in too tired to go to the kitchen. So that settles that! Lol

It's amazing how people will defend their right to chew food at any hour of the day or night. Yes food is slowly becoming the focal point of the daily life. Most unfortunately.

Everyone certainly does have a right to eat food; nobody else has the right to judge or dictate how you exercise that right.

Eating three meals and two Snacks. Healthy focus of course is good and balances out ones blood sugar levels and allows your body to burn excess vs storing as fat. It's the south beach lifestyle in a nutshell. Don't get yourself too hungry. That can lead to over eating, bad choices, eating too fast etc. I see no concern with having a wedge of cheese if your hungry before bed and it gets in your Protein.

Please be considerate of your fellow forum folks. We all come from and are in a different place. We are all here to learn and get support from like-minded people.

There was a point I needed a reminder to eat. There's a point when I need a reminder to drink and other times I find myself making bad choices and grazing. Your journey is your journey and mine is mine. It's all personal.

I was specifically directed to add 2 snacks at my 1 month follow up. WHEN was not important. At that point I wasn't hungry anyway so I put them between breakfast and lunch and lunch and dinner. What WAS important was that I get a bit more nutrition and calories that I could fit in 3 meals per day. It was also important that they were planned high protein snacks and that I not succumb to "grazing" behavior. This was good advice for me from a success perspective. When I began feeding my body adequately my weight loss picked up, my energy level increased. I healed without issues and reached goal in the first year. Oh yeah... I had a treat, popcorn or a Skinny Cow bar several nights per week while I was losing! :-O HORRORS! I worked it into my meal plan and managed to lose and maintain the weight anyway never feeling guilty or deprived. Nothing in the world wrong with that!