Do you eat when you are not hungry, I seem to be a sleep eater I wake up and eat constantly during the night.?
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I do...its just 'mindless eating.'  I can control it most of the time but sometimes I do it even though I know I shouldn't.
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Yes, my hubby heard on the radio that it does.  I also feel that when you are asleep you cannot be eating.  The longer people stay awake the more they eat.  The less people sleep the fatter they get.  Americans have slept less and less and they have become more and more obese.  During sleep your body conducts a lot of healing and recovery activities.  With no sleep it can't repair the damage.  I don't know the exact mechanism why it helps you lose weight, but it came from a reputable source (NPR)
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Rule One: Do not eat before you are hungry.\n\nRule Two: Allow for at least 3 hours before sleep to eat \n\nRule Three: Who says we should eat three meals, one of which is dinner? Some say that smaller portions of foods 5 times daily are better.\n\nRule Four: You need to do what is best foryou and your family\n\n(this is different if you have small children involved who need more regular eating)
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Study sleep eat study sleep eat
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I never eat breakfast unless I did not eat any dinner the night before and wake up starving.\n\nUsually I have to wait about two hours after waking up before I can eat anything or I begin to feel nauseated.  \n\nAnd always if you consider the fact that I do not wake up until 2:30 in the afternoon since I work nights.
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I have my days where I seem to not sleep, I also loose the eating feeling. I try to keep fluids at least and drink V8 or tomato juice. The V8 will help with the weakness because of all the vegetables.
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eat a lot at once and then go to sleep
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Your digestive system is at work all the time and normally during the day you're eating at more or less regular intervals so there's food in your stomach to be digested.\n\nAfter a nights sleep there's likely to be little left to digest so you get feelings of hunger.\n\nPartly it will depend on what you eat - a 'heavy' meal high in fats and proteins for example, will take longer to digest than a 'light' meal such as a salad.
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Eat when you do not feel like eating.\nKeep your meals more regular, dont wait too long to eat.\nEat your largest meal in the morning or by noon hour.\nEat more fruits. Eat salads, endless cold veggies. Basically eat veggies for snacks. Fats crave more fatty foods, and sugar craves more sugar food. When you eat more fruits and vegetables regularly you will actually crave for less fatty, salty, sugary foods.
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This happens to me sometimes too. I think that mine is from eating too early or too late. I can't eat anything before 10-11am and nothing after 6pm. Sometimes I even feel sick though when I just eat a regular meal.  I don't know the cause of it,but have no other symptoms to indicate a problem,so I just live with it.\n\nIf you are experiencing other symptoms,I would recommend that you speak with your physician. If it concerns you greatly,see your doctor too.
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Well, the more hours you are awake, the more time you have to notice hunger, and the more time you have to do battle with the urge to eat something.  Also, unless you are doing a lot of very physical things with that time, you are not burning calories nearly as fast as you are wearing out your mental processes.\n\nReal dieting takes self-control: I'm sure you know that.  And the more wired-but-tired you are (which is what sleeplessness is), the less you have self-control, or at the very least, it is psychically wearing in a way that multiplies, not simply adds up.\n\nI would recommend you take a mild sedative, such as Valerian, to get some sleep earlier than 1:00 a.m.  Since you need to get up by 5:00, realistically you should try to get to bed by 10 as often as possible.
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I read some answers on the board.... It's not an eating problem, it's a depression problem. Everybody deals with it differently. Some people eat a lot. Some people can't sleep, or they sleep too much. It's about chemical imbalances in the brain, whether heretitary or brought on by stress. Talk to a therapist or even someone close to you. Don't go on a binge of junk food...that's not healthy. Slowly increase your meals, and excersize to keep your mind from thinking about whatever made yo depressed. Or write/type it out in a journal to clear yor head. You'll feel a whole lot better :)
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wow theres so many not eating not wanting to do anything.ie go out ..sleeping funny hours..getting angry with the littlest things..try talking to them see if you can help them in anyway..i hope you are successfull good luck!
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sounds like your mitochondrial system in your cells are a little over-loaded with blood sugar, try restricting carbohydrates and refined sugar, especially after sundown as this will keep you up at night.. Carbs are pasta, rice, bread and other starchy stuff, try more vedgetables and alkaline fruits, fresh food is also better than packaged.\n\neat in moderation and snack more if you are hungry a lot but reduce the meal size. Try to inclease the vitamin value of your food and read the labels of the food you do eat to better understand the ingredients that may be keeping you up. Cafein in soda tea or coffee could be keeping you up and tired, try reducing these drinks to 1-2 a day if you can.\non sleeping, the brain averages its sleep cycles in 90 minute periods for most of us although it is a little different for every one. try sleeping 7.5, 6 or 9 hours at a time the period needs to be divisable by 90 minutes.\n  Lastly try running, jogging or walking an hour or two every other day, amazing what exersize can do to regulate sleep and make you tired. I take a hot bath or shower after exersizing and I sleep like a baby.\n  Oh and stay away from sleep aides with the exception of a triptifan mouth spray, it is natural and has a great taste and you will not feel groggy in the A.m.\ngood luck!\n\noh a guy came to me once and he repeated over and over " I am a teepee I am a wigwam, I am a teepee I am a wigwam" I said "hey man you are just too tents!" (joking) tension and stress will keep you awake too, reduce stresses at home work and school when you can, yoga, thaichi (sp.?) and pilaties can help with stress too. have fun joke aroud more and ditch anyone in your life who is depressing, find people who are fun and uplifting.
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Man what the heck are you eating? Its not like you could be fixing five star dinners in your sleep??? Lock the bedroom door? Tie yourself to the bed?
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Don't eat to suppress your hunger, or you will feel awful and guilty when you feel like you need to eat and do.  Everyone has to eat, its perfectly alright to eat if you're hungry.  Instead of suppressing your hunger, switch all the foods you snack on with healthier choices.  Things like fruits and veggies with a little peanut butter on them.  Raisins, apples and cheese, stuff like that.  And start off slow with the exercise;  find a great place to walk and walk there with good music or something.  And if you feel like eating your favorite snack food, do it!  Don't feel guilty about it, just make a goal to only indulge once a week.  Hope this helps.
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No other sign of narcolepsy?  If you don't eat before going to bed, do you have troubles falling asleep? Are there any foods that you especially like?\n\nSuggestion 1: Try melatonin at bedtime. Make sure you're getting enough sleep to wake up well rested.\n\nSuggestion 2: Do a diet check for allergies.  Remove one type of food from your diet for a week and see if that changes anything. I suggest starting with wheat first as that is very pervasive.