EATING ON THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

[littlemsmel]

Is there any cure......For the past few years I have had bouts of what I call sleepeating.....when anyone else in the house would be sleeping i would wake up at all hours of the night, grab really bad food and sneak away and just shove it all in my mouth. When I would wake up I would feel awful about myself ansd so frusterated because i felt out of control. I felt like I couldn't stop. It  has gotton a little better,where it is happening less often but Iam still faced with this problem. Any advice.....I;ve tried sleeping pills,not having any food in the house...I want a permanent solution.

[AnnaE]

My mother did that. I ate at night when I later visited the family. There was "bad" food like cake that I never bought at hom, Also, I think that I was distracting myself from childhood memories. All my family abused me, including my mother. Dreadful situation.

I only eat at night now if I am genuinely hungry because I ate too little during the day. But I know that I still have eating problems.

I hope you find help.

Best of luck.

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

The only permanent solution for this problem is to master the underlying emotional eating problem and the only place that you can do that permanently is either with a therapist or at my site, www.shrinkyourself.com.