Need Help With Night Eating

[bigmatt33]

I eat clean all day but then I wake up a couple times a night with intense hunger. Worst of all if that I want junk food. I'm usually half awake and don't have the mental ablility to make a good decision. Sometimes I wake up in the morning with all kinds of junk food laying around me in my bed. To help myself make better decisions I don't keep very many sweets in my house. But then I wake up with the almond butter jar half eaten. I can destroy a jar of nuts just like cookies.

This is what I have been doing that kind of helps: not keeping sweets in the house, taking trazadone and/or phinibut to keep from waking up so much, eating my last meal close to bed time (lean meat with complex carbs and veggies). A long acting protein shake helps when taken with some good carbs.

What makes it worse: not eating a meal before bed, not including carbs, taking ambien, having any sugary delicious food available.

There is nothing like knowing that you busted your ass all day working out and eating clean to wake up and realize you ate 1,000 calories of crap.

I'm thinking it could be a nutritional thing but I have done a little research and it could be a serotonin issues as well, not sure.

[almostgone]

I would be tempted to blame it partially on the Ambien, but anyway you could try portioning out a healthy snack/shake and keeping it bedside.....either that or lock your food up at night.

[tarmyg]

This is one bizarre problem, no offense... Would suggest you eat on maintenance for a while to see if the problem goes away to narrow down what it could be. Also, perhaps a sleep study if you can get a doctor to refer you.

Thanks
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[Back In Black]

Just eat a meal at bedtime consisting of all 3 macro's.

And yes, stop the ambien too.

[Giggle]

Yep - classic "Ambien Attack". A friend awoke to find himself emptying the refrigerator.

[Bonaparte]

Yep - classic "Ambien Attack". A friend awoke to find himself emptying the refrigerator.

My uncle woke up in the night, drove 4 miles to McDonald's, bought like 3 Big Mac meals from the drive thru, drove home and wrapped his truck around a tree near his house. Ambien can cause some crazy somnambulant behavior.

[Black Beard]

Are you cutting, bulking, or maintenance? If you are that hungry you must be at a serious caloric deficit so i'm assuming you are cutting.

[bigmatt33]

Yeah the ambien for sure makes it bad. But even when I don't take it I still wake up some nights and eat. The thing that works the most is when I eat my last meal close to bed time. I may do a sleep study because this is keeping a lot of extra fat on me.

[Giggle]

Let us know how the sleep study works out, BigMatt.
Interesting!