I get hungry alot at MidNight.. Advice please!

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Mohd917

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Hello everyone..

Im 16 years old and i weigh 300 LB ( Pound ) :(.. i know its really bad but i never thought of losing my weight until now, and im really looking forward to it so i can return like i was before...:puke:

So my problem is that i get REALLY hungry at late night like 12:00 - 2:00 AM!
and i begin calling for fast food :(..While playing games on the Computer..And i dont know weather to sign up in a gym or go walking around near my house.

And i dont know alot about carbs and calories contained in food i eat :/.. Thats why i keep gaining weight.. anyone can please help me?

any contribution is nice :)..

Thanks
 
Spend time reading the stickied threads -they will help you LEARN about calories and carbs -that's your first step..

Try going to bed at a reasonable hour - turn off the computer and sleep.
get up at a reasonable hour and exercise.

Plus WHEN you start READING THE STICKIES ans LEARNING... you wil lfind that it's not when you eat the calories that are makign you fat it's how many.

Start in nutrition and move on to Words of Wisdom in ON topic
Ask questions inthose thrreads on what you don't understande
 
A lot of people have mentioned proteins making them feel full for longer. So perhaps if you were to have a chicken breast for dinner as opposed to say, pasta, you wouldn't feel hungry late at night. However i definitely second going to bed earlier.
 
Soy Yuck

Here are a couple of things I learned and helped me out a lot. Never eat fruits and veggie on the same plate, never within an hour of each other. Also as for an easy protein change, purchase soy milk or rice milk with vanilla. Add frozen fruit, bananas and or strawberries, blend. It sounds bad but it is good, protein change is hard but let me tell you it works. I also found that keeping a picture of me when I was heavy close in a mirror was good incentive. I also took weekly pictures on my digital to track my progress. If you get hungry at night then have a bowl of Cheerios. The most important thing is to remember, you are doing this for you and it will take a while, when you get low about it or get depressed about results not being fast enough, to quick of weight loss is just as unhealthy as no weight loss. And start out slow exercising. Maybe get a few 5 lb wts to carry around when you take a 5 min walk. See my profile. I took me a couple of years after I figured it out to go from 180 to 130 and stay there.
 
Eat small amount of things with protein to fight hunger pains...try a handful of lightly salted peanuts? Of course, that isn't the healthiest thing you could choose...but one step at a time! Otherwise you'll get frustrated and give up.
 
One of the most difficult things to overcome in achieving a change of diet and lifestyle is:

The food craving.

When deficit dieting the food craving is going to come. Do not be surprised. This is normal, and its one you have no choice but to deal with.

In order to control or attempt to eliminate your cravings, you need to understand why you have them and get-over-it through proactive self-participation, which is completed through: EDUCATION.

Knowledge is power. Consistent application of this power, will give one a lethal dose to food cravings and provide strength and dexterity to one's goal path. Always seek to obtain knowledge in the problems you are experiencing and what you are attempting to do.


Why (IMO) one can have cravings when deficit dieting:

1. The body is deficient in energy (calories) and has to look to itself for a source of energy (be it muscle and/or fat source). The body is literally feeding on itself to provide vitality in response to a energy shortage and is trying to meet the outside/inside demands placed upon it, adapting, overcoming, and trying to get into a state of homeostasis.


2. Sometimes unstable blood sugar levels can cause intense hunger cravings. The more stable the human blood sugar the more "stable" your hunger cravings will be. Sharp increases and declines in blood sugar levels can give one intense hunger pains that can be difficult to overcome.

The way you can combat this problem, is through understanding various food items and the big three macronutrients: Carbs, Protein, and Fats, and how they "can effect" one's blood sugar levels. And, knowing WHEN its appropriate to have an increase in blood sugar levels and when its not, and how to attempt to manage trying to level them out.


For example:

Post workout nutrition. One just got done with a rather demanding fitness workout, and placed alot of demand on the body and its muscles. The muscles are depleted and broken down. There is a need of replacement nutrition, and it should be given rather quickly. It is a good time to consume fruits (simple carbs [sugars]), and protein, at this time. The "correct fruit" will elevate blood sugar rather quickly and since the body is in "present need" will shuttle the appropriate carbs where needed, and this isn't detrimental nor will add to one's hunger complications.

If anything, IMO, I believe it would "assist" against hunger cravings (later) because you are giving the body what it needs at the appropriate time and will not yell at you later or be an "assistor in lowering your energy levels" by continuing to be broken down through inadequate and timely nutrition.

Eating frequent meals with adequate and selective food items "can be" a major piece in your "hunger puzzle". You determine your Maintenance Line of Calories, and divide the number of meals with your Maintenance Line of Calories to determine the approximate number of calories per meal.

Eating frequent meals is great in an ideal and perfect world. However, we all know we live in an imperfect world that can disrupt what we do, and eating frequently as planned is one of them. This can cause one to "improvise" and "adjust" on-the-fly, and "should be" expected and not lead one to surprise.

While eating frequent meals is recommended, if this cant happen or is disrupted in some way, and you had to adjust, this ISNT going to make you hit the curb on your fat loss quest. The most important factor when the dust settles, is whether one IS or IS NOT in an energy deficit at the end of the day. In some cases, having eating patterns irregular can assist one in fat loss dependent on dieting logistics. Just try to eat as often as your lifestyle allows adjust your meals when you have to--with applying knowledge learned.

3. Lets add 1 and 2 together. If the body is deficient in energy levels and being forced to locate fuel from itself (deficit in calories)--and--the blood sugar levels are sharply increasing and declining (at times), "this is a most deadly combination to cause intense hunger cravings". Not mention having a possible effect on your mood, and energy levels.


4. Even if you level blood sugar (through what you eat within your diet and calorie manipulations), one will still be left with the body being deficient in energy, and will be calling on you to eat; however, its the lesser of the two, IMO, and is the place one wants to be at most of the time when deficit dieting to lose fat tissue, as it is truly easier to deal with.

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On-going and continued education in:

1. Information on various techniques to combat cravings.

Read, read, and read some more. Absorb it and apply it. When you read an article on certain techniques to handle food cravings, and it appears it may not fit within your life style, is their a way you can:

A. Modify, change, or manipulate the idea or concept in some fashion to work with your personality and within your current lifestyle?

KEEP YOUR PERCEPTION UNTAINTED.​


B. Manipulate lite fitness training to your goal advantage?

Sometimes just keeping the mind occupied on something else for a small duration of time can be enough to combat the current food craving and reduce it to tolerable levels; however, this can require a certain amount of self discipline (along with manipulating your foods to your advantage) in order to be successful.

You could jump on a bike for very Lite cardio session (a few minutes), and consume a no-calorie or very low calorie beverage to fill the stomach and get the blood pumped. Take a walk. Play a video game you like, and on and on with the potential possibilities.

Look within your environment and see things others cant see--that will assist you toward your goal path.

Develop clear stategies to deal with weaknesses. Allow your strengths to improve your weaknesses. And, you can use FOOD to assist your weakness by using your strength of being proactive.

Some proactive anti-food craving tactics:

When you view the following, I would like you to keep an open mind and think about ways you can manipulate this information to fit within the circumference of your personal life style. In other words, you can take some or all of the information and modify/change them to a degree that is more applicable or suitable to your individual environment.

A. Change your frame of mind when going to the grocery store:

--->1. Hunger Defense Perception One:

Look for food items that are bulky (that will fill a large portion of the stomach capacity) and carry the nutritional quality that fits within the macronutrient value you seek (all macronutrients), that fit within your life style for:

A. Home.
B. Work.
C. School.

Educate yourself on various types of foods that take long periods (or a longer period, if you will) to digest than others. that fits in the health and nutrition scope you personally seek.



Investigate the "reasons" why this is case, though investigating the nutrients in these types of food. For example, "fiber rich" foods can take longer to digest and give a sense of being full.

(If you want I can provide a list of suggestions)

--->2. Hunger Defense Perception Two:

Specific shelf and refrigerator items specifically purchased to assist one's self during the times when food cravings are a problem. These are bulking items that are low in calorie content BUT carry a nutritional punch in accordance to its caloric value.

1. When hunger is a problem its important to know where you are at in your diet in the calorie equation, in order to "effectively" use one of your proactive and goal-keeping food purchases for:

A. Home.
B. Work.
C. School

(If you want I can provide a list of suggestions)
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Best wishes to your continued success:

Chillen
 
ChristiH said:
Here are a couple of things I learned and helped me out a lot. Never eat fruits and veggie on the same plate, never within an hour of each other.
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wtf, why wouldnt you eat them together? I even googled them and came up with this


ChristiH said:
Also as for an easy protein change, purchase soy milk or rice milk with vanilla.
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why would you want to change protein?

I would stick to listening to the people which a higher post count to be honest, and definitely read the stickies :)
 
Challenge yourself to limiting your calories to 300 a night for snacks to get a little discipline started. I don't care if it's McDonalds. 300 cals there is one hamburger, no fries and no sugar drinks.

Now if you're still hungry because one measly lil ol hamburger didn't get the job done then that means you need a different snack which will send you into the think tank looking for more volume of lower cal snacks.

Maybe 2 bananas and 1 apple spaced out over 12:00 to 2:00 (essentially having three snacks) will be more satisfying to your hunger because you ate more volume. There's really a million different combos you can invent.

I hope you get a hold of yourself soon. You know anything about diabetes ??
 
If you can't go to bed any earlier then make a commitment to at least not order fast food.

Have something healthy. Just do not eat fast food!!!!

Try a cup of tea and some toast on soy and linseed bread, vege sticks and hommus, a bowl of vege soup.
 
I know this sounds crazy but it helps to just drink a glass of water or a glass of juice before eating or when you get a craving. It tricks your mind into thinking you are full
 
I also second the motion that you NEED to be getting to bed earlier. it's a lot harder to lose weight when your lacking sleep and tired all the time. and if your not lacking sleep and just sleeping through the afternoon thats a very lazy way to start your day in the first place.
second, keep it simple. take a walk every day. bring some music to entertain yourself if you need and maybe try stuff with a faster paced beat. i find myself naturally trying to move with the beat so it might help you to do more brisk walking then a slow casul walk..
finally as others said it's not when you eat, its what you eat. my suggestion is usually low fat popcorn or single serving sized regular popcorn. it keeps your hands and mouth busy for a long period of time without a whole lot of calories. about the same or less than a sigle slice of pizza. accompany it with a bottle of water and by the time your done you should definately be satisfied or at least tired of eating. also try to only pick up and eat a piece or 2 at a time. avoid picking up a handful and shoving it into your mouth as you chew like a conveyor belt (my husband does this, i used to)....
 
I suggest you try going to be early. If you like playing on the computer try to change your hours so you don't stay awake late nights. But if it can't be helped, try drinking water instead of eating, plus it will be advisable if you can exercise as well, start with baby steps until you can reach your goals. Try exercising for 30 mins a day first then add more minutes to it slowly... until you reach a certain goal.
 
I usually keep dark chocolate on hand for times when I get cravings and I know I shouldn't be hungry. One square does it, I just enjoy it and eat it slowly; if I stuck the whole thing in my mouth I'd probably end up eating the whole bar :p

As others have suggested drinking water or juice will help too. As long as you're eating healthy/enough during the day the biggest thing you need to realize is that the food you're ordering at night isn't necessary, it's just something you want. If you also want to be healthy then you need to reevaluate your desires and figure out which ones are most important to you. You can eat crap today, or you can live a healthier life tomorrow.
 
Well considering I'm to lazy to read what everyone else have put
I'll tell you some stuff that helps me. (= Well I'm 15 so around your age
so I know whats it like. Get more sleep and go to bed earlier that
makes a HUGE differnce, it's important for your health also. Instead
of going for fast foods go for the vegies and fruits, or low calorie snacks.(Now just because its low caliore it doesn't mean its nasty I've found snacks that taste a
hella lot better then the high calorie stuff.) Oh, make sure you have the 3meals of course.
DRINK LOTS AND LOTS OF STUFF. mainly water, some milk (fat free) and diet
soda's that right there will help tremendously. If you can't do this alone what
I would suggest is joing a weight watchers. I've lost around 20-25lbs so far,
and it really does help change how you eat. I eat smaller portions without
trying anymore it just comes naturally. I hope that helps some. Oh,
and with walking omg walking helps a lot too. xD That's what I do at
first I tried going on a tridmil and then a excirse bike blah to broing. So I just
take my mp3 and go for a nice walk, a started off only around my complex now
i go around that and up this trail and walk back in another 2 or 3 weeks im gonna make it longer. Make sure you start of small and slowly add on. You'll see results.
If you ever need to talk to someone for support on a one to one basis msg me.
 
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Hi and welcome, I'd say that you don't HAVE to join a gym, if you want to that is fine, walking outside works just as well, especially if you live in a good climate.

You also have to find the eating plan that works best for you. There is some good advice here and some that I would not buy, like the veggie/fruit thing together. I managed to lose 45 lbs by drinking green smoothies, and never had any problems with digestion or anything else.

Keep reading stuff here, you will learn a lot and get a lot of motivation.

And I'll chime in as well with the going to bed earlier. I make sure my son is in bed before 11pm on school days. He's on the computer a lot too. That computer sure is causing a lot of problem for our youth. Less movement = more weight gain.
 
why not you try some yougurt with cucumber with little olive oil ... really helpfull and contains protein, carb and the good fat.
 
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