Anonymous wrote:
I know enough to not restrict all day and then eat the house down at night… that said, it is a fight every DAMN night not to “carb” myself to sleep. It really feels like the natural way for me to get to sleep. Multiple slices of sourdough toast and butter, leftover pizza, peanut butter in a tortilla - they all seem perfectly reasonable to my disordered brain after a substantial balanced dinner and fruit for dessert. I do not feel sick after, just unhappy because of calories consumed. I feel sleepy.
I exercise in the morning. At night I take a hot shower,, sip tea, read, etc. and toss and turn and think about crackers. I feel like thin women secretly take sleeping pills. Not really, but how do you sleep?
The less I eat the better I sleep. When I’m dieting I literally do not have enough energy to stay awake at night and fall asleep early due to lack of calories.
But I generally I deal with hunger best by preventing it and never getting too hungry. I only go hungry at night after 6 or 7 PM.