Night eating and night binges are quite common to dieters in general. It happens, and it’s hard to combat. There are some diet pills that work at night to supposedly help you to lose weight that effortlessly partly by controlling your night binges.  And of course there are reports of prescription sleep aid Ambien actually making people sleep walk and go on random eating binges, one even reporting buttering an entire loaf of bread each night and then taking one bite out of each piece. I was rather entertained by that.

But the reality is that if you have this problem naturally, you should consider looking into the idea that you are not eating enough during the day. Your body will respond to this, whether you think that you have time to process the calories before you go to bed or not. All it’s thinking about is if it’s getting what it wants and needs in terms of caloric and volume of intake. Starvation mode may play a huge part in this.

If you are an athlete or dancer, this is definitely something to consider. While 1200-1500 calories is good for most, dancers are often burning off 3000 calories and athletes often burn off considerable amounts as well. This puts your body into starvation mode as it logically would because you’re not getting enough, and this may lead to night binging.

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