omg

This is getting ridiculous. My night binges are to blame for my 10 lb and climbing, weight gain! I feel terrible about myself right now. I am about to see friends and family over thanksgiving who I havent seen in awhile and I am terrified about this because I know I will look HUGE to them. :( I exercise alot, 2 hours a day usually so it baffles me that Ive put on this much weight.

what gives? :( I need some advice and motivation fast.

I was prone to these too! I kept buying oreo cookies or sandwich cookies, and just binging every night on them! To be honest what helped me stop was not buying them anymore. I also try to go to sleep early, that way I'm not up and tempted! Plus the time between dinner and breakfast goes by way quicker lol! 

Beyond that what has really helped me is logging all of my calories. Its made me more aware of food. I am less prone now to be tempted by a cookie or a chocolate bar knowing that I have to spend 200+ of my precious calories lol. I try to eat foods that keep me full, like protein, beans etc. and am buying more whole grains too. 

My advice is just get rid of the temptation, that way you don't have to wrestle with your will, because (at least for me) my cravings (and rationalizations) tend to win. 

Two hours a day of exercise sounds excessive. Are you eating enough, and regularly, to support that much activity. Especially if you find yourself binging, I'd suspect (with what little info you provided) that you aren't eating enough during the day which is driving you to binge at night.

What are your stats and what is your calorie intake (goal and actual)?

What kind of exercise/intensity are you doing? I spent two hours on a bike and that burns around 1200-1400 calories. I watch my diet, but I eat A LOT and maintaining.

P.S. two hours a day is not excessive. Just depends on your goals.

UD

You're right, umneydurak - 2 hours isn't necessarily excessive. I was inferring by the way the OP wrote it that she felt it was a lot, but that she felt she had to work out that much to lose weight, which isn't necessarily true. And I assumed her goal is simply weight loss. :)

I am almost 5'9 around 145 (147 today..hoping its just a water weight day or something). I want to be 140 or 135..thats where I was at the beginging of September.

My night binging ususally is several peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches :( or cereal. I live in sorority house and we have a snack room filled with random things so the not buying items to keep me from being tempted idea doesnt really work for me...luckily I will be living in London next semester with my own kitchen so that will change things a bit. What should I do in the meantime? I really want to be 5 lbs lighter (at least) by xmas.

In terms of not eating enough during the day, I thought that too so I started increasing my calorie in-take during the day and that didn't change the night bingeing thing. It like takes over..sometimes I end up in the kitchen with food in my hand and I don't even know how I got there. Its a bazaar phneonmena.

I used to have chocolate cravings at night and have the urge to binge so now I make a cup of sugar free hot chocolate (made with water instead of milk) and drop some strawberries into it. It works as a double snack you get hot cocoa that is sweetened by the strawberries making strawberry cocoa and at the end you get chocolate covered strawberries... well chocolate soaked strawberries but it's super yummy and strangely filling.

Can't really help with the why but this is a great solution that I came up with to help me.

My son does the hungry before bed thing.  I was told to feed him only low or non fat protein foods such as cottage cheese.  This was because it takes longer to digest.  It has worked for him in that he doesn't wake up throughout the night hungry.  And he is not so hungry in the morning.

5'9 and 145 sounds perfect. Maybe you are finding out that trying to maintain too low a weight is unhealthy and your body is trying to gain back the weight it needs. No way someone at 5'9 and 145 could look "huge," so maybe you just need a reality check! That's about ideal--and in the lower end of a healthy bmi. You could focus on regaining control and maintaining this new weight and see if that works. You could be undereating to keep your weight so low at 135/140.