Do you wake up starving...

[horsepwr]

in the middle of the night?
I've been doing this for years now. I wake up anywhere between 11pm and 2am hungry as hell. Sometimes I just want some good left overs, or something out of the pantry, sometimes I'm craving sweets. and I'm legitmately hungry. It's not just a mental thing. My stomach is actually growling to the point I can't just roll over and go back to sleep.
I'm glad I like protein shakes like I do or I would eat every bucket of cotton candy we get, marshmellow cream, whatever when I'm craving sweets. I can't lie. I will grab a handfull of cotton candy sometimes. I've quit getting it for my daughter because of that. She doesn't hardly eat any, so there's a whole bucket staring at me. Again though, Muscle Milk takes care of the sweet tooth thankfully.
You'd think I went to bed hungry, by the way I tear it up mid-night. Not by any means though. I even make sure to top off before I get in bed.

I guess if I didn't need it, I wouldn't wake up hungry.

[FUZO]

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every night around 2-3 I get up and eat a muffin and then some fiber yougurt

[daved150]

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just in the morning...5-6am

[horsepwr]

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just in the morning...5-6am

and I've lost my breakfast hunger, most of the time. I just crave coffee when I wake up. I'm probably still full from the night feast.
My body probably uses up my dinner and everything post workout. That's probably why I have to eat mid-night. Then that food sticks with me.

[jipped genes]

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it is a curse my wife does not understand.

she tells me just to go back to sleep but its hard when it feels like a wolverine is trying gnaw out of my gut

i eat a 1/4 chicken breast and drink a glass of water with fiber to fill my stomach

[horsepwr]

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yeah, I hit 200lbs a couple weeks ago, but I wasn't comfy with not seeing any definition, so I'm making sure now to just do the shake or eat no simple carb, and I try not to eat alot of carbs, period, at that time of night, but I eat high carb everything. so it can be difficult.
I'm back down to 195 and putting the right weight on now. I've never been too concerned with being pretty though.like pretty-boy muscles. I just don't like being narrow. And on the other hand, I don't want a gut.

[jamescb77]

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i can say that i have never had this problem. However when i wake up in the morning at about 6 it's time to eat

[daved150]

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yeah, I hit 200lbs a couple weeks ago, but I wasn't comfy with not seeing any definition, so I'm making sure now to just do the shake or eat no simple carb, and I try not to eat alot of carbs, period, at that time of night, but I eat high carb everything. so it can be difficult.
I'm back down to 195 and putting the right weight on now. I've never been too concerned with being pretty though.like pretty-boy muscles. I just don't like being narrow. And on the other hand, I don't want a gut.

pfft....no threat in that!!! i've seen your pics, lol!!!!

[horsepwr]

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pfft....no threat in that!!! i've seen your pics, lol!!!!

yahhhaaa...I shoulda seen that truck comin

[AmericanViking]

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I get the late night hunger also. Usually around 2AM or so. Sometimes I'm sleepy enough to roll over and forget it. But a lot of the time I have to grab something to eat.

[horsepwr]

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I get the late night hunger also. Usually around 2AM or so. Sometimes I'm sleepy enough to roll over and forget it. But a lot of the time I have to grab something to eat.

I'd have to say right around 2am is the most usual time that it hits me too. As a matter of fact, it was just after 2 this morning again.

Do you consider yourself to have a somewhat fast metabolism?

[Ropie11]

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For me, the more I eat at night, the hungrier I get during the night!?!?

For the most part, my last "meal" is usually a cup of greek yogurt with some fiber one cereal in it, and this holds me over until the morning.

BUT, if I do wake up in the middle of the night hungry, I usually have part of a banana, and I am good to go.

[dixiechick]

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I get the 2am munchies too. Somewhere about that time I get hungry. I can usually roll over and go back to sleep, but when I'm only a few weeks out from a competition, I will get so hungry that it will keep me awake.

[skinnyman]

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during the day i eat smaller meals every 2.5 hrs. so come nightime i need something to hold me over. sometimes a low card protien bar. however i am not functioning by 8pm so by 4am i am starving. if i get up in the middle of the night, i will have a small glass of milk and a scoop of organic peanut butter