Sometimes (usually when I am having trouble sleeping, usually due to stress) I either wake up in the middle of the night, or lie awake in my bed for several hours and suddenly am overcome by an overwhelming case of the munchies. Like I feel like I may absolutely die if I don’t eat something right now.
Is this unusual? Is it a symptom of anything? (not looking for a diagnosis, but simply, is it a known potential symptom of anything)
I should add, it’s not like I just need a cracker to soothe it, it can sometimes turn into a bit of a binge as well.
Am I the only one who opened this thread expecting to read about the nocturnal activities of Gandhi and Bobby Sands?
How to Curb Those Carbohydrate Cravings!
There’s a jillion sites out there which discuss carb cravings. I picked this one pretty much at random, it may be FOS, but it sounds like carb cravings are what you’re asking about.
just a note… “hunger strike” refers to a fast, or a refusal to eat.
Haha, I’m another one who read the thread title as “hunger strike” as in Bobby Sands et al. I was thinking" but that’s silly - hunger strikers refuse to eat in the daytime too." Yes, I am slow of brain. :smack:
I’m not aware that it’s a symptom of anything, although someone knowledgable will no doubt arrive in a moment. I have always assumed that it’s to do with the fact that one is lying there, knowing one should be asleep, but sleep just isn’t happening, so maybe the brain tricks itself into suggesting some other desire/thing to attend to or whatever, food, cigarette, bathroom …
I do sort of think to myself" self - this is probably not healthy and you will get fat" but what the hell, lying awake wishing to sleep is enough not-fun, without lying awake tring to deny the wishing to eat thing. So I usually give into it, quite happily, thinking that the eating will take my mind of the sleep thing, and thus, perversely, make it all more likely to happen. (It’s great living alone - there’s no-one around to tell me off for stupid things like that)