To succeed at weight loss, you'll need to stop eating two, preferably three, hours before going to sleep. You may feel slightly hungry, but that's exactly how I want you to feel.
I never want you to feel ravenous when you go to bed at night. But wanting a little something is just fine. When you're trying to lose weight, slipping into bed at night feeling slightly hungry (the British have a perfect word for it - peckish) is actually a good thing. It's your body telling you that what you did that day is working - you're losing body fat. If you don't feel this way, you're probably not losing fat.
Start with a cutoff time of two hours before bed; then, as it becomes easier, see if you can stop eating two and a half hours pre-sleep. If you can make it to three hours, even better.
This little step can have a big payoff. A large percentage of my clients have found that establishing a cutoff time was all they needed to do to meet their weight loss goals. Others have needed to make additional changes as well, but everybody who quit late-night eating found that it translated into some weight loss.
If you want to shed some pounds, go to bed feeling a little peckish. I'm confident that you'll see results.
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