Eating And Sleeping Patterns

[Finchlet2]

I think my eating patterns are so f*cked up because my sleep patterns are. I never eat anything untill about 7pm and then eat the world u ntill 10pm. I think this is partially due to never having any adult food at home through fear of going shopping and only remembering kids food when I'm out and flustered but also due to the fact I don't sleep till about 4am and nap in the day. Would love to hear about you guys patterns with food and sleep xx

 

[Teamwork]

I sleep when I feel I can agree to do it and stay with it. Food! My worst nightmare. I have fixed a lot of it by keeping the two of the three meals the same. I eat the same breakfast everyday and for lunch now that I am using a juicer to make juice I feel I've got that meal covered. I just make a jug that will last a few days and pour a drink for lunch. I don't have to worry about breakfast as long as I keep a stock of the cereal I eat on hand and bananas and milk. The only way that I was able to get success was to decide what I would eat so I didn't have to decide when it actually came time to eat. If I had to make that decision every time I was supposed to eat I probably wouldn't get much eating in as, as soon as I can't decide I typically walk away and don't complete the task.

 

[Friday]

My eating & sleeping both go sideways when I'm doing badly.

Not related to the time of day, though. I've worked nights for years, worked swing, worked days. Meals just get shifted to the hours I'm operating on. My mom gets all weird when I'm having breakfast at midnight or whatever (You're eating again??? How can you be eating at this hour? Why on earth would you be eating now???) Hello. This is when I wake up, why is what I eat when even on your radar??? :rolleyes: My personal favorite is when she wakes me up 3 hours after I've gone to bed for "dinner" and complains I'm sleeping the day away. Mom. I work nights. I sleep in the daytime. (That can't be healthy! You need to stop sleeping your life away!) What's not healthy is only getting 3 hours of sleep. Go. Away.

 

[lil_fighter]

Lately, after a setback, my sleep routine has been all over the place. In a way it's good that I am not working at the moment. Gives me time to try to get back on track before I find another job. Some nights I won't sleep at all until it starts getting light outside (7am or 8am) sometimes it will be later. Then because I may not have slept the night before either (tends to run in 2 day intervals of no sleep) I fall asleep in the morning until maybe 1pm because I have set an alarm, then maybe I'll add on a couple of extra hours sleep and wake up at 3pm or 4pm (by which time it's getting dark). On these days, I'll automatically have breakfast when I get up even if this is at 4pm. Then my mum comes hone from work (I deliberately set the alarm for just before she gets home, otherwise lately the lonely feeling I'm getting since not working feels worse. I have met up with friends a few times but still feel lonely and just want to catch up on sleep at home. Then I'll have dinner at around 7pm. It's all very messed up at the moment. Been like this for a couple of weeks now so what I try to do is force myself to get up at 9am (even if I haven't slept all night) just to have breakfast. Even if I go back to bed to try to get some sleep, it's ok because when I get up again around 1pm at least I'm not really hungry.

I do think meal times play a big part in training your brain to get used to daytime / night time and routines which affects sleep.

 

[Finchlet2]

I can go ridiculous lengths of time without eating, I think partly due to lack of food growing up (I'm 26 I didn't grow up in a famine or ought just wasn't given access to food) but lately I've started panic binging in the night just before I try to go to sleep as if I'm going to never get hold of food again please help; anyone who gets this as I end up painfully full I was doubled over in pain for two hours last night.

 

[Teamwork]

With food, try the tactic of reminding yourself all the ways that you now have access to food and control of what you do or don't do with it as well as your likes and dislike. Take pride in the fact that you bought it yourself and reclaim it as yours. Keep encouraging yourself that it's yours and as long as you provide it, it's not going anywhere. One step at time.

 

[Amethyst]

I have depressive symptoms that come and go. When I'm in a "depressed" state, which usually lasts a week or two at a time, I could sleep for days and still be tired. I also don't have much interest in food and rarely feel hungry, but I make myself eat to keep my weight at least 100 lbs. When I'm not feeling depressed, which is most of the time, I only sleep for 3 to 5 hours per night and then maybe another hour or two during the day. I have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep and I tend to eat more since I'm awake for more hours. My weight is usually between 103 and 105 and I don't have to worry about it.