pattiimint
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I still struggle with it when I am very stressed. Sometimes I really think it has to do with an over active brain...we need sleep and I found that untill I took something to make me sleep, (first a sleeping pill then they put me on serequel for the bipolar and that makes me sleep)that I would wake up frequently...more so anyway then I do now. I find the worst part of it for me is to eat in the mornings or afternoons. I have to make myself eat then, so that I am not really hungry at night. But sometimes even that doesn't work. What I started to do before I had meds, was to drink a lot of water or milk before I slept. Then when I woke up in the night, I also had to pee, smiles, and that woke me up a little more, and I made better choices if I was infact going to eat. I try to drink a lot instead and not have trigger foods in my cupboard. If you have good snack food around...really good foods in your fridge and cupboard, then you don't feel as bad as if you eat a doz cookies or three peanutbutter laden toasts. The hardest part of this is the weight gain that occurs when I am eating at night. I find that it is usually durring a time when I am not exercising either...mostly it happens when I am in a down cycle...more depressed than manic. I hope this helps a little. You need to talk about it more, and figure out what you are thinking and feeling and what foods you are drawn to. Knowlege is power and when we feel powerful, we feel less vunerable to whats out there. Let me know if I can be anymore help hugs Pattii Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.
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