Night eating...

I always seem to eat too much at dinner.  I do wonderful all day long, and I feel like I blow it at night.  I'm not eating the wrong things, jus too much I think.  And I think it's not eat hunger.  How can I battle this?

I would start by measuring what you should eat (for me it's 3-4 ounces), putting that on your plate, and then putting the extra food back in the fridge.  Eat what's on your plate and that's it.  We don't have meals family style anymore, since I'm too inclined to grab "just one more bite" if the food is on a serving dish on the table.  Everything gets served from the kitchen now and if people want seconds they have to get up to get them.  

This certainly helps me!

I pretty much do that.  Maybe it's just all in my head!

I'm confused.  If you're portioning the right amount out for yourself, how can you be eating too much?  Are you getting up for seconds?  

I'm a bit confused as well.  Is your issue that you're eating too much and not portioning properly or is your night eating resulting in an extra meal and therefore more calories?

Be very careful that you're not slipping into restricting-my-food-even-more-is-good mentality.  People naturally eat small breakfasts, moderate lunches and larger dinners.  You are doing fine as long as you are weighing/measuring your amounts and staying within your surgeon's guidelines for protein and carb counts.   

As we get further out it starts to get a little scary when we can actually eat more and then DO eat more.  But you're not "blowing" it at night by doing that.  Even if you aren't physically hungry you MUST feed your body the nutrition it needs to do it's job and make repairs to the body while you sleep.   

The real signs that you're eating too much:  vomiting, getting the foamies/slimies, feeling super uncomfortable or full.  IF you are having those feelings then yes, you may be eating too much.  Otherwise, you are worrying over nothing.