I wanted to add to this night eating thread. From the research I've done, night eating is different from "sleep eating", which seems to be what I do from what I've read. I get up, and in a semi-hypnotic state, find food that is only carbs or sweet, eat it, often bringing it to bed with me, then in the morning finding candy wrappers, half cookies or half bagels next to me. I totally associate it with when I went on the sleep drugs that are hypnotics -- lunesta and ambien. (I also take klonapin at night and I think it all got worse when I began the second drug as well.) Lately I've been trying very hard to take herbal sleep meds instead of any of the hypnotics and my sleep eating improves. However, I have sleep-eaten for years, and like I said before, if a licensed hypnotist has had no luck whatsoever stopping it, all I can do is to try to give up lunesta and ambien completely, but which might mean I don't ever get decent sleep. Sigh.

BTW, I exercise hard almost every day, I get up early, I never nap, and my only bad habit is coffee, but I cut that off after 4 pm.