This document provides 100 potential solutions for preventing nighttime eating cravings and snacking. Some suggestions include using a shock collar to deter fridge opening, locking food away, establishing a strict eating schedule, drinking water instead of snacking, keeping a colder room temperature, and brushing teeth multiple times at night to discourage late-night eating. Many solutions involve making food less accessible or appealing in the evenings.

1. 100 (or close enough) (potential) Solutions
- Shock collar – effective every time you come close to the fridge after an established hour.
- Putting a lock on any door behind which you could find food.
- Stick to a diet.
- Get rid of all junk food in ther house and substitute for healthier foods.
- Drink water whenever you feel like eating something after dinner.
- Get creative and make junk food healthier: oatmeal cookies, fat free milk, etc.
- Have a late dinner, so you won’t find yourself looking for food later in the night.
- Only drink warm milk after dinner, instead of actually eating something.
- Establish a rigorous schedule, and stick to it with religious fervor.
- Establish a sweets, sugar, and/or similar foods deadline: a defined time after which you
can’t ingest any of the above.
- Don´t drink coffee or sodas at night; they could keep you up and increase probabilities of
your eating later in the night.
- Leave all junk food in unlikely, hard-to-reach places.
- Hide all junk food – you could forget where you left it and not be encouraged to look for it.
- Don’t eat cheese at night.
- Sleeping pills, so as to have an inalterable sleeping schedule.
- Say ‘no’ to all dinner invitations that might imply you eating more and/or unhealthier
food.
- If you plan on going out until late at night, eat a mid-afternoon snack, so your body has
some preparation for the longer period of time you’ll be awake.
- Don’t eat; take a long, relaxing bath before bed instead.
- Listening to relaxing music long before bed, so you’ll be less tense and anxious, and less
likely to eat.
- Keep a colder temperature in your room; it tends to help induce sleep.
- Brush your teeth more than once during the night. It will make any drinks or food more
disagreeable to taste.
- Don’t exercise before going to bed.
- Dim the lights in your room, long before you actually settle for sleep.
- Try reading as a distraction if you feel hungry.
- Practice relaxation exercises before going to bed.
- Practice breathing exercises before going to bed: breathing deeply and otherwise.
- Shut your mouth close with masking tape after dinner.
- Try hypnotizing yourself to avoid cravings.
- Try counting sheep upon feeling craving before going to bed.
- Drink hot tea before sleep.
- Practice appetite and craving control exercises (waiting it out, distraction, etc.).
- Catch up on the negative side effects of eating too late at night, so as to induce some fear.
- Wear a clinical device on your teeth that makes it harder to eat, even if it is like a
prosthetics.

2. - Over eat on purpose for dinner.
- Every time you feel a craving, talk to a friend, even if it is about it, so as to receive some
support while also being distracted.
- Try taking small walks in your garden or street before going to bed.
- Alter your sleeping patterns on purpose.
- Punish yourself every time you eat after dinner.
- Create a reward system for every craving after dinner that you manage to overcome.
- Have an alarm that, after a given hour, scolds you for opening the fridge.
- Get rid of all the food that could contribute to your sleeplessness.
- Split your dinner in two portions, wait a relatively short time in between portions so as to
avoid being hungry later in the night.
- Take a spoonful of olive oil or lemon when you feel a craving. It will ruin your appetite.
- Do a list of all you’ve eaten during the day so you can ponder if your body really needs
more energy or if it’s merely anxious or stressful eating.
- Lock yourself up in your room; avoid leaving it at all costs after dinner.
- Think about your crush, girlfriend/boyfriend, loved one, etc. – in a crazy, dreamful, and
paranoid way. The nerves will keep you from enjoying anything you eat.
- Do a pro´s and con´s list regarding eating before bed: this way you’ll be reminded of its
consequences.
- Make something complicated out of getting to the kitchen: set up traps, obstacles, etc.
- Get a roommate struggling with midnight cravings too: it’ll be the best support group
possible.
- Talk to a psychologists about possible explanations for your cravings and their
recommended solutions.
- Eat a strong mint every time you feel like eating late at night.
- Chew on something whenever you get hungry after dinner: a piece of cloth, plastic, a
small, cleansed pebble, etc.
- Switch your plates for smaller ones. It will force you to eat smaller portions.
- Make a list of the all the things you’d like to eat before going to bed and stick to only a
small portion of one of them.
- Increase the amount of food per meal and snacks you have during the day, so by nightfall
you’ll feel fuller.
- Carry a thermos with water around your house, drinking from it throughout the night will
make you feel full.
- With the aid of a professional, make a diet that is entirely made around avoiding any
products that might make you stay up at night.
- If you can’t fit an exercise routine into your day, try to stay active by: using the stairs,
doing squats whenever possible, etc.: choosing the hard way.
- Avoid lettuce at night.
- Accompany your dinner with some alcohol: a glass of wine, a beer, or other, might help
make you sleepy.

3. - Tell someone to slap you on the hand every time you want to eat something that could
contribute to staying up at night.
- Keep reminders on your belongings of good advice regarding your diet and physical
activity during the day.
- Bite an onion after every dinner: it will make everything else taste funny.
- Find vitamin and minerals in pills, to take as supplements, that don’t taste so good, so
their lingering flavor in your mouth will spoil your appetite.
- Keep an empty kitchen and eat out as much as possible: when you look for food, there’ll
be none.
- Set up, in the entrance to your kitchen, loud toys and any other devices that may be noisy
and loud when stepped on, so you will be discouraged to go rummaging during the night.
- Place something stinky and/or rotten in your kitchen, after dinner, so you’ll be
discouraged to be there.
- Choose an activity that does not involve movement to practice before going to bed
(watching a movie, reading, etc.) and tie your feet and/or hands before doing it, after
dinner, so you’ll have to undo it before you can eat.
- Watch anything that’ll kill your appetite, be it food related or not: for example, medical
reality TV, documentaries such as ‘Super Size Me’.
- Place legos all over the floor in the way of where you are to where you keep your food,
after dinner, after you’ve shut down all the lights – you’ll see them next morning, but
they’ll be a weapon at night.
- Substitute some fruits for vegetables in your diet; fruits tend to have higher sugar content.
- Don’t mix sweets with sweets; rather, accompany meals with something sweet so its
impact won’t be as strong.
- Substitute all your coffees for decafs.
- Avoid chocolate or similar sweets.
- Don’t eat pasta at night, since it is a heavier kind of meal.