You Think You Got It poor with Calorie Consumption….
Wow, that is one of those stories where you thank the stars that you don’t have some obscure and weird disorder like that, considering it can definitely mess with your attempts at maintaining health and your weight at a fair point all through your life. Have you ever heard of “sleep eating”? Well, it’s a mold of sleep walking, only folks actually wake up and raid the referigerator and eat anything they want, but don’t actually have a conscious memory of doing so.
At least so they say they don’t! that is supposedly a real disorder though, and a real concern, particularly since some patients with that problem can consume hundred or, like that woman, thousands, of calories without even consciously making the decision or enjoying. Jeesh, I hope she at least gets some enjoyment out of it, I know I’d want to! Can you imagine how many hours of exercise you’d have to do to counteract that level of calorie consumption? Many, many hours my friend!
There is actually a medically assigned name to the aforementioned sleep eating disorder, it’s called SRED, Sleep Related Eating Disorder, and it can cause folks to pile on pounds at alarming rates considering A, they are eating a lot of calories and soon after going straight back to bed, not burning anything off, and B, they are not consciously making good decisions about the foods they choose when they go on their midnight binges, nor are they restricting their calories, instead they are unleashing the worst eating habits without any consequence thoughts of their actions in eating the wrong foods.
The poor woman that I read about would eat anything in her fridge, even just butter, considering she wasn’t even conscious of what she was eating, and piled on many pounds in just one month without knowing why – at least at first until she started putting the pieces of the puzzle together and realized she was raiding her cupboards and fridge at night – I mean, how could you not notice that after a while?
She said that she tried everything from putting locks on her cupboards and fridge and plus taking medications so that she would sleep straight through and not go on her weird eating binges, but nothing worked and her health continued to suffer considering of her nightly habit. She plus tried reducing the amount of food that she keeps in her cupboard, but that did not work either. It seems that is a difficult thing to treat, seeing how only a tiny percent of the population suffers from it which probably doesn’t build it a high priority for a cure in the medical research arena.
Original post by EatingToLive
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