late night eating

Try it and see how it works for you. I don't have a problem but others stop eating earlier in the evening.

kathy

For me I cannot eat a lot late at night. It just makes me feel very uncomfortable. I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago and did not get served dinner until 9:00. I was up all night long in the bathroom. But if I just had an ice cream cone or something small like that, I'd be fine.

I am always up once if I have a late snack or not. You just get used to it.

If I don't want to have a bm at night, I try not to eat after 8 PM. If I don't mind getting up during the night (weekends or when I'm on vacation and I know I can sleep later), I'll snack right up to bed time. Of course, now that I'm older and have to get up to pee every night anyhow, I'm not sure it matters so much anymore...lol. Kind Regards, Steve

I can't sleep if I won't have a snack before bedtime

very very rarely I get up at night because of it.

I think if you teach your pouch to hold at night , eventually you won't get up at nights.
maybe it won't work for everyone or for people who have pouches for a long time.

No. Eat little to nothing if you do.

I rarely have problems eating late at night, do it most nights, not a big meal but something like a couple of crispbread, cheese and a sweet biscuit; but then I do have a very well behaved pouch, don't even need to take any medication either.

The evenings I have an early, very, very light to no dinner I sleep better and rarely have to get up during the night. However, that is not my usual habit and guess I'm willing to pay the price.....2-3 "ups" during the night....brief, but up none the less.

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I think if you teach your pouch to hold at night

It's an interesting concept to think of your pouch as being like a puppy that can be taught tricks. One trick I have taught mine in the past is how to digest an entire pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream at bedtime. In fact my pouch learned the trick well. But I think this is sort of like a stupid pet trick.....one my pouch really did not need to learn.

These days all I take at bedtime is two metamucil wafers. And sometimes a little yogurt with the wafers.

I'm able to eat a light snack before bed time (ice cream is one of my favorites). As long as it's not a full meal, I'm generally ok. I need to get up once at night whether I eat a snack at night or not.

I can eat a small snack before bed if I have eaten before 6pm and it doesn't affect the 1-2 times I am getting up anyhow.

Every single time I eat dinner after 7pm I have a miserable night and usually have at least a small accident, rarely a larger accident. Snacks have no bearing on this, either, for me it's dinner timing that's the dealbreaker.

Keeping in mind that instead of the volume of a large intestine you now have something the size of your hand I would limit how much you eat in the evening.

As with many things, this is also very individual. I don't really have an official "cut off time." I often do eat later in the evening. This does have a lot to do with my schedule, in that a few nights per week I don't get home until after 8, and I need to have a later dinner. Strangely enough, whether I eat earlier/later doesn't seem to really affect my nighttime trips. I'm up about once a night half the time, regardless of when/what I ate. Then again, as I mentioned in another recent thread, I usually eat smaller amounts at a time, so that might have something to do with it, too; that is to say, maybe it's not so much when I'm eating, but how much at one time.

Anyway, the point is, you could try it and see how it affects you. Possibly you might have no issues, but you'll never know unless you give it a go!

I eat what I want, when I want. Pizza before bed, no problem. Ice cream, no problem.

It doesn't bother me to get up once a night to go to the bathroom. The key is don't turn the lights on. I fall right back to sleep easy.