Stop Night Eating Program- How a Successful Stop Night Eating Program Works

If you are interested in how a successful stop night eating program works, you might look first at how unsuccessful programs are structured, what they contain and generally into what you should avoid. After all, there are many wanting to stop night eating and lose weight- but, unfortunately, mostly unsuccessful. So what is to avoid in a stop night eating program?

Successful Stop Night Eating Program- Don’t Jump Into Action

First, you do not want to jump into action head over heels. I know, you are reading this because you want to get rid of the effects of late night eating, and you understand you have to do something because it can’t go on any longer. But trust me on this: Unprepared action is a recipe for disaster, should not be part of a stop night eating program and will not help you to lose weight.

A friend of mine tends to talk of the 7 P: “Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance”. And if you are a night eater it is very likely that a “piss poor performance” has been part of your life for years: Struggling to get away from night eating and never being able to do so successfully and long-term.

So you will do your homework first, and then start the action phase. Part of the homework is planning a personal stop night eating program for you- you must customize any stop night eating program so that it fits into your personal situation.

Also, you will need to get clear on your “inner game”: your attitudes, your motivation and so on.

A successful stop night eating program will help you to prepare the action phase, unsuccessful stop night eating programs will just dump actionable “how to” information on you and skip any preparation and planning phases. This doesn’t help you to lose weight permanently.

You’ll need a solid commitment to behavior change first- many women just try to change their behavior and think the commitment to stick to the behavior change will develop over time automatically. This doesn’t work, it’s the other way around.

A Successful Stop Night Eating Program Avoids Getting Stuck

The second factor to avoid is getting stuck in the preparation and planning phase. Your proverbial ducks will never line up in a row, the situation will never be 100% perfect and if you’ve done your homework it doesn’t make sense to delay the action phase of a stop night eating program.

Part of the delaying (and debilitating) process is the mindset “if I come across the perfect information, then I’ll start”. You can research day and night (and I encourage you to do some research) but you shouldn’t overdo it. Sooner or later you get into a phase when you realize “I’ve heard this trick/technique/tip to stop night eating and lose weight so many times before” and then you’re probably at a point when you should finish your information gathering phase.

So a good stop night eating program should give you all the information you need to make informed decisions, but not keep you into the information gathering phase too long. After all, sooner or later you want to stop eating late at night and start to lose weight.

A Successful Stop Night Eating Program Makes Change Permanent

Third, after you’ve followed the action steps in a stop night eating program most programs tend to leave you alone. As if, just by acting on advice given for some time, it would automatically stop night eating and late night eating successfully long-term. As you probably know, the relapse rate for night eaters is very high and most can’t lose weight long-term.

So a successful stop night eating program will help you maintain and overcome night eating permanently as a long-term solution.

In general terms, just like there is past, present and future, there are phases before you go into action, then there is the action phase, and then there are phases after the action phases. This has been well established in the studies of people overcoming problems of all kind successfully.

Once again, most stop night eating programs only focus on the action phase (the present), and do not take into account that there is a past and a future of night eating too.

Continue reading with the phases of a successful stop night eating program.