Is it normal that I dream, and I mean literally DREAM, about food every night when I go to sleep? This last week every morning when I wake up, for a second I'm like mad at myself because i remember all the food I "ate" in my dream last night and then i remember that I was just asleep and that I didnt actually do anything wrong? Its starting to drive me crazy to be honest. Its hard to focus on doing well on staying OP when every night your dreaming about all the foods your craving lately! Any suggestions? Does anyone else do this? or am i just super weird?
My first week or so I did the same thing then as I stayed on track and got going on the program I am following the cravings left and the dreams did as well....Last night I had a dream I ran a 5k....now that would be a miracle LOL
I used to dream alot about food when I first started. I remember I would often dream about chinese food and chips with loads of sweet and sour sauce. lol. It is hard because when you are dreaming about such yummy things it is so hard to resist them. Don't go bed hungry that is all I can suggest and power on through. Try and dream about being your ideal weight. x
It's because you are concentrating so much on your dietary changes. I use to have hair down to my knees. I cut it off at one point and for years dreamed that it was long again. Then I let it grow back to tail bone length and I would dream I had cut it off. Sometimes these dreams seemed so real that when I woke up I was sure it was true and had to feel my hair! I think what we fear or feel at odds with often expresses itself in dreams.
I sometimes have a similar dream, and for me it's usually a sign that my relationship with food is turning toward the unhealthy and/or that I'm feeling deprived. Good solutions for me are finding low-cal options for cravings, finding ways to include craving foods in moderation (but only if possible), and/or upping my calories 100/day for a while.
I do the same thing, but I try not to let it bother me. It's been more intense because I binged 3 days out of the last week (but 2 times stayed under 1500 cals so that was awesome) but it seemed to really trigger them.
Honestly it's an addiction. I was addicted to drugs for a long time and would dream about them all the time, sometimes I still do even two years later completely clean, but they fade with time. It will be nightly, then maybe 5x a week, then 3, then 2, then every other week....etc.
Food is our drug, that's why we are here, you brain is trying to understand why you are depriving it of the chemicals you get when you eat. So, it's convincing itself it is getting them. It's a coping mechanism.
Trust me, it will fade, you just have to stick to it for a while first.
If I actually ingested every dream calorie, I would weigh about 600 pounds. But, oh - it would almost be worth it. Dream cookies are always perfect, never overcooked or stale. It helps marginally when I eat something small before I go to bed, and it doesn't happen to me every night, but even when I lost close to 100 pounds several years ago, I continued to dream about food I was choosing not to eat. But in the morning, I always remember that I prefer to be fit and feel in control than eat mindlessly. Not that I'll never have a cookie again. I'll just really want that cookie and make that decision with my rational mind. (Or at least, that's the goal. =)
Hahaha I think its normal to dream about food when you are getting started. The first week I was dreaming of Pastrami Sandwiches. Hot and gooey with lots of cheese and mustard... I don't even like Pastrami and thought it was funny rather than irritating when I woke up.
It happened to me a few times, but in a way, it made me feel better... It was like: because I had already binged in my dreams, I was 'satisfied', and didn't feel the urge to binge again during the day.
On the other hand, it was just as annoying as when I dream of my pupils and reenact work days. So I'm also glad it has stopped.
I don't have it anymore but I remember I used to have thsoe dreams. OH MY GOD so vivid. I would binge in my dreams. Eat Snickers bars, usually, which is weird because I don't even really like Snickers or eat them. haha but I would in my dream and I could literally taste it. Like SOOOOO vividly. and I'd feel like crap but then I'd wake up and be like oh god thank goodness it was just a dream. But surprisngly, any desire to binge goes away with the dream haha so weird.
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I'm 7 months into my weight loss journey, and only in the last few weeks have I started dreaming about food. But it's happening all of a sudden at least 3 or 4 nights a week and I wake up with the most horribly guilty feelings!
In one, I was sneaking a Reese's peanut butter cup and my ex walked into the room and caught me and asked me why I was eating that, wasn't I not supposed to eat candy? I remember feeling completely humiliated and woke up in a foul mood. It took me a good while to convince myself, no, I hadn't *really* eaten the candy and I had nothing to feel guilty about.
Wondering why these have started all of a sudden? I'm not really craving candy in my waking moments. The idea of eating a Reese's cup (which used to be my favorite) holds little appeal to me. MediFast did wonders for killing my sweet tooth.
I realize this is an old thread, but it must have been fate that it was bumped up recently! I was juuust about to make a thread about this, because I was starting to feel crazy about dreaming about the foods I couldn't eat.
I made a milkshake for my mom last night - one with SF ice cream, almond milk, and pumpkin spice. My mom showed me a creamsicle smoothie recipe, but shrugged it off and made her drink. That same night, I had a dream about making a smoothie with regular ice cream, orange juice, and skim milk. Thing is, all of that is sugar-packed, and my plan limits sugars to 15g! I was freaking out when I got up and realized I had dream-drank the WHOLE shake.
Is it normal....
