If so, what do you dream about? Do you think it is your subconcious mind telling you something???
I have been having dreams lately about birthday cake. I remember the panicked feeling in my dream after eating the whole cake. I think I'm going to take the dream as a sign that I need to treat myself a little. Maybe the pressure of being "good" all the time is beginning to build up. If I save up my WW points this week I should be able to have a decent sized treat by the end of my point counting week. It's funny that in my waking moments I don't feel that much need for cake but I think I'm going to indulge myself this time with a "controlled binge".
Anybody else have binge dreams??? Do you do anything about them?
I thought this was just me. I don't do it very often, but occasionally I'll be dreaming of eating a huge table full of food, or eating a big bowl of chocolate pudding, and I'll wake myself up thinking "I can't be eating this!!!" Then I'll calm down, relieved that dream calories don't count.
I think our brains are just giving themselves room to wander and let off steam. I don't know about you but every waking moment I am thinking about exercise and healthy eating, and dreams are like a pressure valve.
I have exercise dreams too!! Like I'm running, or swimming or weight training and I wake up tired!
I have a treat every week, and often small little treats during the week. It really helps. I've learnt now that one piece of cake doesn't have to lead to a binge.
I just posted about this on the Uk board!!! I do this, I dream about veggie burgers with cheap ketchup from my local pizza place, I don't even like them that much! The odd bit is that after eating this in my dream I wake up really full! Maybe my bf is force feeding me in my sleep!
How weird. Last night I dreamed I was eating crackers with soft cheese and crackers with jelly - a LOT of crackers. Crackers are not usually something I think about eating but they were REALLY good in my dream.
Also, one time in the middle of my weight loss, I dreamed I was in a room where the walls were made of sugar cookies. I was happily eating the walls. Weird!!
Yeah I do that--the other night I dreamt that I ate a big plate of fries. And I dream that I'm smoking too sometimes... I always wake up relieved that I didn't actually do it.
When I'm strictly following my diet with no cheats at all, I have dreams about buffets EVERY night!! I eat and eat and eat most of the time and sometimes there is an obstacle that gets in my way and I don't get to eat anything. Sometimes I don't get to eat because there are too many other people around and sometimes it's this eerie, unknown, and weird presence shadowing me. They are always the most extravagant of buffets too. Not some cheap Old Country Buffet type of thing. They are lavish and decadent. But when I've indulged in any off limits during my waking hours, I don't have any dreams about food. It's weird how our subconscious compensates for us when we under-indulge our cravings.
I dream about food when my focus is on losing. I would have interpreted the dream totally differently than you did. I would have interpreted it as my internal fear about blowing my diet and losing my whole focus on weight loss. Not that I "needed" to eat junk, but that I feared doing so. It is like when you are a child and something at school is distressing you and you dream that you went to school naked. It certainly isn't that you want to go to school naked, but that you are afraid that somehow you will be "exposed" or humiliated by something at school.
I dream of eating, and never healthy things either! Cakes, pies, brownies, cookies - never carrot sticks or cottage cheese.
For some reason, when I wake up it takes me a few minutes to realize it was just a dream. I never have that problem with any other dream scenario - wonder why?
Well, I haven't had one in a long time, but after reading this, I just might!
The last food dream I had was about cookies--lots and lots of warm, chocolate chip cookies. I could even smell them in my dream. Perhaps it was the vanilla flavoring I stuck in the potpourri pot and turned to make my house smell better after I forgot to change the cat boxes on time??
I have dreamt about chocolate cake. I think I miss it more than anything, even though I never ate it very often to start with. I did allow myself a piece of birthday cake today, chocolate of course. It wasn't nearly as good as I had imagined it would be. I also walked 3 miles on the treadmill because I felt guilty. Oh well, I will probably walk extra tomorrow too.
I don't know if this is subconcious or not but I reported that I couldn't remember a single dream about food. Last night, I had a dream that I went to a taco stand, ordered a specific taco, then joined a group of friends. These friends aren't my actual friends but in the dream they were and they all had their food already. Then my food arrived as soon as I sat down. I didn't actually eat in the dream and no one else was eating but we all had our food.
Do you ever dream about food?
