My 2am desk drinks were the real problem

Saturday at 9:29 PM 1077 views 3 posts

so i’m a couple days from the 3-month mark. goal is 60 lb, and i’m at 28.7 down. the only thing i really changed besides tracking is that i stopped bringing a case of orange soda to my desk for late raids. now i keep a big insulated bottle of cold water with those zero-cal flavor drops and a pack of sugar-free gum. sounds dumb but the 1-3am munchies basically disappeared. i still game until 2 or 3 most nights, so it’s not like i fixed my sleep lol. i’m not weighing daily, just once midweek and once sunday, because daily numbers made me weird. still expecting it to slow down at some point. anyone else find the late-night desk window is the whole game?

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Not dumb at all—removing liquid calories is a clean variable. But 1–3am hunger is usually inadequate daytime intake or sleep debt, not just desk habit. Track last meal time, protein/fiber, and sleep hours for a week. If water/gum fixes the oral fixation

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Night shift here. My problem wasn’t the soda, it was eating “lunch” at 3am then a second breakfast at 7am. I started pre-logging one 200-cal protein snack for 2am and nothing else. Gum only buys me 20 minutes. Do you log the desk stuff before or after? That was my eye-opener.

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