Corey McCullock

Sleep Eating

We’ve all done it, woke up in the morning to find wrappers in our bed or on our night stands. It happens to the best of us, well some of us at least. This has been growing even more clear to me as the problem I have with eating at night.

Just the other morning I woke up to what looked like a reenactment of a scene from the movie Blow. But I assure you the white powder on my face, shirt, pillow and night stand was not cocaine. It was however the powder from those delicious white doughnuts covered in powdered sugar. That’s when it became noticeable that I had a problem.

I mean sure, who cares about the box of granola bars I stash by my bed, or the economy box of fruit smiles I consumed in 3 nights, but when my food habit starts to look like a drug habit, something’s got to change! So I changed my habits up, kinda, I think. I at least only woke up last night at 2 a.m. and had three cookies and a glass of chocolate milk. I’m not sure if food helps me sleep or not.

Maybe I’m eating to the point of a food “coma.” But regardless it is not healthy! One night over break in a period of 6 hours of waking up here and there, I drank a whole entire gallon of chocolate milk. My mom was not the happiest when I woke her up saying I felt like a hurricane was brewing in my intestines. I believe she said something along the lines of a “when will you learn” type of thing! It was definitely not my smartest move, but it tasted delicious at the time! If anybody else out there does this, you’re not alone!