I have insomnia due to anxiety, so usually i fell asleep at 3-4 am. It’s hard to battle the night cravings, lunch OMAD is easiest time for me but still having trouble at night. Anyone have similar experience/advice?
No, not if I eat a big enough lunch. Sleeping empty feels good, particularly if I know breakfast will happen, so this early eating strategy works well when I can do it.
Are you treating the anxiety? Yin/restorative yoga helps me a lot, if too tightly wound at bedtime. Lots of forward folds, poses that sort of trick your nervous system into relaxing.
Water with electrolytes and a magnesium supplement do also help some, and exercise during the daytime helps even more, but the deep relaxation yoga works better for me than either, personally.
And sleep is so important that I’d change the eating window to get better sleep, if that works.
I have bounced around with my eating window just to see the effects of an earlier eating to see how I feel. When I’ve tried stopping at 2-4pm on workdays (often work until midnight) I’ve experienced better sleep. I’m not hungry in the evenings though, generally, but if I am I’ll have extra salt (either directly on the tongue or in water - not yummy) and wash it down with plenty of water or drink hot water to soothe hunger pangs. I remember feeling dead to the world and loving being able to drift off to sleep so quickly. I take plenty of magnesium, ashwaganda and melatonin to help with the whole process. Works like a charm most nights!