10. Late Night Snacks

At the moment, I am doing two things: pondering what I should write about in tonight's blog post and eating a piece of pie. It is about midnight and the logical half of me is thinking two things: I should be asleep and I shouldn't be eating a piece of pie. The really isn't any need to discuss whether or not going to sleep is a good idea, but eating at night is an interesting topic to me for several reasons.

First, as a college student, eating late at night is sometimes a necessity because I have no other time at which I can eat. I spend long hours on campus each day because I have two jobs on campus and I am also taking a large number of credits. Add my tendency to study in the library and you might as well say I live on campus.

The other reason I eat at night is that I need the energy. Often, when an assignment calls for a late night, amount of brain power I have can be boosted by a meal or a snack late at night. This can be the difference between getting my homework done and falling asleep ahead of time.

The problem I have with eating at night is that I tend to gain unwanted weight when I eat late at night. I noticed that on my mission when I was only eating dinner after 10 o'clock, I started to put on the pounds. Looking for a way to get rid of the weight, I stopped eating late at night and the weight came right off. From personal experience, I find that it is unhealthy to eat after 9 o'clock.

In the end, it is a personal decision whether or not you want to eat late or not. For me, it is a trade-off. Sometimes, due to time constraints or late night fuel needs, I have to eat late at night, even though I would prefer not to.