For as long as I can remember I have had problems with eating at night. Not during my sleep, but waking up several times in the night and not being able to get back to sleep until I have eaten something. This was one of the reasons I got fat in the first place. I used to get through kilos of biscuits ( Am. cookies)

Now I still have the problem, the only difference is that I eat low carb things (because that's all there is in the house!)

This is obviously either an eating or a sleeping disorder, but when it's 3 in the morning and it's a choice between eat and go back to sleep or lie awake till 7 and feel ill all day through lack of sleep, I eat.

I can't imagine what it is like to sleep for 8 hours without waking up. Do people really do that?

One of my New Year's resolutions is to try and break this habit. Has anyone out there every gone through something similar and managed to stop it?

Any constructive advice would be appreciated.