Nighttime eating is often mindless, a result of boredom while engaging in other activities like watching television. If you keep busy with other hobbies, you're less likely to end up overeating. Choose activities that occupy your hands. Take up knitting or sewing. Try starting a 1,000 piece puzzle. Teach yourself cat's cradle. Buy a sketchbook and learn to draw. Anything to keep your hands focused on something other than eating is ideal. Use your mind as well. Nighttime eating can sometimes be the result of emotional stress, so if you keep your mental energies focused elsewhere you're less likely to over indulge at night. Buy a book of crossword puzzles or sudoku. Many trivia games are available online, where you can compete with other players. If you live with a significant other or roommate, consider having a game of cards or a board game be a nightly ritual. Oftentimes, people unwinding at the end of the day with a snack is the highlight of their day. If this is the case for you, try to incorporate pleasant activities throughout the day. That way, you'll put less focus on nightly snacks as your primary form of emotional release. Try to make room for small pleasures. What are things you enjoy? What are your interests? If you drive to work or use public transportation, try listening to podcasts on subjects that interest you and your morning commute. If you enjoy reading, read a book while waiting for a bus or train. Make time during your lunch hour for a leisurely walk. Make a quick stop by a store you like after work a few nights a week, even if it's just to browse. Join a club. Meeting new people, and getting involved in your community, can increase your overall level of happiness. This means less focus will be placed on nighttime eating as a form of unwinding and relaxing. Websites like Meetup help you find gatherings relevant to your interests or you could visit a local community center and see what classes and clubs are available. Incorporate a nighttime treat unrelated to eating into your day-to-day routine. Do you enjoy walking? Go for a half an hour walk in the hours leading to bed time. Are you a gamer? Find a video game you enjoy and allow yourself an hour of play before bedtime. Brushing your teeth can be a great way to curb the desire to eat at night for a variety of reasons. Many people enjoy the clean mouth feel and do not want to sully it with eating. If you brush your teeth shortly after dinner rather than right before bed, you may be less likely to eat at night. Toothpaste and mouth wash changes the flavor of foods. Go-to late night snacks, like salty and sweet options, do not seem appetizing after you've cleaned your teeth with minty products. Buy breath strips or sugar free mint-flavored gum from a supermarket. If you start to feel cravings after the clean-mouth feel wears off, you can reignite the sensation by using a breath strip or chewing gum. Oftentimes, an erratic sleep schedule can fuel an erratic eating schedule. Changing your sleep schedule can help curb nighttime food cravings. A poor sleep schedule can easily result in missing meals, breakfast especially. For example, say you have to be at work at 9AM each day but stay up until 2AM each night. You're probably less likely to get up early enough to make breakfast, and as stated missing breakfast is a surefire way to encourage nighttime eating. Staying up late also results in boredom. Less people are around and less establishments are open. Many people end up snacking because they have little else to do. Get on a solid sleep schedule. This means going to bed and waking up at roughly the same time each day, and aiming for 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night. Your body and mind will adjust to the routine and you begin to experience sleepiness around the same time each day. If it has become a habit to eat at night, every night, don't assume that it will be an easy habit to break. It will be a challenge in the beginning and asking friends and family members for support can help you cope with the issue. If you live with other people, ask your roommates, significant others, or family to not keep junk food around that they know will tempt you. Also, you could ask them to join you in breaking the night-eating habit. If you live alone, try to find friends you can text or talk to on the phone. Social interaction can combat boredom and stress, key triggers for nighttime eating. Online communities often offer support, advice, and tips. Look for forums and message boards to talk about your struggles with nighttime eating and seek out guidance from those in a similar situation.
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One-sentence summary -- Find a new hobby. Have fun throughout the day. Brush your teeth after dinner. Get enough sleep. Seek support.

. Take a deep breath. It helps a lot of people if they tense up their entire body and keep it that way for a few seconds. Then, just relax all your muscles. "Box breathing" is also a good method. Breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, and then breathe out for 4 seconds. The overall effect will calm you down. There are entire techniques and classes dedicated to movement for performers and for good reason. They'll help you utilize your "space" to the best of your ability and take command of the stage. Acting is not just in your voice or in your face, but on all planes. Feel free to give your character quirks. Does he walk with a slight limp from a war? Does she constantly play with her hair? Is he a leg twitcher? Does she pick at her fingernails? It doesn't have to be in the script! Think about how your character would act in daily living. How do you see them sitting in a waiting room? What would they be found doing? . Talk louder than you usually would so everyone can hear you and the camera can catch the sound. There's nothing more irritating than being in the audience and catching every third word. Don't talk absurdly just make sure that your voice carries and that you are not mumbling or talking in an indoor voice to your fellow actors. If you're in a play, you need to make sure that the people in the back of the audience can hear you, so stand up straight, project your voice and make sure you're turning slightly towards the audience. You don't want to be speaking to the back wall. Do not speak too fast. This often garbles your words and makes it difficult to hear what you're saying. . When you are on stage or in front of the camera, you have to say your words clearly and make sure all the sounds are well defined. This is especially important at the ends of words, which are easy to swallow and lose acoustically. Make sure all your consonants are present. This should just slow you down enough to be easily understood by all. Don't overdo your enunciation since this could come across sounding unnatural. You want to make sure your voice sounds clear, but not like you're overacting. If you are uncertain about whether or not you're over or under-enunciating your words, ask the director and your fellow actors. Even if your character doesn't have an accent, there are still other aspects of their idiolect to consider that may not be in the script. Consider their age, race, social status, beliefs, and income. In a review of the semi-recently revived "The Pajama Game," one writer said that the main character was great...apart from not being believable. She played a simple Midwestern girl who pronounced "either" EYE-thurr. Wrong. Dead giveaway. So close, too. Avoid being that girl and analyze your character's dialogue.
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Relax Be aware of your body. Project Enunciate Talk like your character.