your diet. eating before you go to bed, especially if you are eating high calorie foods, puts on weight for a number of reasons. first of all, you are eating food that is simply sitting in your system because your metabolism is not being activated. you are in bed for hours and the food has just enough time to break down into fat, which attaches itself to areas in your stomach, hips and waist, to name only a few places. if you are unable to control your desire to eat prior to going to bed, you have to figure out what is really going on. does this food serve as 