She Eats Insane Amount Of Food While Sleeping, How Is That Possible?!

Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder is a combination of a parasomnia and an eating disorder wherein a person is in a state of sleepwalking that includes behaviors connected to his or her conscious wishes or wants. Other experts call it sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), sleep eating, or somnambulistic eating.

20-year-old Kate Archibald has been diagnosed with this disorder. Once she is asleep, she eats everything within her reach.

At first, Kate was in denial of her condition. But she was confused why she ballooned from size 10 to a fuller 16. She could not remember why she drastically gained weight.

Then one morning, after waking out in a bed covered in dozens of food wrappers, it dawned on her that there’s something wrong.

“I used to get in massive rows with my flatmates about all this food that was going missing – I was adamant I hadn’t eaten anything,” Kate said when her roommates accuse her of eating all their snacks.

It was only when I woke up one morning surrounded by chocolate bar wrappers that I realised I must have been sleep-eating,” she explained

Her local doctor diagnosed the problem and traced it on her ADHD medication as a potential side effect. “I used to have to take Adderall for ADHD – one of the side effects is that it completely suppresses your appetite.”
In an interview with Daily Mail, Kate said, Basically, my body is conditioned to be hungry in the night and want food — even if I don’t. It’s sleep-walking, rather than an actual eating disorder.”

After two years, Kate would simply wait for the morning to know what she has eaten while sleeping. One time she woke up with a puffy face, meaning she consumed a nutty food she is allergic to and normally would avoid.

To handle her condition, the student would buy healthy snacks and locks herself in her bedroom at night. And in the morning, she would hit the gym to shed the extra calories she has unconsciously consumed.

If by any chance she ate any of her roommate’s food, Kate will run out to the grocery store in the morning to replace it.

Her roommate said, “If there’s anything that we don’t want her to eat we have to tell her. We just have to hope that her subconscious is listening and that she doesn’t eat our good food.”

When asked what her biggest fear is, Kate said being seen in one of her binge eating episodes since she often sleeps naked.