The Night Owl Dieter

Diet, Weight Loss & Personality Factors

Unfortunately, this is one of the more dangerous Diet Personality types.

The Night Owl Dieter is generally engrossed in the following activities: reading, writing, homework, television viewing, playing cards, phone chatting, Internet surfing, movie-going and video game playing.

Although the Night Owl Dieter’s mind is occupied, their body is bored and restless, therefore, they seek out other modes that satisfy. That satisfaction generally comes in the form of food – and not healthy food – foods like pizza, nachos, hot buttered popcorn, sugary soft drinks, and even alcohol. Spirits are extremely high in calories, and too many can wreck both health and life.

This type of dieting personality generally finds no need of a dining table. Sure, their house most assuredly contains one - but they never use it unless it's a special holiday or mother comes for a visit.

All food and drink is typically enjoyed amid their favorite activity. They may play a video game while drinking a few sodas and munching on chips. The jeans tend to come in handy for cleaning off the grease and salt from the chips so that the control won't get injured.

They almost never enjoy watching television or a movie without a bowl of hot buttered popcorn and a few sodas, or a well-made pizza.

Because the Night Owl Dieter enjoys the night hours best, and functions best at this time of day, there are few outdoor activities that can be enjoyed. It’s hard to play golf in the dark at midnight. Even bowling alleys tend to shut down as the sun sinks into the Western horizon.

Dieting Solutions & Tips for the Night Owl Dieter:

POOL! For activity, play pool as in billiards or pool, as in swimming pool. These are great late night activities for the Night Owl Dieter.

Take a moonlit walk but only if you can do such in a safe area. Better yet, try to get in that walk before the sun sets.

Opting for foods which are low in calories will help keep weight from shooting over the moon.

Let's examine a few calories and nutrition facts contained in the foods most adored by the Night Owl Dieter, starting with butter flavored popcorn prepared in the microwave and that has been made with palm oil. Next, we'll do a nutritional comparison for butter flavored popcorn prepared with partially hydrogenated oil.

Next, we'll take a look at nachos.

Nutrition Facts: Popcorn, Microwave Butter Flavored; prepared with Palm Oil	Units	Per 100 Grams	Per Popped Cup	Per Popped Package 87 grams	Per Unpopped Package 97 grams
Energy, Caloric Values	kcal	528	42	459	512
Protein	g	8.69	0.69	7.56	8.43
Total lipid (fat)	g	30.00	2.37	26.10	29.10
Carbohydrate, by difference	g	55.69	4.40	48.45	54.02
Fiber, total dietary	g	9.9	0.8	8.6	9.6
Sugars, total	g	0.54	0.04	0.47	0.52
Minerals
Calcium, Ca	mg	20	2	17	19
Iron, Fe	mg	2.36	0.19	2.05	2.29
Magnesium, Mg	mg	92	7	80	89
Phosphorus, P	mg	234	18	204	227
Potassium, K	mg	219	17	191	212
Sodium, Na	mg	771	61	671	748
Zinc, Zn	mg	2.43	0.19	2.11	2.36
Vitamins
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid	mg	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thiamin	mg	0.107	0.008	0.093	0.104
Riboflavin	mg	0.104	0.008	0.090	0.101
Niacin	mg	1.551	0.123	1.349	1.504
Vitamin B-6	mg	0.164	0.013	0.143	0.159
Folate, DFE	mcg_DFE	23	2	20	22
Vitamin B-12	µg	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Vitamin A, RAE	mcg_RAE	7	1	6	7
Vitamin A, IU	IU	142	11	124	138
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)	mg	4.47	0.35	3.89	4.34
Vitamin D (D2 + D3)	µg	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vitamin K (phylloquinone)	µg	3.0	0.2	2.6	2.9
Lipids
Fatty acids, total saturated	g	6.305	0.498	5.485	6.116
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated	g	14.210	1.123	12.363	13.784
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated	g	6.062	0.479	5.274	5.880
Cholesterol	mg	0	0	0	0

Nutrition Facts: Popcorn, Butter Flavor Prepared with partially hydrogenated oil	Units	Per 100 Grams	Per Cup	Per Bag 87 grams	Per Bag Unpopped 97 g
Energy, Caloric Values	kcal	527	42	458	511
Protein	g	8.69	0.69	7.56	8.43
Total lipid (fat)	g	29.97	2.37	26.07	29.07
Carbohydrate, by difference	g	55.71	4.40	48.47	54.04
Fiber, total dietary	g	9.9	0.8	8.6	9.6
Sugars, total	g	0.54	0.04	0.47	0.52
Minerals
Calcium, Ca	mg	20	2	17	19
Iron, Fe	mg	2.36	0.19	2.05	2.29
Magnesium, Mg	mg	92	7	80	89
Phosphorus, P	mg	234	18	204	227
Potassium, K	mg	219	17	191	212
Sodium, Na	mg	771	61	671	748
Zinc, Zn	mg	2.43	0.19	2.11	2.36
Vitamins
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid	mg	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thiamin	mg	0.107	0.008	0.093	0.104
Riboflavin	mg	0.104	0.008	0.090	0.101
Niacin	mg	1.551	0.123	1.349	1.504
Vitamin B-6	mg	0.164	0.013	0.143	0.159
Folate, DFE	mcg_DFE	15	1	13	15
Vitamin B-12	µg	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Vitamin A, RAE	mcg_RAE	24	2	21	23
Vitamin A, IU	IU	252	20	219	244
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)	mg	1.76	0.14	1.53	1.71
Vitamin D (D2 + D3)	µg	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vitamin K (phylloquinone)	µg	4.2	0.3	3.7	4.1
Lipids
Fatty acids, total saturated	g	6.904	0.545	6.006	6.697
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated	g	19.900	1.572	17.313	19.303
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated	g	2.159	0.171	1.878	2.094
Cholesterol	mg	0	0	0	0

Nutrition Facts: Nachos With Cheese, Beans, Ground Beef & Jalapeno Peppers	Units	Per 100 Grams	6-8 Nachos 255 grams
Energy, Caloric Values	kcal	223	569
Protein	g	7.76	19.79
Total lipid (fat)	g	12.04	30.70
Carbohydrate, by difference	g	21.89	55.82
Minerals
Calcium, Ca	mg	151	385
Iron, Fe	mg	1.09	2.78
Magnesium, Mg	mg	38	97
Phosphorus, P	mg	152	388
Potassium, K	mg	177	451
Sodium, Na	mg	706	1800
Zinc, Zn	mg	1.43	3.65
Vitamins
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid	mg	1.9	4.8
Thiamin	mg	0.090	0.229
Riboflavin	mg	0.270	0.689
Niacin	mg	1.310	3.340
Vitamin B-6	mg	0.160	0.408
Folate, DFE	mcg_DFE	15	38
Vitamin B-12	µg	0.40	1.02
Vitamin A, IU	IU	1334	3402
Lipids
Fatty acids, total saturated	g	4.897	12.487
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated	g	4.306	10.980
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated	g	2.231	5.689
Cholesterol	mg	8	20

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