Does waking up earlier then normal require more calories during the day?

baxterroxy
baxterroxy Posts: 43 Member
edited November 10 in Health and Weight Loss
Say if you wake up 2 hours earlier then you usually do, does your body need more calories that day then usual? Especially if you are getting up early to exercise?

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  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    I would just spread mine out a bit more.
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    No, it just means you will need a nap later.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    Nope. I get up at 4:30 every morning!

    If you wake up earlier than usual, just spread your calories out more efficiently. If you think you'll be hungrier? Exercise and earn more calories.
  • terbusha
    terbusha Posts: 1,483 Member
    That's a great question about finding the appropriate calorie goal for the day. What I do and what I recommend to people is to eat at a calorie level that allows you to make good progress towards your goal. If you are trying to lose weight, eat so you drop 1-2 lbs/week. This assumes an average calorie burn from you getting in all of your workouts. This will be different for everyone, so you'll have to do some trial and error to figure it out. I'd start ~1600 cal/day. Hit this goal, along with your macros and getting in your workouts, for a week. If you lose 1-2 lbs, you're good to go. If you lose too much, increase your intake and repeat. If you don't lose enough, reduce your intake a bit and repeat. After a few weeks, you'll figure out what works for you in your situation.
  • MaryCS62
    MaryCS62 Posts: 266 Member
    I don't think so, but when I wake up earlier, I'm hungry earlier, so tend to snack more. My job shift starts anywhere from 7am to 830 am, & when I have to be in at 7, I'm hungry by 8. If I get in later, I can push off breakfast til 9 or 930 (always eat @ work, just have coffee on the ride in). Love the weekends (every other) when I can sleep late, it's easier for me to stay at or under my calorie goals!
  • wkwebby
    wkwebby Posts: 807 Member
    Waking up an hour or two earlier will give you 100-200 steps extra a day (unless you're working out in that time frame). So no real extra calories (maybe 5, so a bit of broccoli extra?). :D
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,218 Member
    Sure, have a snack to compensate.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    Yes, but hardly enough to worry about. It is less then 10 calories per hour difference between sleeping and normal activity.
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    No. The minimal extra energy you'll need will be more than offset by the way you'll be less energetic on insufficient sleep.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    segacs wrote: »
    No. The minimal extra energy you'll need will be more than offset by the way you'll be less energetic on insufficient sleep.

    That's why God made coffee.
  • RockstarWilson
    RockstarWilson Posts: 836 Member
    edited January 2015
    When you are asleep, you use a ton less energy, some 40-60% less. Therefore, when you are awake more, you need more food. The relationship is direct.
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    That's why God made coffee.

    Coffee wasn't invented by God. Coffee *is* God. I'm a big fan of coffee.

    Having said that, getting enough sleep still has been proven in study after study to help with weight loss.
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