if you eat after midnight does that count as the next day breakfast?

Allthingsglitter

Say you eat a meal at 1 am as dinner, would you enter it as breakfast or the dinner the day before?

donjtomasco

If I had room in the day before calories, I put them there. If I am out, I put it on the next day. But it really does not matter.

PaulaWallaDingDong

It's up to you. If you have uneaten calories from the day before, you might as well use them. Otherwise, I log it when I eat it. It also doesn't matter what meal it goes into. That's just for your own reference.

ccsernica

My days tend to run from about 10am to 2am. All calories go into the day starting in the morning, even if I eat them after midnight.

MelanieCN77

I divide the day by when I sleep for the night, not midnight on the clock.

inertiastrength

I also close the day when I go to sleep that night. If I'm out late and we eat a pizza at 2am it's still going to go under (technically) yesterday.

jemhh

Personal preference. I admit that the idea of not following a strict 12 a.m. flip to the next day annoys me a bit but that's because I am a fussbudget. It truly is a matter of personal preference.

TonyB0588

Ashleyjt_ wrote: »

Say you eat a meal at 1 am as dinner, would you enter it as breakfast or the dinner the day before?

I wouldn't be eating such a big meal after midnight, so its more likely I would list it under Snacks for the current day.

AnvilHead

Log it wherever works best for you, weight loss/gain doesn't happen on a 24-hour clock. The body doesn't pause at midnight, tally up the calories and decide whether to gain or lose weight. Gain and loss is constantly happening within our body, we move in and out of lipolysis and lipogenesis (fat loss and storage) phases all day, every day.

Seffell

Only the weekly average deficit is important to me. You can count it as whatever you want.

I have erratic sleeping schedule sometimes. Sometimes I have lunch at 1am. It doesn't matter where I log it. In general I count the day by when I sleep.

LoolaHoola

Think of it like this: Your body does not run on a clock. It never stops! In the end it all depends how many calories you consumed total in the two days. So just as people have said before, it doesn't matter.

callsitlikeiseeit

it really does not make a difference.

stricklee11

Like mrsnattybulking, the day ends for me when I go to sleep. But as others have said, it doesn't matter

ladyreva78

well, the more interesting question is: How many calories do zombies eat when they eat a brain? Is it more before or after midnight? And where should they log it?

Phirrgus

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

I divide the day by when I sleep for the night, not midnight on the clock.

Same here.

We can track calories per week as well, which helps with that.

etherealanwar

I would log it under snacks on the previous day. Like others I don't consider it a new day until I've gone to bed haha.

jessetfan

I'm like many others, the day ends when I go to sleep rather than at midnight. If I were eating late at night (definitely done it) I would count it as whatever day it was when I got up in the morning.

KINGLUNIC

I been wondering this but the technical term is breakfast. when you get ready for the next day and you have a sedated sleep, I start counting the calories when I wake up. My Macros. My dietician says after 12 is next day. But I fast 16 hours and sometimes that 8 hour window dont work.

paperpudding

KINGLUNIC wrote: »

I been wondering this but the technical term is breakfast. when you get ready for the next day and you have a sedated sleep, I start counting the calories when I wake up. My Macros. My dietician says after 12 is next day. But I fast 16 hours and sometimes that 8 hour window dont work.

Doesnt matter what the technical term is - or even if you log what you eat for breakfast in the section called breakfast or somewhere else.

Not quite sure what your dietician is saying - I mean, yes, after 12 midnight it turns into the next day - that is how our timekeeping of days works

It really doesnt matter when you log anything or what you call it - as long as, on average, you are eating the correct amount of calories

Godlord1488

usually for me.i dont count it unless it's like 4Am or something(i leave for gym at 5 30 as it opens at 6 where i live) .ill workout till 9 30 then head to work which starts at 10am till 5. then ill race back to gym for a half hour run. im usually fasting 5am-5pm with the exception of black coffee Bang or water and maybe a single raw cucumber.....eating window is 6-10pm anyone here get up st 1am bc they hungry also?:"( its a big habit i want to break.

PAV8888

paperpudding wrote: »

It really doesnt matter when you log anything or what you call it - as long as, on average, you are eating the correct amount of calories

QFT

kshama2001

"Breakfast" for me is the first meal I eat when I am done sleeping. I put everything before that on the previous day's food diary.

However you want to track it is fine. I was going to add "as long as you stay consistent" but you really don't even need to do that.

NJsemple

Personally I see my day as from when I wake up to when I go to sleep so if I’m still up after midnight it counts as a snack on the day I already on

penguinmama87

I can probably count the days I stay up after midnight in a year on one hand...probably with a few fingers left over! You night owls are mysterious creatures!

rosebarnalice

If you do it on a regular basis customize your meal names and have one called "midnight snack". That could be the last meal of one day or the first meal of the next