Weird sleep and calories

Countandsubtract

How do you guys manage your calories when your sleep cycle isn't based on 24 hours, such as during a summer vacation? I have a lot of sleep issues, so it probably happens as often as not.
Skipping calorie counting on those days wouldn't really work out because they're so often.

I've tried getting it treated and it's still far from 100%, so waiting for a magical cure also probably won't happen.



Examples:
-Summer vacation and you sleep cycle gets upside down.
-Longer than 24 hour "days"/sleep cycle.
-8 hour sleeps cycles with 4 hours awake and 4 asleep.
-All nighters
-Shorter than 24 hour sleep cycles.
-The..."I'm not even sure what to expect next" sleep cycle.
-And the days where you stay up longer/or sleep in to adjust your sleep cycle back to normal.

Thanks!

corinasue1143

If you’re asking how to log your food, just make sure it all gets logged one day or another, then look at the big picture, like how many calories you ate this week.
If you’re asking when to eat, my opinion— you need to eat about every 4 or 5 hours. If you think you might be awake 6 hours, then back to sleep, maybe a meal and a snack during that 6 hours. The reason I say every 4 to 5 hours is for satiety, not health. If I don’t eat protein every so often, I will find and devour the whole carton of ice cream. A meal or substantial snack stops me.

Countandsubtract

I'm asking more how many calories etc. . I don't know, lots of problems come up, especially when I'm awoken multiple times and think I'm going to stay up.

Does anyone else have this issue?



For example those days when you're trying to force you sleep cycle one way or the other, so you kind of end up with three wake cycles in two and a half days. It never involves easy math where I can just go, "oh clearly these two will be one day. "

Or some days I'm up for 26 hours and then asleep for 12 (not even as an all-nighter, it just happens pretty often when I can't sleep).

Trying to time meals can also get a little difficult and I think I under-the-overeat if I don't eat food as meals.

Countandsubtract

(I tried just doing it by calander day but that was possibly even more confusing. )
Sorry it was too late to edit it.

siberiantarragon

Maybe you should try defining a "day" on MFP as 16 waking hours (assuming that typically a person would be sleeping for 8 hours and awake for 16). So each set of 16 hours that you are awake, whether consecutive or not, counts as a block of time in which your goal is to hit X number of calories and macros.

cmriverside

In general, when I'm on vacation I don't log food so that would solve this issue.

I mean, don't over-think it. If your schedule is thrown off, so be it. I hope you find a way to have some fun and eat when you're hungry.

I think the idea of just logging what you eat when you eat it and not worrying about what day it happens or when you sleep is the only way to do it. Then look at the weekly balance.