Eating After Midnight-Log as next day?

UhohDanny
UhohDanny Posts: 32
in Food and Nutrition
Hello All. So, I work a second shift scedule and dont get out of work until midnight. I have been trying to eat enough so that when i get home around 1am, i dont eat, but i havent had much success. I have so far been logging what I eat as a new day. Any thoughts on if I should change that, and make it the day before? Not sure if that makes sense, but hopefully you can understand it.

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  • youdontknowwhatyousaw
    youdontknowwhatyousaw Posts: 221 Member
    I consider .y day from the time I get upin the morning until I go to bed at night. Doesn't matter the time. That being said, I think if you consistently log the same way it doesn't really matter.
  • serafin366
    serafin366 Posts: 60 Member
    The most important thing is to be consistent. I would recommend from the time you start the day to the time you end your day so that you can track meals accordingly. Breakfast should be the first meal of your normal day, even if that means you eat breakfast at noon (typically thought of as lunch).
  • Tessyloowhoo
    Tessyloowhoo Posts: 504
    If i were you i would change the meals to hour limits... like instead of breakfast put 6am-10am, then have the next "meal" be 10am-3pm and so on and so forth
  • T0FatToB3S1ck
    T0FatToB3S1ck Posts: 192 Member
    My day is midnight to midnight. If I eat at 11:59pm tonight, that counts as today. If it's 12:00am its the next days log.
  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
    I consider .y day from the time I get upin the morning until I go to bed at night. Doesn't matter the time. That being said, I think if you consistently log the same way it doesn't really matter.

    Me too and I work swing shift. I do this even on my overnight shifts. Do whatever works for you. Really it does not reset at midnight.
  • dragon1ady
    dragon1ady Posts: 335 Member
    If i were you i would change the meals to hour limits... like instead of breakfast put 6am-10am, then have the next "meal" be 10am-3pm and so on and so forth

    This. It's under the My home tab. Settings -> Diary Settings.

    You can name your meals whatever you need them to be to make your tracking easier. I distinguish between day-time snacks and evening snacks, while a person my friend list who works similar hours to others in this thread, has it set to hour-intervals.
  • Sunitagt
    Sunitagt Posts: 486 Member
    I work until midnight as well, and count anything I ate between when I woke up and when I went to sleep as the same day because that's how I plan my meals. I agree with the above posts in as long as you're consistent, you'll be ok.
  • dwmaestradeb
    dwmaestradeb Posts: 15
    A similar thread was floating around recently, you might also find some ideas here:
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1044098-question-about-logging-food-opinions-please
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member
    As long as it is all recorded, who cares?
  • CrankMeUp
    CrankMeUp Posts: 2,860 Member
    As long as it is all recorded, who cares?

    this...

    if you have calories left stick some on the day before, then put the rest on the next day!
  • triff14
    triff14 Posts: 129 Member
    I am a night owl and like to sleep in so my meals are:
    Morning-noon (From when I wake up at whatever time to noon)
    Noon-2pm
    2pm-5pm
    5pm-8pm
    8pm-Midnight
    Late Night (anything after midnight until I go to sleep)

    If you decide to log it as the next day, though, just make sure you are consistent with it!
  • PrettyPearl88
    PrettyPearl88 Posts: 368 Member
    As long as it is all recorded, who cares?
    My philosophy exactly! :laugh: Although I normally do midnight to midnight, I'm really quite lax about that. Sometimes I'll log a 3 am snack into the previous day if that day had extra room. If I have a really bad binge one day, I might log half of it into the next day to remind myself to balance it out. All that really matters is the end of the week totals anyway.
  • 77tes
    77tes Posts: 8,514 Member
    It really doesn't matter. I plan a bedtime snack and a middle of the night snack in my day, so I don't start a new day in the hole. Sometimes I don't eat those, so I go back and change my diary the next day. Tracking your food is for YOU! Do it in the way that works best for you and your schedule. You certainly don't need to adjust your eating times to fit an artificial tracking window.

    Good luck :flowerforyou:
  • ShrinkingMuslimah
    ShrinkingMuslimah Posts: 99 Member
    Pretty much what everyone else has been saying.

    Log it all, keep consistency.

    Right now since I'm doing a religious fast (abstaining from food or drink {along with some other things} from sunrise till sunset basically) my first meal of the day is around 9pm, then a snack around 1am, then my last meal is around 3:15am. So my day always ends after midnight right now.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    I split my weeks into just five days of eating.

    Day one: 5 hours long. I record everything I eat in those five hours.
    Day two: 43 hours long. I record everything I eat in those 43 hours.
    Day three: 72 hours long. I record everything I eat in those 72 hours.
    Day four: 10 hours long. I record everything I eat in those 10 hours.
    Day five: 38 hours long. I record everything I eat in those 38 hours.

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