Having trouble logging items since I work rotating shifts

mprice63
mprice63 Posts: 6 Member
edited November 13 in Health and Weight Loss
Work 12 hour rotating shifts and it hard to log nights need help

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  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    Why? It doesn't matter what time of day you eat it, just log it as part of your day.

    If it helps, you can customize your diary to rename the standard "breakfast", "lunch" and "dinner" meals as something else, like "before work", "at work", "after work". Or some people have meals by time of day -- "8am-11am", "11am-2pm", etc.
  • mprice63
    mprice63 Posts: 6 Member
    Hmmm didn't know you could do that. Nights always throw me off track
  • Ni_kki
    Ni_kki Posts: 50 Member
    edited February 2015
    I don't eat in restricted buckets like, breakfast, lunch, dinner. I customized my diary to have 4 buckets-
      food I eat at work, food I eat at home, food I eat everywhere else, usless liquid calories. This helps when I'm logging as I go and also if I have to go back in later, it's easier to remember where I ate something rather than what time.
  • mprice63
    mprice63 Posts: 6 Member
    Whoa now that sounds great! Thank you might try that
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    I work overnights, 12 hours shifts, with two different start times. What I do is log from midnight to midnight, so every day is consistent and matches up with my fitbit "burn".
  • rinnosuke
    rinnosuke Posts: 2 Member
    I used to work overnights (changed this week) I just set my profiles for what time I actually eat whatever I eat. More accurate that way anyway IMO.
  • mprice63
    mprice63 Posts: 6 Member
    Yeah I either work 7am to 7 pm or 7 pm to 7 am I rotate 14 days out of the month. 4 nights off 3 then 3 days off one then 3 nights off three and then it's 4 days then off 7 days. On the 7 days I do pretty good
  • firehorse1007
    firehorse1007 Posts: 1 Member
    Hi I work a variety of shifts over an eight week period. After some trial and error I now log food to the day I eat it. When on nights I eat about 18.30 either a small main meal or healthy omelette, 2 snacks over night and my dinner about 4.00 hours, usually a meat or fish cous cous salad. If I'm hungry when I get home then some cereal. Shift change overs are difficult for me as usually tired so I try to have home cooked meals in the freezer ready for an easy day. Some days I'm not so good. I still log everything, never beat myself up about it, treat my fitness sessions as non breakable diary appointments and focus on tasty recipes for the next few days.
  • fatjon73
    fatjon73 Posts: 379 Member
    mprice63 wrote: »
    Work 12 hour rotating shifts and it hard to log nights need help

    I work permanent nights. But I switch back at weekends to be like normal folk. Lol I have set my list up to log times of day to eat. So I know when I have eaten. Try to give me an idea of patterns etc. My diary is open feel free to look might give you ideas on how best to set yours up.
  • fmw1985
    fmw1985 Posts: 8 Member
    elphie754 wrote: »
    I work overnights, 12 hours shifts, with two different start times. What I do is log from midnight to midnight, so every day is consistent and matches up with my fitbit "burn".

    I do this and my meals are renamed:

    12-4am
    4-8am
    8am-12pm
    12-4pm
    4-8pm
    8pm-12am

    That way I know when I am eating and can separate it all, but still track in a 24 hour calendar day.
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