When do you stop logging for the day?

veronicacannon
veronicacannon Posts: 107 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Do you stop logging for the day at midnight or once you've gone to bed? I've always kept logging until I've gone to bed, even if it was 3 am. Just wondering what others do.
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  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    I do it before bed.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,321 Member
    When I am out of calories, go to bed, or midnight.
  • ernestrodgers82
    ernestrodgers82 Posts: 208 Member
    If I eat, I log. I would love to get to the point that I'm no longer consuming food at least two hours before going to bed (11 p.m.) but I get in late most nightsand end up sometimes eating and then going right to bed. Bad habit but at least I log it.
  • grinning_chick
    grinning_chick Posts: 765 Member
    edited January 2016
    A day is from wake to sleep (naps may occur during). The day I log it under is the calendar day it was when I woke up.
  • CurlyCockney
    CurlyCockney Posts: 1,394 Member
    If I fancy some hot chocolate at 3 a.m and it will take me over my calorie goal for the day I'll log it in tomorrow's (technically, today's) diary. If I can fit it in the previous day's diary and not go over my goal I'll log it there. As long as my weekly deficit is good I'll lose weight, but I don't like to see the red bits for daily calories.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    I log from midnight to midnight. I used to work night shifts and got in the habit then.
  • DavidWood5
    DavidWood5 Posts: 4 Member
    I log the day before, that way I set my calories for the next day and try not to deviate from the plan.
  • heather0renae
    heather0renae Posts: 16 Member
    Interesting to hear everyone's opinions on this. I've wondered this as well. I'm usually up late so I log it on the day I woke up to.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    I log midnight to midnight.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    When I go to sleep. Frequently because I care for my mom, and she sleeps during the mornings well, I will sleep from 4 am to 12 pm. My day starts when I get up after sleeping, whether that's at 6 am or 1 pm; and it ends when I go to sleep, which can be any time between 8 pm and 5 am.
  • ChocolateMjau
    ChocolateMjau Posts: 19 Member
    I stop logging before the midnight. If I eat smth after midnight, that goes as the first thing to my early breakfast. And I make a note..
  • IILikeToMoveItMoveIt
    IILikeToMoveItMoveIt Posts: 1,172 Member
    From when I wake up until 6am the next day.
  • feisty_bucket
    feisty_bucket Posts: 1,047 Member
    grinning_chick wrote: »
    A day is from wake to sleep (naps may occur during). The day I log it under is the calendar day it was when I woke up.

    Yeah, me too. I'm generally nocturnal, so my "days" slop over and through real days. For regimented systems like MFP, I've taken to pretending my current day started whenever I woke up from main sleepytime.

    So let's say I woke up at 8pm Tuesday. It'll be "Tuesday" for the sake of my record-keeping until whenever in Wednesday I actually go to sleep for good.

    Until I figured this out, it could get pretty confusing.
  • staticsplit
    staticsplit Posts: 538 Member
    I count each day from when I wake up to sleep. It's rare I'd eat something at 1 am and go to bed at 2 am anyway.
  • charli3anne
    charli3anne Posts: 25 Member
    edited January 2016
    I stop after I've finished my last meal. Helps to stop me snacking before bed, but then I'm rarely up past midnight! If had eaten before bed but after midnight would count it as the same day
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,238 Member
    I count everything from when I wake up to when I go to bed. Often this includes things eaten at 2 or 3am, before going to bed. Only real issue is when (infrequently) do not go to bed at all. In that case the first "breakfast" food, or anything after 6am goes into the next day.
  • yesimpson
    yesimpson Posts: 1,372 Member
    I'd go midnight to midnight, although I'm usually in bed before then though so the last thing logged would usually be a hot drink and maybe a small snack about 10pm. It just feels neater to me that way.
  • kyrannosaurus
    kyrannosaurus Posts: 350 Member
    edited January 2016
    Midnight to midnight. I have episodes of insomnia so I often eat meals at non-traditional times, including the middle of the night. As soon as the clock ticks over at midnight, my logging clicks over to a new day

    edit: grammar
  • TriShamelessly
    TriShamelessly Posts: 905 Member
    out of bed to in bed regardless of clock
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    when im done eating for the day? lol

    even if you eat something else you can add it in. its not like you cant add more.
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    When I don't think I'll eat any more for the day. My stomach has a turn off switch around 9pm that says, "The kitchen is closed."
  • jenniferpiotrowski0
    jenniferpiotrowski0 Posts: 215 Member
    I usually do it after I eat dinner or my last meal of the day
  • AmazonMayan
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    I do it midnight to midnight. Rarely do I eat past that hour even though I'm usually awake. I do well adding it to a new day then working my day around the extra.

    If I had a different kind of schedule I might change that.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Doesn't matter what I do. As long as you do what you do consistently, any method works.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    I'm not a pre-logger so I just log as I eat. So if I eat after midnight it's on the next day technically, although this is a rarity.

    As poster above says though, as long as your system is consistent and you log everything, it doesn't matter. I use a weekly view of my calories so it all works out in the end whatever way I were to do it and I never close out my diary for this reason too. I have no need to see that arbitrary "in 5 weeks....." thing because some days I'm way over and others way under. It's the week that matters to me.
  • GsKiki
    GsKiki Posts: 392 Member
    I always log after I eat, and I tend to finish with my meals couple of hours before I go to bed, which is when I finish my logging as well.
  • Jonna13
    Jonna13 Posts: 288 Member
    I stop logging after my last snack for the day, which is usually before bed
  • MsLindaC2015
    MsLindaC2015 Posts: 51 Member
    Midnight to midnight
  • javabean161
    javabean161 Posts: 10 Member
    I stop logging when either after dinner or if I have an evening snack. Sometimes I've had to "Add Food" even after I've already "Completed" all of my food intake. I always get every last bit of food logged though. :smile:
  • Sweets1954
    Sweets1954 Posts: 507 Member
    When I go to bed. I don't eat again until morning even if I'm up. Generally once I've had dinner I'm done for the day but I will add a snack if I eat or drink something after dinner.

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