If it's after midnight, do you count food toward the next da

megz4987
megz4987 Posts: 1,008 Member
edited October 2 in Health and Weight Loss
I havent been able to sleep well and don't usually fall asleep until about 2am and eating dinner around 5pm, I'm hungry by midnight a lot (understandably). So would you count any food you eat after midnight for the next day?

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  • Cinnamonie
    Cinnamonie Posts: 138
    It's completely up to you. I do bedtime to bedtime.
  • Awake_Alive
    Awake_Alive Posts: 261 Member
    I count all the food I eat in one waking cycle as a day.
  • crzyone
    crzyone Posts: 872 Member
    I had this same question.....I have been counting it for the day before.....I think that sleep is the dividing point for me....
  • Lindz2323
    Lindz2323 Posts: 261 Member
    From the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep, I count that all as one day, even if it's after midnight.. i'm the same way usually. =)
  • jessicahelene
    jessicahelene Posts: 77 Member
    I think as long as you consistently do it one way or the other it will be fine. Your body doesn't really care what time you ate it; it's just for your own tracking!! :)
  • ilookthetype
    ilookthetype Posts: 3,021 Member
    My new day starts when I wake up the next morning.
  • harriet_tubman
    harriet_tubman Posts: 52
    i don't consider it the next day until after going to sleep and waking up
  • MuffinMan25
    MuffinMan25 Posts: 110
    It's completely up to you. I do bedtime to bedtime.

    I do the same!
  • Misslissa16
    Misslissa16 Posts: 15
    I work shift work as a nurse, so when i work nights i count everything i eat after midnight as the next day. But i suppose as long as you are counting a 24 hour period it should be ok.
  • Crystal817
    Crystal817 Posts: 2,021 Member
    I count all the food I eat in one waking cycle as a day.

    Same. I work nights, so I track from the time I wake up until I go to bed! Usually around 2pm-7am.
  • hopeful23455
    hopeful23455 Posts: 22 Member
    i don't consider it the next day until after going to sleep and waking up

    This exactly.
  • chevy88grl
    chevy88grl Posts: 3,937 Member
    For me, one day is from the time I wake up until the time I go to bed. Since I work second shift and I tend to stay up late and sleep late -- I figure it is easier this way than trying to do it from midnight to midnight.


    Do what works for YOU.
  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    I've done it before, but I don't like to because that just means I either have less calories for the actual next day or I go over and start counting more stuff on the next next day. It's just a bad cycle to get into.
  • KetoLovingMama
    KetoLovingMama Posts: 69 Member
    I do :)
  • CaptainMFP
    CaptainMFP Posts: 440 Member
    In the end, there is no definitive answer other than this: decide how you want to count it and count it that way every time it happens. As long as you are consistent it really doesn't matter. The only real problem is if you start gaming how you count these calories by recording it differently each time to make a day look better than it was. Pick what makes the most sense to you, stick with it, and don't worry!
  • LisaMarieee
    LisaMarieee Posts: 176 Member
    No.
  • seal57
    seal57 Posts: 1,259 Member
    I count from midnight to midnight......
  • Collinsky
    Collinsky Posts: 593 Member
    I often eat late - I count from wake up to bedtime (whatever time that is) as one day, so anything I eat before I fall asleep I record on that day.

    If I go to sleep and then wake up in the middle of the night and snack, I usually count that toward the next day, but it depends. It's up to you!
  • Aria_Fat_Pants
    Aria_Fat_Pants Posts: 19
    Yes, I do :)
  • geekymom57
    geekymom57 Posts: 176 Member
    I agree that doing whatever it is consistently is the key. Personally, I do midnight to midnight, since those time points don't move and having a fixed parameter helps keep me honest. If I'm up later than usual and decide to have a late night glass of wine, I know it's going to count against my calories for the day and I'll either have to eat differently or exercise more to stay within my calories--my choice, but predicated by my other choice to have the wine or snack or whatever.
  • Michelle_M2002
    Michelle_M2002 Posts: 301 Member
    I have a Bodybugg, since the calorie expenditure is measured from Midnight to 11:59 pm.. I personally choose to log food as the "next day" if it's eaten after midnight. That is what is easiest for me to keep track of my food to make sure that it's going toward the correct day's calories so that my deficit (I am for burning 1,000 more a day than I eat) is as accurate as possible.

    If I did NOT use a Bodybugg, then I would log my food from wake-up to bed-time, because that's what would be easiest for me in THAT circumstance. Make sense?

    God bless!
  • Michelle_M2002
    Michelle_M2002 Posts: 301 Member
    In the end, there is no definitive answer other than this: decide how you want to count it and count it that way every time it happens. As long as you are consistent it really doesn't matter. The only real problem is if you start gaming how you count these calories by recording it differently each time to make a day look better than it was. Pick what makes the most sense to you, stick with it, and don't worry!

    I completely agree with everything he said here!

    God bless!
  • whatwentwrong
    whatwentwrong Posts: 228
    i do it by MY day, not by 12am-12pm. i woek up at 4pm today, so i input my first meal at 6 pm as breakfast, and my dinner will probly be sometime around 2 am :P
  • TS65
    TS65 Posts: 1,024 Member
    It depends on how my day before went. If I was undercalories by a lot, I count it for the day before. If I was right on or over, I count it for the next day. It's really all about the weekly defecit so I don't think it matters much.
  • ParagonXI
    ParagonXI Posts: 6 Member
    I definitely believe days count as how long you're awake, not by if it's past 12AM or not.
  • Jhookism
    Jhookism Posts: 17
    I use sleep as the dividing point.
  • cherrieruns
    cherrieruns Posts: 342 Member
    personally I count it for my awake time but in truth it is more important to count it, regardless of when. Someone suggested not 'playijng' with the calories for the day - I think that is right on. If you start moving calories to make the nmbers look better, eventually it will catch up with you. Good luck to you in this journey.
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