if you eat after midnight does that count as the next day breakfast?

Say you eat a meal at 1 am as dinner, would you enter it as breakfast or the dinner the day before?

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  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    I also close the day when I go to sleep that night. If I'm out late and we eat a pizza at 2am it's still going to go under (technically) yesterday.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Personal preference. I admit that the idea of not following a strict 12 a.m. flip to the next day annoys me a bit but that's because I am a fussbudget. It truly is a matter of personal preference.
  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,244 Member
    Only the weekly average deficit is important to me. You can count it as whatever you want.

    I have erratic sleeping schedule sometimes. Sometimes I have lunch at 1am. It doesn't matter where I log it. In general I count the day by when I sleep.
  • LoolaHoola
    LoolaHoola Posts: 1 Member
    Think of it like this: Your body does not run on a clock. It never stops! In the end it all depends how many calories you consumed total in the two days. So just as people have said before, it doesn't matter.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    it really does not make a difference.
  • stricklee11
    stricklee11 Posts: 218 Member
    Like mrsnattybulking, the day ends for me when I go to sleep. But as others have said, it doesn't matter
  • Phirrgus
    Phirrgus Posts: 1,894 Member
    I divide the day by when I sleep for the night, not midnight on the clock.

    Same here.

    We can track calories per week as well, which helps with that.
  • etherealanwar
    etherealanwar Posts: 465 Member
    I would log it under snacks on the previous day. Like others I don't consider it a new day until I've gone to bed haha.
  • jessetfan
    jessetfan Posts: 373 Member
    I'm like many others, the day ends when I go to sleep rather than at midnight. If I were eating late at night (definitely done it) I would count it as whatever day it was when I got up in the morning.
  • KINGLUNIC
    KINGLUNIC Posts: 2 Member
    I been wondering this but the technical term is breakfast. when you get ready for the next day and you have a sedated sleep, I start counting the calories when I wake up. My Macros. My dietician says after 12 is next day. But I fast 16 hours and sometimes that 8 hour window dont work.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,302 Member
    KINGLUNIC wrote: »
    I been wondering this but the technical term is breakfast. when you get ready for the next day and you have a sedated sleep, I start counting the calories when I wake up. My Macros. My dietician says after 12 is next day. But I fast 16 hours and sometimes that 8 hour window dont work.

    Doesnt matter what the technical term is - or even if you log what you eat for breakfast in the section called breakfast or somewhere else.

    Not quite sure what your dietician is saying - I mean, yes, after 12 midnight it turns into the next day - that is how our timekeeping of days works :*

    It really doesnt matter when you log anything or what you call it - as long as, on average, you are eating the correct amount of calories

  • Godlord1488
    Godlord1488 Posts: 37 Member
    usually for me.i dont count it unless it's like 4Am or something(i leave for gym at 5 30 as it opens at 6 where i live) .ill workout till 9 30 then head to work which starts at 10am till 5. then ill race back to gym for a half hour run. im usually fasting 5am-5pm with the exception of black coffee Bang or water and maybe a single raw cucumber.....eating window is 6-10pm anyone here get up st 1am bc they hungry also?:"( its a big habit i want to break.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,303 Member
    It really doesnt matter when you log anything or what you call it - as long as, on average, you are eating the correct amount of calories

    QFT
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    "Breakfast" for me is the first meal I eat when I am done sleeping. I put everything before that on the previous day's food diary.

    However you want to track it is fine. I was going to add "as long as you stay consistent" but you really don't even need to do that.
  • NJsemple
    NJsemple Posts: 41 Member
    Personally I see my day as from when I wake up to when I go to sleep so if I’m still up after midnight it counts as a snack on the day I already on
  • penguinmama87
    penguinmama87 Posts: 1,155 Member
    I can probably count the days I stay up after midnight in a year on one hand...probably with a few fingers left over! You night owls are mysterious creatures! :D
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    If you do it on a regular basis customize your meal names and have one called "midnight snack". That could be the last meal of one day or the first meal of the next