If you exercise after midnight, what day do track it?

LemonPoppySeedMuffin
LemonPoppySeedMuffin Posts: 302
edited October 3 in Fitness and Exercise
Do you track it the day before, or the new day?
To me, tomorrow isn't until I wake up from the night's sleep.

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  • juliesummers
    juliesummers Posts: 738 Member
    Agreed. I track it for the "previous" day.
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    Same here :)
  • albinogorilla
    albinogorilla Posts: 1,056 Member
    previous for me, work until midnight, then workout, and count it as that pre-sleep day, plus, if you go over on calories, you know exactly how many calories you need to burn!
  • mmuzzatti
    mmuzzatti Posts: 704 Member
    It depends on if its after midnight but your 6 hours behind Italy then it goes on the day before!
  • juliesummers
    juliesummers Posts: 738 Member
    The idea is that when you work out (even if it's late in the day, ie after midnight) you're still actively burning off the calories you consumed in that day. While you're sleeping, your body is storing all of those unburned nutrients/calories as fat, utilizing them to rebuild cells or storing them in the liver as glycogen (rather than being burned off).
  • LemonPoppySeedMuffin
    LemonPoppySeedMuffin Posts: 302
    The idea is that when you work out (even if it's late in the day, ie after midnight) you're still actively burning off the calories you consumed in that day. While you're sleeping, your body is storing all of those unburned nutrients/calories as fat, utilizing them to rebuild cells or storing them in the liver as glycogen (rather than being burned off).

    Thanks :)
  • LemonPoppySeedMuffin
    LemonPoppySeedMuffin Posts: 302
    The idea is that when you work out (even if it's late in the day, ie after midnight) you're still actively burning off the calories you consumed in that day. While you're sleeping, your body is storing all of those unburned nutrients/calories as fat, utilizing them to rebuild cells or storing them in the liver as glycogen (rather than being burned off).

    Thanks :)
  • Cmon78
    Cmon78 Posts: 67 Member
    I agree. I track it the previous day...it's not a new day until I go to sleep and wake.
  • ReinasWrath
    ReinasWrath Posts: 1,173 Member
    previous day, just like if I eat after midnight. I don't count as a new day until after I've slept.
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