How long is your day & how much do you eat?

I have really long days too, and I try to do a larger number of smaller meals on the longer days. That keeps me going. As long as you don't go over your calories, you should be fine.

My day starts at 6am and I have days I work until 10pm (not all, but some). I don't snack, it's bad for the (my) liver. Before work, I consume 2-3 tbsp of coconut oil....either in a warm up of coconut cream (3-4 oz) or a combination of this in a blender cold, with a raw egg and ice...so basically a smoothie. This hold me over until lunch, around noon, which is my main meal. If I work late, then it's probably all I eat, unless I grab something at around 4 and that's it for the day. If I end work at regular quittin' time, 4pm then I eat dinner around 5-6 and that's it. Again, no snacking for me, no need as I eat enough to carry me to the next meal or I fall into a intermittent fast. Those are nothing but beneficial for me.

So even though I dont count calories, I eat anywhere from 800-2200 per day. Depending on how hungry I am and how readily available the food is.

My day typically starts at 5am with a run (or strength trng) and goes until 10-11pm. Lately I've been trying just something light before the workout - usually a banana. Then run and get ready for work and have my actual 'breakfast' - for that I've been having 1/2 C oatmeal with 1 C water, microwaved, then I add 1/4 C milk, 1T honey, & 2T organic peanut butter. I've been amazed at how full that keeps me, I'm no longer looking for multiple snacks to get me through to lunch and I even find myself having lunch later than I used to.
I'm a duathloner so many evenings also include a bike ride after work. Since I usually have just a salad for lunch I do get hungry in the afternoon but I try to hold off on the snack until just before leaving work (unless I'm really starving) that way I've got a little something in my belly for the bike ride. I keep raw, unsalted almonds and raisins in my desk for snacks, just a few of the almonds seem to do the trick if I need something.
I then tend to have a late dinner, about 8pm then a little after that I have my coveted dessert. I'm one of those people who if I don't have some type of dessert every night I'll reach that point where I make an entire batch of chocolate chip cookies and eat them all! So the later dinner and then knowing that my dessert will come shortly before bed I'm able to stay away from the evening snacking.

My day is 24 hours :bigsmile: and I adjust the amount of food I eat after taking stock of myself about once a week. I generally eat 3000-4000 calories a day. works for me.

I am normally a 7am-11 pm person. However, I work 2 days a week as an ER nurse and that shift is from 2 pm to 2:30 am and most days I am up around 8 (so 6 hours before work). I tried to eat about 300 calories every 3-4 hours, so I sometimes do go over my calorie allotment. However, knowing my job, I also burn a lot more on those days (and also workout beforehand and burn about 600 calories). I find that if I don't eat enough I come home and eat my house...

today: 545 am to present (11:19 pm -- why the hell am I still up?)!

I ate about 2200 calories today, and the last 6 things I ate were cookies

I get up at 4:30, breakfast at 6 (which I forgot today), snack at 9, lunch at 12, snack at 3, dinner at 6, back to bed at 9. Of course, I don't keep those exact times, they're just guidelines, sort of.