Question about eating after Midnight

Phatmomma
Phatmomma Posts: 204 Member
edited September 18 in Health and Weight Loss
When you guys eat after midnight do you put it on the current days journal or the same day (that starts at midnight)? Yesterday/today I had a late night so I at after midnight? So Now I'm like do I cut calories today or just consider the day as 24 hours from the time my day started? Hope that makes sense.

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  • Phatmomma
    Phatmomma Posts: 204 Member
    When you guys eat after midnight do you put it on the current days journal or the same day (that starts at midnight)? Yesterday/today I had a late night so I at after midnight? So Now I'm like do I cut calories today or just consider the day as 24 hours from the time my day started? Hope that makes sense.
  • delanahub
    delanahub Posts: 56
    I am not sure,,,,but unless you work nights stop eating at midnight, it is never good.
  • littleone68
    littleone68 Posts: 67 Member
    Technically it's considered the next day, but I know a lot of people that work 3rd shift and calculate accordingly. A "day" for them may begin at 10-11 am and end at 2 am, so their cycle would be totally different than someone whose "day" begins at 6 am and ends at say 10pm
  • lietee
    lietee Posts: 189 Member
    hehe good new is that we will not turn into gremlins hahah :) But count it as you want id say put it on the day during the time you were awake. Before oyu sleep athen you start fresh when you wake up!
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    You know I've never had that come up, but I guess I would deliniate by sleep, just because that is a more natural segmentation then a clock. The sleep cycle is a good reset for your body's clock anyway so it makes sense to start a day when you wake and end it when you go to sleep (what I would do if you don't sleep, I have NO idea):tongue: .
  • abbychelle07
    abbychelle07 Posts: 656 Member
    I pass out every night at 9:30pm. :blushing:

    Anyway, I would just log it until midnight or until you fall asleep. Just be sure to do it the same way every time.
  • Phatmomma
    Phatmomma Posts: 204 Member
    Thanks guys and gals. Sounds like basing it on when I sleep makes perfect sense. :flowerforyou:
  • hmmmm
    hmmmm Posts: 607 Member
    I go by the sleep thing too. Although. There was this time when I got up to make the baby a bottle in the middle of the night. Half asleep and dazed I stumbled into the kitchen and saw the chocolate chip cookies my fiance left out. I ate three and then fell asleep. I was pretty annoyed with myself the nezt day when I logged those cookes in. I barely remembered eating them and definitely wouldn't have if they weren't left on that counter. This was the start of me on MFP I was sooooo disappointed that I had to start the day with less than 1000 calories. -Heather.
    Ps cookies have never been left out since. :-)
  • Phatmomma
    Phatmomma Posts: 204 Member
    I go by the sleep thing too. Although. There was this time when I got up to make the baby a bottle in the middle of the night. Half asleep and dazed I stumbled into the kitchen and saw the chocolate chip cookies my fiance left out. I ate three and then fell asleep. I was pretty annoyed with myself the nezt day when I logged those cookes in. I barely remembered eating them and definitely wouldn't have if they weren't left on that counter. This was the start of me on MFP I was sooooo disappointed that I had to start the day with less than 1000 calories. -Heather.
    Ps cookies have never been left out since. :-)

    Lol too cute. :laugh: I used to do that when I had to get my baby "icy cold-wa-wa" for heaven forbid she drink tap. I'd go downstairs and devour cookies or whatever was handy in less than a 3 minutes on the way upstairs with the wa-wa. Now I keep icy wa-wa in the keep cold cup.
  • vldowd
    vldowd Posts: 74 Member
    I was having the same dilema due to working nightshift. 1 night I work a full graveyard then the next 3 I work swings until midnight. I designated 2:00 am as my cutoff time since that is normally when I goto sleep on swings.

    This way you are not starting your true day with a deficit, and can reward yourself at the end of the day when you have surplus calories that need to be eaten.
  • Phatmomma
    Phatmomma Posts: 204 Member
    I was having the same dilema due to working nightshift. 1 night I work a full graveyard then the next 3 I work swings until midnight. I designated 2:00 am as my cutoff time since that is normally when I goto sleep on swings.

    This way you are not starting your true day with a deficit, and can reward yourself at the end of the day when you have surplus calories that need to be eaten.

    Good point and great tips. I work odd hours with my work and my side business so that may be better and give me the juice I need to run too.
  • AlbertSchwartz
    AlbertSchwartz Posts: 810
    Phew, as long as we don't turn in to Gremlins we're ok...
  • Phatmomma
    Phatmomma Posts: 204 Member
    Phew, as long as we don't turn in to Gremlins we're ok...

    Lol, well not getting any sleep because of a big storm last night with 3 inch hail pelting every part of my roof and windows and running lat and this big zit on my cheek, I FEEL like a Gremlin.:devil:
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