txturtlegirl
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Ok, I went to SparkPeople and set up a food tracker and all. Sunday through Wednesday shouldn't be a problem at all.
My confusion comes in my work schedule for the end of the week. Mon through Wed I work 6am - 2:30pm. So, I'm in bed by 8:30 or so, no big deal. However, Thursday and Friday I work 10pm - 6:30am. So basically I'm up almost 24 hours on Thursday and into Friday, then sleep until the afternoon and then I'm up for Friday until I get off work Saturday morning. I go back to sleep when I get home on Saturday and sleep for part of the afternoon, then get up and try to go back to bed at a descent time Sat night to be a "normal" person on Sun and do it all again starting Monday.
Now, when tracking food: Should I count a day as the time between the time I get out of bed and the time I get back in bed? Or is it the time between midnight one day and midnight the next? It just seems odd to me to be wriging down "breakfast" at 3:30 in the afternoon. And then on days like Thursday, I end up with breakfast at a normal time, lunch, supper, and then a 2nd meal while I'm at work (8 hours constantly going is a long time to go without some sort of meal!). Yesterday, I ate when I got up for the day, and that was late enough that I didn't eat anything else until my "lunch" at work - at 1:30am. So would lunch have been yesterday, since I hadn't been to sleep yet? Or today, since it was technically after midnight on the 9th?
See my problem?? LOL.
Thanks!
My confusion comes in my work schedule for the end of the week. Mon through Wed I work 6am - 2:30pm. So, I'm in bed by 8:30 or so, no big deal. However, Thursday and Friday I work 10pm - 6:30am. So basically I'm up almost 24 hours on Thursday and into Friday, then sleep until the afternoon and then I'm up for Friday until I get off work Saturday morning. I go back to sleep when I get home on Saturday and sleep for part of the afternoon, then get up and try to go back to bed at a descent time Sat night to be a "normal" person on Sun and do it all again starting Monday.
Now, when tracking food: Should I count a day as the time between the time I get out of bed and the time I get back in bed? Or is it the time between midnight one day and midnight the next? It just seems odd to me to be wriging down "breakfast" at 3:30 in the afternoon. And then on days like Thursday, I end up with breakfast at a normal time, lunch, supper, and then a 2nd meal while I'm at work (8 hours constantly going is a long time to go without some sort of meal!). Yesterday, I ate when I got up for the day, and that was late enough that I didn't eat anything else until my "lunch" at work - at 1:30am. So would lunch have been yesterday, since I hadn't been to sleep yet? Or today, since it was technically after midnight on the 9th?
See my problem?? LOL.
Thanks!
