Counting Calories and Working Nights
Anyone else out there work the night shift? I always struggle with how to count my calories when I work the night shift, especially if I didn't work the night before and had a somewhat normal day (which means a full day of eating!)
Do you count your calories and restart at midnight or do you count calories from the time you wakeup until the time you go to sleep?
Like today, for example, I woke up at 8 and had breakfast. I'll eat my normal meals, snacks, including dinner around 7 as I'm sitting in the report room at work (I'm a nurse). However, in order to get through an entire day I bring another meal, my "lunch", which would inevitably put me over my calories for the day, along with any snacks. It's easier when I work consecutive days because I often just count from when I wake up to when I go to sleep, but it can get kind of confusing.
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