I have an odd shift working type job which causes me to stay up for 24 hours at a time. To counteract long hours I'm awake I sleep for 12 hours at a time. I've been doing this for a while and it didn't seem to affect me too much. I recently started counting calories and trying to bulk and noticed a decrease in weight even when eating well over my calculated maintenance. I then started thinking about my eating pattern and that I'm eating these calories I calculated from the sticky for "per day calories" in the 24 hour window that I'm awake so I am up and active from 12pm sat -12pm sun for example then waking up at 12am Monday and going to sleep 12am Tuesday and so on. I started to think that I might be missing a day or 2 worth of calories at the end of the week but then thought I may not. I'm a huge pothead so when trying to think about this further I got confused and ended up hurting my brain. Could someone more intelligent than me asses my situation and tell me if in fact I'm missing out on 1 or 2 days worth of calories per week.
Thanks.
I tried to outline what I think could be happening but I'm still super confused. I don't wanna keep underrating (if I am) but I don't wanna screw this whole thing up and way over eat.
My Schedule:
12pm sat wake (1 day of meals)
12pm sun sleep
wake up 12am monday (1 day of meals)
sleep 12am tuesday
wake up 12 pm tues(1 day of meals)
sleep 12 pm wed
wake up 12am thurs (1 day of meals)
sleep 12am fri
wake up 12 pm fr (1 day of meals)
sleep 12 pm sat
Total days of meals = 5
Compared to a 24 sleep schedule:
wake up 12pm sat (1 day of meals)
sleep 4am sun
wake up 12pm sun (1 day of meals)
sleep 4am mond
wake up 12pm mon (1 day of meals)
sleep 4am tues
wake up 12pm tues (1 day of meals)
sleep 4am wed
wake up 12pm wed (1 day of meals)
sleep 4am thur
wake up 12pm thur (1 day of meals)
sleep 4am fr
wake up 12pm Fr (1 day of meals)
sleep 4am sat
Total days of meals = 7
F***K I'm so confused
Reps on recharge to anyone that can ease my mind.
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12-29-2011, 07:32 PM #1
Odd questions about daily calories
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12-29-2011, 07:36 PM #2
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TLDR; actually I did and the huge pothead comment was priceless.
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12-29-2011, 07:41 PM #3
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