Shift Work

[elegant1 48]

For those of you that work at night what is your eating and exercising schedule. I'm trying to figure this out before I return to work which is a 12hr night shift.

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[New&Improved 1,780]

Will need to learn to prepare meals or shakes I advance

[MzTrip 52]

I'm a night worker, too. I walk to and from work because it's around the corner but I find it a lot easier to exercise right after work. I'll get home, change, and go right back out to walk. Sometimes it's hard to get the motivation after I wake up or before work so it really works best even after working all night. It's my wind down. Meals I usually eat within an hour of being awake. Then I eat about every 4 hours. I do have one shake a day which I save for when I know it's going to he hard to get a break to eat. I almost always have some sort of small snack ... Pistachios are my favorite but I don't eat a lot of them because they sit kind of heavy in my stomach which, ironically, is also the reason I choose them... I don't feel full so quickly. It doesn't always work so picture perfect but trying to stick to a time schedule works for me. Good luck [emoji171] I hope you find something that works for you.

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[justmetj 421]

I used to work 1st Watch and I agree with @MzTrip I used to workout immediately after my shift because I knew once I went to sleep I'd make up some excuse not to do it when I woke up.

[LessFee 61]

Fortunately, I walk A LOT at work. I can easily crank out 14,000+ steps. I can’t work out after work because I’ll get too wired to sleep. I’m still on a liquid diet, and when I go back to work, I’ll have another week of it. So my meals will be Protein Shakes. Going forward, I see myself taking tuna packets or chicken salad—just something small. I don’t really like to eat on the nights I work anyway. It just doesn’t feel right to eat a whole lot in the middle of the night.

[kristieshannon 1,558]

I used to work nights, 7p-7:30a and this was a time when I lost 75 lbs, was exercising regularly and eating very healthy. I would get up at 3:30, walk a couple miles. Come home and get ready for work, including packing all my food for the shift. I would eat a light dinner, packed the rest of my food for the day for during my shift. Home by 8 and went right to sleep before getting up to do it all over again. The key was meal prep and shopping on my days off. I'd have everything ready to go, portioned out, and ready to grab for my lunch sack.

[stilljustafatguy 13]

I get most of my Fluid intake at night at work. when i wake up usually around 1 or 2 pm is when i eat. if i work out its usually right after work if not i wait til my days off and work out late at night.