When is the eating cutoff when you work late 2nd shift in an office?

cordialgreeter
cordialgreeter Posts: 4 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I struggle with working late hours in an office. Right we are working massive Overtime hours. My normal shift is 5pm-1:30am but lately I have to work until 3:30am then I go to bed as soon as I get home by 4:30am. Should I cut off eating by midnight? These hours are bad for my weight.

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  • JaneSnowe
    JaneSnowe Posts: 1,283 Member
    Hi cordialgreeter!

    You'll be happy to know that the time you eat has nothing to do with weight loss. Neither time of day nor timing before you sleep!

    Just stay at a calorie deficit and you're golden! :)
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    You don't need to have a cutoff unless you want to do so. It's pretty meaningless for weight loss. Some people find that not eating at the end of the day helps them to control mindless snacking.
  • Moxie42
    Moxie42 Posts: 1,400 Member
    Exactly what they said. There are small benefits to not eating right before sleep but nothing that will directly make or break your plan. I don't work graveyard shift but I do work at least 10+ hour days (and I don't even take a lunch break), sometimes a lot more, and now I go to the gym after work. So I tend to not eat dinner until 8:30 or even as late as 9:30, and then I'm in bed around 10:30 or 11:00. To each their own but personally I feel like I have bigger fish to fry than to worry about the time of day I'm eating :smile:
  • astrampe
    astrampe Posts: 2,169 Member
    Shiftwork sucks, but you can eat whenever you want. Just set yourself a time when your "day" ends and log your daily calories for that period. If your day ends at 4:30, you can still have food at 4:29 and log it and go sleep - it will not do anything to weightloss....
  • LizJones4997
    LizJones4997 Posts: 2 Member
    I work 1:30 pm to 10 pm and I hear you about the late eating. I work from home so on my "lunch" break we consider it dinner. I eat with the family and then have a snack about 8 pm. I do not eat when I get off shift because that is a huge over eat trigger for me. I have friends that work even later and they choose to have their dinner when they get off shift....it's whatever works for you!
  • terbusha
    terbusha Posts: 1,483 Member
    As long as you are within your appropriate calorie and macro goals for the day, then how you spread your calories out doesn't really matter. There really isn't a cutoff where you need to stop eating by to lose weight. People get into trouble with eating in the evening because they snack mindlessly and end up going way over their calorie goal.

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