Work night shifts

AngelicaSamuelsson92
AngelicaSamuelsson92 Posts: 46 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hey everyone.
So I was wondering do you have any experience with working night shifts and eating food?
Thinking it could be the reason for me not loosing any weight or am I all wrong?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    If you aren't losing, you aren't in a deficit. Working nights has no effect on that.

    Are you counting calories? Logging everything as accurately as possible (including using a food scale, recipe builder over homemade/generic entries, etc.)?
  • AngelicaSamuelsson92
    AngelicaSamuelsson92 Posts: 46 Member
    I used to write everything down on the shape up app so that I could go back and see what I had eaten but I never scale it. And maybe that's the reason why I never loose weight? Even tho I eat healthy maybe I eat to much ?
    So I am going to start to weight everything now.
  • adoette
    adoette Posts: 181 Member
    As someone struggling to stay awake for my second 7p-7a shift in a row, night shift has nothing to do with it.

    Except...

    One of the biggest problems working night is that you never seem to be able to stay awake all that well. I'm not sure why, though I've heard every theory in the book. Most of us (here in my unit) turn to snacks when we've had too much coffee. It could be that you have some phantom calories coming in that way. (I had a wee problem with that, but I'm doing much better.)

    The most likely answer is what mailbu said. Weighing things on a scale helps you to understand proper food portions. Lots of people eat healthy and fail to lose weight, or in this part of the world, get horribly fat on a decent diet.

    Once you get a good idea of the portion sizes you are consuming you can get a better idea of where you've hit a snag. For some, it's things like salad dressing or ketchup where you are consuming more than you think (2 tbls is really not that much) or more sneaky foods like grilled chicken or something like hummus. Some is good, but too much is too much.

    I don't know the shape up app, but remember that MFP has a great food logging system and is pretty much the easiest way to count calories ever. The barcode scanner is the best invention ever.
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    One of my previous responses to a similar question : I strictly work nights. What I did was changed my meals from breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks to 0000-0600, 0600-1200, 1200-1800, 1800-0000, so that all my days are 24hrs regardless of when I go to sleep, wake up or work. It seems to work well for me and the 24hrs match up with my Fitbit burn.
  • ManitaThongkam
    ManitaThongkam Posts: 2 Member
    For my routine, I woke 4 night shifts per week and some week more. I always fix my water 3 litre per days, 1-2 cups of black coffee, sometime I'm hungry I will prepare my japanease pea☺ that's heal me to maintain my calories that I don't need to worry how much I take.
    Routine exercise, 4-5 days a week and make program for jogging, cardio dance and sometime walk on thread mill, but important I rest enough then work out 30-45 min/day.
    Cardio training must be good for me at beginner than I can burn more when I do exercise.
    Rest more, workout more

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