Night Shift!

lee112780

I think I bounce too much on it or something lol It just seems like gravity is doing the work. The stairmaster is a different story...I sweat bullets on that thing...even if it's a low level. Military? cool. Lots of people in the military here...Im right outside of DC! I want to lose weight so I feel comfortable on stage...where I belong

nahhan12

I used to work night shift and it was the worst! I would eat food to keep myself awake and pass the time. What I found worked best was to plan out my snacks and only eat them at a certain time, like 3am, 6am, and then a meal when I got home.

mysi019

I work nights/afternoons shift and its horrible for routine. I work 2 7pm-7am a week and 2 3pm-11pm a week so then i get 3 days off. I have a hard time finding time to work out on my days to work since my body is so messed up all i want to do is sleep. I also find myself snacking alot at night, though i have kinda used that as an advantage. I will eat a bigger meal with my boyfriend before coming to work then make a light lunch and some small snacks so i can still snack whenever i want. I just make sure its all entered on this site before work so i know exactly where i stand and cant go over. I also have been forcing myself to drink more water during the night. I also cut myself off from the snacks at about 4am so that when i get home(i usally go right to bed) its about 3 or so hours since the last time i ate anything. When i get up in the morning i eat something very light maybe a cheese stick or some egg whites depending if i am on mids, day off or afternoons.

lee112780

wish i could change my shift...but I am the newest one here and no one else wants to work it

MamaRandall

I'm so happy their are other people out there struggling with the night shift routine too. I work 10 pm to 6 am. I have found that I eat dinner with my family at 7pm and then bring two protein shakes or fruit. I drink my first around midnight and then one at 4 or 5 am before I go home so I'm not eating right before bed. And then at about noonish when I wake up, I make me some eggs or a whole wheat bagel to start my day out and just eat a small snack between than and dinner at 7.

mysi019

I too am the lowest, i get bumped every so often to a new shift, then back to the straight mids, then bumped again. Its a never ending cycle

leanmass24

Lee if you are bouncing on you probably need to turn up the resistance. It helps with the bouncing cause it makes you go slower. Yeah the military, I wanna go back so bad right now. It is not bad as long as you have a decent job. I was an air traffic controller, but I think that I wanna do something else this time. I will stay till I retire if I can. Which won't be too long. I can be retired at 45. Then I can go do whatever I want and have a paycheck and benefits for life.

allie7383

And speaking of days off messing you up.. I'm in the middle of 2 nights off lol! Went to a concert yesterday, though got my workout in so I was still just under my calories for the day. Today, here goes nothing.. It's already rather warm out, so I'm hoping to get something in when the sun goes down.

lee112780

Lean...I will try that!
Im off for three nights, I was lucky enough to work 4 10 hr shifts this wk. Its hard to sleep at night when Im off though!

leanmass24

I am off for my 3 days also.... :-) I shoulda went and worked out last night but my workout partner wasnt feeling well so i didnt. I am mad at myself now, but I guess I will go today no matter what. I was up on my calories yesterday too not by much though, just 83.

allie7383

I'm back to work tonight after 2 nights off. I find that first night back to be the worst since you're coming off of sleeping at night like the rest of the world. Fortunately tonight I'm pretty awak since I ended up sleeping in til about 11am. Unfortunately this only happened because I seem to have a bit of a sinus infection that made me so congested I couldn't breathe at all through my nose, which kept me up late and caused me to wake up twice during the night, yuck! Thank god for Tylenol Sinus!