Meals during the Night?

GettingFit4Me2011

What do you typically eat while working the night?

This is my typically work schedule for my first night back to work. I go to sleep around 10am and usually wake up around lunch because I am hungry, so I eat something light (cereal/milk) and head off back to bed and attempt to get a few more hours of sleep. I usually only get maybe 4-5 hours of sleep my first night.

I wake up, and I am not usually hungry. I might have an apple and some milk prior to leaving for work at 5:30pm.

By 8-11pm, I am usually very hungry, I will eat 1/2 of a bagel thin sandwich, save the other half for later in the night, I love celery, so I may eat some celery too. I always pack a grapefruit, apple, banana, bagel thin sandwich, yogurt and if I have my bean salad made up (I bring this too!)

It seems like I am hungry every 3 hours or so while working, so I will snack on my lunch items. I am drinking my water during the night also.

I also figured out that I am not eating enough calories when I am working. I guess my other days will balance out the calorie amounts. I typically work 2 days with a few days off and start nights again.

Please post what you eat during the night.

lacroyx

I work graveyard 11pm-7:30 am
I have 2 meals. 1 @ work and 1 @ home. a typical lunch for me @ work is
Turkey Sandwhich on whole wheat with spinach, 1 tsp of mustard, 1 tbsp of light mayo and 1 slice of kraft low fat cheese
2 cup of veggies. usually frozen Normandy mix from Costco.
water
jello or greek yogurt
piece of fruit
1 cup of coffee
10-15 animal crackers or ½ a muffin
granola bar

900-1000 calories there.

I'll then have my 2nd meal around noon-1pm. I'm in bed by 3pm. wake up @ 10:30pm and do it all over again.

this is all spread out through out my shift. on Sat and Sun, I work weeknds, I also have the luxury of going outside and walking/jogging. on those days I just drink the cup of coffee and then take my fitness break. I then eat the rest of my lunch spread through out the night.

Crystal817

I work 7pm - 7am.

I eat breakfast when I get up around 3-4pm. I usually have coffee (of course!), oatmeal or an egg white omelette with some toast.

I don't get to snack at all while I'm working, so I don't eat again until 11pm or 12am! Here is where I consume a good portion of calories. It varies from night to night. I try and plan ahead and make a big batch of something on my days off, so I can just grab and reheat on break. Otherwise, I eat a frozen meal. I usually have something sweet to snack on as well and (of course) another small coffee.

I have a snack on second break. Depends what I feel like... usually something around 200 calories or less.

I eat something small when I get home from work at 7am. Usually 2 egg whites, bacon and half of a light flatout wrap.

I don't log from midnight to midnight. I just log from whenever I get up, until I go back to bed.

Cait_Sidhe

I work 12 hours, 8:30pm-8:30am. I have a long bus commute which doesn't involve anywhere I'd like to eat. So I only eat at work on my worknights. I pretty much eat like a normal person though.

Before I clock in I have coffee and oatmeal or a bowl of cereal with almond milk.

Around midnight or so I eat lunch. It varies. Tonight I had portobello mushroom wraps.

After the 3am treatments are done(vet tech) I eat my dinner. Tonight it'll be a microwave potato with a cheese wedge. I do usually eat something more substantial though. Daystaff threw out my food in the fridge (grr!). For the past few months I've been eating a veggie/fish curry type of thing.

My food diary's open.

chipmunk70

Ok, this is what I've found works for me.

I get home off a night shift and into bed at about 8am - don't normally have anything to eat before going to bed
I sleep until about 2pm, and then get up, depending on whether I'm hungry or not I might have a snack - either a low calorie fruit bar, or some fruit
Between 5pm and 6pm I'll normally have my main meal of the day like I would if I was working days
then at about 7.30pm I head off to work.
Officially start work at 8.45pm and the first few hours up until midnight are normally hectic.
I normally hold out until about 2am before having what I brought in with me - which is normally a sandwich (just 2 slices of bread), an indivdiual packet of rice cakes, a low fat yogurt (or 2) and some fruit. I'll spread this out between 2am and 4am. From 5am on wards it can get quite hectic again.
I have access to my water/juice all the time, so get this in as well.

hypersensitiveb

Any advice on what eating schedule to follow if your schedule is always changing? My appetite seems to have increased now that its changing all the time.