Nurses?

I'm an EKG/EEG tech in a hospital setting and I work Midday - Midnight.
I'm trying to lose 100 lbs. (3 down already, 97 more to go!)
I have found that snacking while I'm doing paperwork is my biggest downfall.
So, instead of chips and such I have been eating a packet of oatmeal and then drinking a glass of water.

Add me! I would love to help motivate and exchange tips and such!

I am a 53 year old NNP that works 24 hour shifts. I have 35 pounds to loose.

Be interesting to see how you deal with weight loss given the physical nature of your job, long shifts and timing. I've done quite physical work involving a lot of moving around whilst Intermittent Fasting but not as much movement as a nurse, I don't think. I felt I had to keep hydrated but I also felt I had to have a conscious willpower to move as my body's preferred option was to just sit down. Hunger feelings were the least of my problems.

I do train fasted but perhaps even though it is hellishly intense activity, it's short (30-60 minutes).

Feel free to add me as a friend.

Hi! I'm not in the medical field but in the law enforcement field. I work 12 hour shifts also, one month I work days 6a-6p then go to a months of nights 6p-6a, 50-60 hrs a week. It's difficult, especially because the hardest thing to learn is to eat more but small portions to keep the metabolism up. Everyone's first thought when starting the weight loss process is to eat less. I have a coworker who wants to lose weight and eats almost nothing (her breakfast for 6 hours is eating dry corn flakes from the "to go" gas station pack) then we usually have Subway.

I've been trying for this whole year and lost about 20 lbs, although I'm so scared of the scale I never look. I just tell my dr.'s to tell me if I've lost. I don't want to know the numbers. My dr.'s have said "about 20 lbs" but I don't even care about numbers, I care about how I look. I have another coworker (who works in the field) who has lost almost 100 lbs but goes to the gym everyday for hours and eats way, way healthy. I've never been a good healthy eater and never have eaten veggies so I'm learning. Not to mention adding a severe ankle injury (complete reconstruction using cadaver bones and tissue, including two other surgeries, one botched created permanent nerve damage makes it almost too painful to even walk) added in to a sedimentary job....but I've started walking and just started going to the gym doing elliptical workouts. So, baby steps!!

I'm a Medical assistant and I am back on MFP as of two days ago. I am going slow and steady this time and making life changes one day at a time.

Hey, I worked as a midwife for a few years after having children and it was then that I was at my heaviest. It was so hard to lose weight when I was doing 12 hour shifts and never getting a proper break to sit down and eat something real. People think the less they eat the better but it's so not true. I would go all day without eating on the ward and then when I got home at 9-10 o'clock at night I would pig out on high fat food to satisfy my low blood sugars. It is really hard and when you're tired you don't prepare food in advance but looking back that is what I would definitely do different. Make salads to take into work ready to eat... healthy snacks and have healthy stuff ready in freezer to defrost for dinner when I got home. Preparation like a girl scout :-)

Stupid question from me, perhaps, but could you not pig out at the end of the day? What if you just ate a calorie-measured meal?

I'm an RN. I work 12 hr shifts, work out 5-7 days/week. Nurses feel free to add me.

Also a 27 y/o RN! I work days tho...The 12 hour shifts are hard with meals! But I pack my food every single day. I eat eggs before work. Oatmeal as AM snack. Pack a balanced lunch of lean meat, veggies, and brown rice or sweet potato, AND and afternoon snack.
I have to plan or I'll starve or go binging in the cafeteria.
I pack my meals the night before so I don't have to do it in the morning. Obviously you know you won't always have time for snacking, but protein shakes are fast, or 100cal almond packs, low fat cheese sticks, etc.
I don't have a lot of weight to lose, but I'm about to start training for a fitness competition, so my diet has to be on point. NO EXCUSES!!

New grad pediatric oncology nurse here! Looking to lose about 40 pounds that I put on in the last three years from undergrad stress and starting work! I do 12 hour shifts on a day/night rotation. I have the most trouble staying under my calorie limit when I work nights and then transition back to days because I get hungry at odd hours! If anyone has tips for this/night shift eating, I'd love to hear them!

Hi there,

Im a Stroke Nurse in the UK, I work either 7.30-3.30 or 1p-9p, 5 shifts a week, but we are currently in the process of our trust changing to 12 hour shift patterns.

I find eating ' breakfast' hard, because for me that means before work, and I just don't have time If I am dropping my daughter at childcare, so then my break in shift is around 10am for my first meal.

Next break is around 1330, so depending what was for breakfast, I dont' feel like lunch.

Maybe I should grab a piece of fruit before and treat my first break as mid morning thing?

Anyways, feel free to add me and looking forward to new friends!