Help with eating times :D

chinny88
chinny88 Posts: 93 Member
edited November 30 in Health and Weight Loss
So I work 3.30pm-Midnight.... Most days. So I have breakfast at 10 ish then lunch at 1ish but don't get my lunch break until 8pm and find that by 5 or 6 I start picking and when u work in fast food that's not great. Not sure how to organise my meals

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Eat your lunch right before your shift starts.
  • blueboxgeek
    blueboxgeek Posts: 574 Member
    Are you able to put off your lunch an hour or so? If you could stretch lunch until around 2.30 then maybe you can get up to 8pm without picking. Make sure you have some proteins and fats as they keep you feeling fuller for longer.

    Are you allowed any snacks in work? If you could have a few minutes to grab something that you had calculated in your calorie allowance that would help.

    The alternative I guess would be to save 100-200 calories and try and add up the food you pick on and stop when you get to the limit.
  • chinny88
    chinny88 Posts: 93 Member
    chinny88 wrote: »
    So I work 3.30pm-Midnight.... Most days. So I have breakfast at 10 ish then lunch at 1ish but don't get my lunch break until 8pm and find that by 5 or 6 I start picking and when u work in fast food that's not great. Not sure how to organise my meals
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Eat your lunch right before your shift starts.

    Yeh I thought about this, maybe having a cuppa when I get up, breakfast at 11ish and then lunch at 2 or 3 yeh maybe il try that tomorrow
  • brb_2013
    brb_2013 Posts: 1,197 Member
    I don't eat breakfast and found it to solve all my meal timing issues. By not eating a meal until 1 or so, I adjusted really quickly to not being hungry until then. Maybe a week or so I was hungry but coffee and water helped me get through and I knew I'd get used to it.

    So now I manage to eat just two meals per day, but if you still wanted your three you could eat your breakfast immediately before you leave for work (what most people would do with a normal work schedule, right?), and then lunch at your 8pm break. Then you'd have dinner when you get home after work. I imagine with a work schedule like this you'd adjust your whole day, so you probably don't rush right to bed at 12:01, probably stay up a few hours to relax? I'm thinking about your eating schedule in terms of your work hours and not on a "normal" meal schedule makes the most sense.
  • chinny88
    chinny88 Posts: 93 Member
    brb_2013 wrote: »
    I don't eat breakfast and found it to solve all my meal timing issues. By not eating a meal until 1 or so, I adjusted really quickly to not being hungry until then. Maybe a week or so I was hungry but coffee and water helped me get through and I knew I'd get used to it.

    So now I manage to eat just two meals per day, but if you still wanted your three you could eat your breakfast immediately before you leave for work (what most people would do with a normal work schedule, right?), and then lunch at your 8pm break. Then you'd have dinner when you get home after work. I imagine with a work schedule like this you'd adjust your whole day, so you probably don't rush right to bed at 12:01, probably stay up a few hours to relax? I'm thinking about your eating schedule in terms of your work hours and not on a "normal" meal schedule makes the most sense.

    Ha you make crazy sense :D I don't go to bed as soon as I'm home :D My partner thinks I'm crazy not to but she works days and has no idea lol I told her to come home at 5.30 one night and go straight to bed :D and she went yup I see ur point :D
  • distinctlybeautiful
    distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
    Can you push for a short break before your lunch break? In my state, the law says you get a thirty minute unpaid lunch break for every five hours you work and a paid ten minute break for every four hours, which means in five hours you'd actually get a ten and a thirty. I dunno how it works where you are. If you can't, maybe bring a snack that fits in your pocket and eat that instead of picking at stuff in the place.
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