Night shift worker.

I used to work nights, and I lost weight because of it because I have never liked to eat at night, so I ended up eating less calories overall. I ate before I went to sleep, after I woke up and then right before I went to work. I was good the entire night through.

You just have to find what works for you, adjust your eating schedule, ad you're good to go. And plan the food for when you do like to eat. Maybe prelog everything.

You can do this!

I've worked nights for almost 10 years now. This is what I tell anyone else who works nights. The number of calories contained in food when the sun is up is exactly the same as the number of calories contained in food when the sun goes down. Set a calorie goal, stick to the calorie goal.

The only complication workings nights adds is that it's sometimes hard to decide what day to count food towards. I personally consider a "day" to end when I go to sleep so if I eat something on Wednesday at 3am, I'm still tacking that for Tuesday. You can choose whenever you want your new day to start. My wife (also works nights) sometimes eats "breakfast" at 4 or 5 am and counts it towards the next day. It's entirely up to you and it doesn't even have to be the same time each day. Just pick a daily goal and stick to it each day.

Im a nurse and work 7p to 8a, schedule is inconsistent so every week I work diff days, so I work 3 nights a week. It definitely is difficult because when I do have a day off, I sleep the whole day away and have a short amount of time to eat all my calories for the day. So here is what I started to do. This week I am working Monday and Tuesday. So I stay awake the night before and go to bed at 8 or 9am. But before bed I will have breakfast or something small because I will be sleeping til 4p. So Ill have either a yogurt, banana, egg whites, spinach with roasted peppers, drink 2 glasses of water, go to bed, wake up at 4p then make myself "lunch" either a salad with chicken, a small sandwich, or maybe some leftovers. Then I head into work by 7p, start to get hungry at 11p so I eat a small snack like cashews, protein bar, yogurt, cottage cheese, veggie sticks. Then I eat my "dinner" around 2 or 3am like chicken with veggies or salad. Then around 5 ill have another small snack. Keep in mind I log all of this in the day befores entry. So when I work tonight, I will still consider it as Mondays entry, not Tuesdays because my day is not over. Then when I get home around 8am if I am still hungry, I will make egg whites, banana or something small before I go to bed and I usually log it on Mondays entry. All depends how many calories I ate the day before. Or ill add it to tuesday if I need to. On my days off I could sleep from 10a to 5p, have a small "breakfast" at 5pm, go to gym, come home at 7p, protein shake, relax, eat "lunch" at 9p and so on. I usually eat every 3 hours because I get hungry quickly.

I work nights and had gained tons of weight because I would eat normal at home (I am up taking care of my daughter much of the day, get little sleep). Then I would go to work and eat more there with snacks and drink lots of sugary caffeinated beverages. Since July 2nd I am down 45 lbs now because I cut all excessive snacking (only bringing small snacks to work), eat smaller meals during the day, learned to say no to goodies at work, stopped teaching for drinks with calories, and I log all foods and stay at or slightly under my calorie goal. I count my food logging day from midnight to midnight, but I know others who do it differently. I like to stop eating by around 9-10pm and I don't eat anything again until morning when I get off work. I focus on snacks with protein so it helps keep me full (hard boiled eggs, string cheese, almonds). Also, forgot to add that on my days off, I reverse my schedule so that I am awake during the day and sleep at night, which is why I don't like to eat much at night on work days to keep things consistent.

Sorry, this is all over the place.

I worked nights for the better part of four years. I would always eat right before I went to work (sometimes I didn't get another chance that night) and take a small snack. When I got off work I usually went home and collapsed into bed with either no food or a glass of milk. I set my workouts for the three days a week I wasn't working, because I was usually too exhausted to workout during the work week.

I've been working graves for about 2 years, from 10p-6a...but I get up to deal with my kids between 2:30-3:30p and don't actually go to bed until around 8:30a. I count my breakfast as the first meal I eat after waking up, and I usually have a snack before I crash out so I don't wake up ravenous. During my nights off though, I usually only get in 1 or 2 meals, and I don't stress on those days about being under. Like today I took the night off so I could take my lil boy trick or treating and not be tired, so I'm only getting in 1 meal, but it was a bigger one, and a few treats. I also make sure to get in plenty of steps in, and have lost 13 lbs in the last 7 weeks. FR if you want.