Question about when to eat, as it applies to night shifts.

Jonesie · Post by **Jonesie** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:49 am

I work nights right, 12am - 8am, and in order to maintain a semi normal life, I get to sleep around 9:00 / 9:30am and sleep till 5:00pm. Now needless to say I ate like crap and didn't work out and all that jazz, so I'm in piss poor shape.

Anyway, I'm attempting to lose weight, get healthier, and just live better. Unfortunitly I'm having issues with how life coinsides with everyone else, meal wise. For instance, when I would wake up, everyone else I live with is having dinner, so I would just have a smaller portions of what they made. I'm not sure if this is really a good idea or not. Also would working out and then go into a healthy meal regardless of weither or not it's 'breakfast food' or 'dinner food' not make a difference... I don't know, in the simplest form, I'm looking for advice. How would you break down a meal plan for hours? And yes, I do have an weights and cardio penciled in plan already, just struggeling with the meals.

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:14 am

Treat your meals same as a person with normal working hours would or should.

Meal 1: Breakfast, with some kind of high GI carb source.

Meal 2: Healthy Snack

Meal 3. Lunch

Meal 4. Healthy Snack

Meal 5. Dinner

Meal 6. Healthy Snack

Keep most other Carb sources lower GI, except for after workouts, when a bit of high GI would work, to spike lowered Bloodsugar, same as at Breakfast.

Keep meal spaces 2.5-3 hours, and remember to get a good amount of Protein and Carbs, and a few Fats.

It's just the same thing as someone else would or should do, but you're just having them at different times to others, but keeping the same sort of meal formats and structure.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:52 pm

as bossman said...don't please others, please yourself...i almost always eat seperately to those i eat with when i do to have proper meals...i don't care so they shouldn't and they do it doesn't matter to me...or your also being a little lazy maybe

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:22 pm

Yeah. I had worrying vision, of this guy getting up, freshening up, then about 1hr after waking, having a Lamb Chop or something like that at about 5-6PM.

Not saying he does that, but I'd need minimum about 4 hours post-sleep, before I could envisige tackling a chunky Flesh source.

Jonesie · Post by **Jonesie** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:38 am

Thanks for the advice, it'll give me something to think about. Going to be interesting to come up with ways to make dinner at work or find things that heat up well at work. But oh well, I'm sure I'll come up with something.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:19 pm

sandwitches and fruit...tins of tuna...left overs from previous night's dinner...cuts of meat..raw veg/salad...plenty of options really just need to be prepared