[Misc] Night shift. Advice please...

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I do emergency call outs most nights and just eat when I'm hungry which is usually crap food from various outlets or sometimes nothing until morning.

No wonder you want justice . . . . .

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Hello all,

I've just started a new role doing night shifts. 12 hours, 4 on 4 off. Love the job, don't mind the shift pattern and get good sleep in the day, 6-8 hours but it's absolutely killing my appetite.
Anyone on nights that can offer advice as I'm already losing weight that I don't want to lose.

Any tips on eating or nights in general would be much appreciated

Cheers
TC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkEDe6Ljqs the best I can do
regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Many years since I worked night watches, but I always slept better when having a full English breakfast before going to bed. Cereal, cooked breakfast, followed by toast.

AND A NICE SAUSAGE
regards
DR

 

[junior]

Have you not got a 24hr McDonalds near your job?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

AND A NICE SAUSAGE
regards
DR

Are you [MENTION=1416]Ernest[/MENTION] in disguise?

 

[happypig]

I work 1 week in 5 nights, mon-fri 10 hours, sat/sun 12.5 hours. Have done for 17 years.
I tend to eat a normal meal at teatime, a bit of toast around 03:30 and a sandwich when I get up at about 14:00.
I work at home so can have what I want and have been known to have a big meal in the middle of the night.

If I were you, though, I wouldnt do what I do as I'm an unfit, fat old bloater.

Hope that helps

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I do 9pm to 6am nights. I've never been very good at eating on night shifts, it sometimes makes me feel quite queasy, so I tend to eat a full meal just before I leave at 7:45pm. Cereal with milk was often a go-to if I did happen to be hungry in the small hours though.

Before I sorted my (terrible) diet out recently, I did find it was all too easy to pick up chocolate and crisps from 24hr petrol stations at 3am Haven't done that for about six weeks now, and I've more or less stopped missing it

No mention of doughnuts.

 

[vegster]

Hello all,

I've just started a new role doing night shifts. 12 hours, 4 on 4 off. Love the job, don't mind the shift pattern and get good sleep in the day, 6-8 hours but it's absolutely killing my appetite.
Anyone on nights that can offer advice as I'm already losing weight that I don't want to lose.

Any tips on eating or nights in general would be much appreciated

Cheers
TC

A mate did rolling nights 4 on 4 off, damned near killed him physically over the years. Get out of there as soon as possible, you are messing up all your biorhythms which is not good.

 

[The Clamp]

A mate did rolling nights 4 on 4 off, damned near killed him physically over the years. Get out of there as soon as possible, you are messing up all your biorhythms which is not good.

In can see the concern but suits me at the moment.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

A mate did rolling nights 4 on 4 off, damned near killed him physically over the years. Get out of there as soon as possible, you are messing up all your biorhythms which is not good.

How do you think firefighters cope? Two days on, two nights on, and four off.

 

[Quinney]

How do you think firefighters cope? Two days on, two nights on, and four off.

Should imagine they do quite nicely as they sleep most nights, just as well really otherwise they wouldn’t be able to do their 2nd jobs.


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[Blues Rock DJ]

stay awake !!

 

[vegster]

How do you think firefighters cope? Two days on, two nights on, and four off.

I wouldn't recommend it. Sounds ridiculous. Bear in mind this, In winter do you find you want to sleep more and that getting out of bad at 7am in December is hard ? Then, in summer you wake up about 5am and feel full of beans ? that's your body's natural rhythm.. no point being awake when its dark but every need to be awake when its light go against those circadian rhythms at your peril .

 

[AmexRuislip]

I wouldn't recommend it. Sounds ridiculous. Bear in mind this, In winter do you find you want to sleep more and that getting out of bad at 7am in December is hard ? Then, in summer you wake up about 5am and feel full of beans ? that's your body's natural rhythm.. no point being awake when its dark but every need to be awake when its light go against those circadian rhythms at your peril .

This.
I work a rolling shift pattern, consisting of 2 nights, 2 off, 3 days, 2 off, 2 nights, 3 off, 2 days, 2 off, 3 nights and so on......

 

[Notters]

Should imagine they do quite nicely as they sleep most nights, just as well really otherwise they wouldn’t be able to do their 2nd jobs.


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Meeeeeow

 

[banjo]

A mate did rolling nights 4 on 4 off, damned near killed him physically over the years. Get out of there as soon as possible, you are messing up all your biorhythms which is not good.

I bloody love it. 4 days off every week, plus 26 days holiday a year. Never feels like I’m working.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I eat all night when I do night shifts - big sandwich when I get in at 2300hrs, fruit, loads of (sugar-free) muesli and assorted other crap through the small hours, one last bowl of muesli at 5am, finish work 7am, asleep around 0830, up around 1pm for lunch, then dinner at usual time. I'm lucky that I don't really put on weight, plus cycling 9 or so miles to work and the same back has to be factored in.

 

[looney]

Fixed shifts or rotations?

The latter can play havok with your bodies Circadian Rhythm and be a major health risk. Cardiovascular problems, Diabetes, possible obesete etc...There is tons of stuff on it online.

https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/features/shift-work#1

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/night-shift-type-2-diabetes/

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I bloody love it. 4 days off every week, plus 26 days holiday a year. Never feels like I’m working.

Agree, feels like you're almost never at work. The rat race is for other people, certainly not for me.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I eat all night when I do night shifts - big sandwich when I get in at 2300hrs, fruit, loads of (sugar-free) muesli and assorted other crap through the small hours, one last bowl of muesli at 5am, finish work 7am, asleep around 0830, up around 1pm for lunch, then dinner at usual time. I'm lucky that I don't really put on weight, plus cycling 9 or so miles to work and the same back has to be factored in.

That's called grazing