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Originally Posted by spiderdust
I have a pretty active job and worry about getting ill if I don't consume anything but water or black coffee from the time I get up until I get home from work around lunchtime.
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I want to address just this line.
Hi! I'm Literate Griffin, and I'm (at 50) an Amazon warehouse worker. I work 10-hour shifts, and I've been at the job over a year... before which I was LC, but pretty much sedentary.
When I first started working, just 5-hour shifts, I was ravenous when I got off work. There was no limit to the amount I could eat. My 13-year-old daughter said, "You need to make fat-bombs", and she was right. Literally ate 3 or 4, and that was it. No more "winter-bear" syndrome when I got off work. Not 3 or 4 per day... just 3 or 4, and it fixed the issue.
When I went full-time, I'd been working there 4 months, my body had more-or-less adjusted to the workload, but now I had breaks & lunch. I packed lunch & snacks, and ate at each of my 3 breaks.
Thing is? Eventually some of that turned out to be "learned hunger". Because as I re-introduced IF (something I'd done before I started the warehouse job), I found that some days, if I didn't have anything in the house to pack for lunch? I could literally get through a physically demanding 10-hour shift on 2 large Slim-Jims. (They're sold in or break area.... about the only thing they have I can eat.)
My advice, coming from my experience? Experiment. Skip eating on your first break & see how you feel. If you're starving by "lunch" (which, for me means 8am), then eat your lunch and your "first-break" food. Then see how you feel by last break... do you
need to eat, or can you wait until you get off?
Have the food with you. But see how you do, paring down. With your job/schedule, it might be hard to follow the specific advice meant for people who don't wake up until you've been at work several hours. ("Don't eat before noon.", for example.... Yeah, I've been up for over 12 hours by then, have walked around 9 miles & am looking at going to bed in a couple hours!) But you can probably manage a (modified to your schedule) version better than you think, if you baby-step it.