Night Shift
Weigh Day #6
Night shift blues! Another cracking week and building on the success of Weigh Day #5. How did I cope with a mammoth 12-hour shift?
Weight – 130.05 Kilograms, 20.47 Stone, 286.71 Pounds
Weekly Weight Loss – 1.5 Kilograms, 3.3 Pounds
Total Weight Loss – 7.65 Kilograms, 1.2 Stone, 16.86 Pounds
BMI – 40 (Obese), Total BMI Loss – 2.4
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Night shift on a Saturday can be very tricky. Occasionally I work the weekend night shift and it’s very tricky. Every time I see the words night and shift, I cannot but sing the popular 1985 hit of the same name by a Lionel Richie-less Commodores. What a classic! In case you don’t know or have forgotten, it goes like this…
Night Shift Effect
Lengthy Shift
Another good week. And from now on not the sight of my ugly feet just the weight! That’s what it’s all about, innit? Whilst I didn’t exactly stick with my under 2000 calories plan, I never went over 2500 calories on any day. A kilo and a half. Bloody marvellous! I didn’t expect to lose that much. That’s losing weight for you, funny old game. There will be weeks where I don’t lose much and I’ll have to deal with them accordingly. This is a long game. I’m beginning to feel the benefits but also realizing I have a heck of a long way to go. I have, bar Sunday, stuck rigidly to three meals a day and learnt some new things about myself along the way.
Larice lost 900 grams as well so all in all a good week in our humble abode! This week has been challenging work-wise as Christmas pressure kicks in. I was amazed and surprised how I didn’t crack after some very taxing days at work! This is a measure of where I’ve come! Speaking of work, this is where I type from as I am on the ‘graveyard’ weekend night shift for a bit of overtime. After a frantic start to my 12-hour stint, things have calmed down a bit! I may not be a postman trudging the streets any more but in my current office-based role for Royal Mail, the workload is still immense this time of year!
Beware Of The Biscuit!
A Weakness
Despite bringing in food, I’ve already munched on a heap of biscuits and eaten a barely edible jam doughnut! I think it was psychological. I just grabbed them as I sank a coffee. Working this shift is always a challenge! After eating that and one of the two meals I brought in, I feel full and satisfied for now! Later on, ate more biscuits and another doughnut. Not ideal but the night shift does that kind of thing to you!
Busy Life
Rushing Around
It’s been one of those rushing about like a blue-arsed fly kind of mornings. I left HQ to take the girls to Wythenshawe, ten miles away, took Bowie for a wander around some very nice streets and found a small park where he merrily chased his toy. By the time we drove back, the Manchester traffic was getting heavy as the beast had awoken!
Afterwards, we did some shopping, dropped Bowie at HQ, did some more shopping, dropped Juliana off at HQ and did more shopping! Ended up being out for some three hours! Ate some leftover chilli which satisfied. Had a kip this afternoon, listened to Cambridge United thump Fleetwood Town 4-0 in the FA Cup and before I knew it, I was at work after grappling with more traffic! Phew! No wonder I ate those biscuits! Still, I got some 5000 steps in and Bowie had a fantastic little adventure!
This is exactly the sort of situation where food addicts can be most vulnerable, so I did well considering I never had breakfast. I think the biscuits were a knock-on effect! I must say, I didn’t enjoy them at all, such is the journey I’ve made so far. The doughnuts were even worse!
The Gruelling Night Shift
Dealing With Setbacks
As I always write, you will have setbacks along the way and this feels like it could be a possible setback. How you deal with them is important. Despite plunging a fair bit of sugar into my gob, I don’t feel any guilt or remorse. It happens and it will happen. All I know is I am making the right strides to lose weight. Christmas and all its many temptations are around the corner. The decorations went up today. Tis the season to be jolly and all that! A load of old crap in general but I’m not a complete Christmas grouch! The commercialization though spoils the season immensely.
I always have trouble sleeping during the day when on the night shift, especially as I don’t normally work such unholy hours. I just got to get through and assess things on Monday. I’ve gone into this week thinking I may not lose too much and any loss will be a bonus. The next few weeks will be challenging, but as long as I maintain momentum, I’ll be happy. This is the whole point of weigh day and keeping tabs on weight week after week. As I well know, it’s so easy to let yourself go.
Sunday Update
Computer Said No
The computer wasn’t letting me into wordpress.org on the long overnight so I eventually gave up the ghost! As predicted, was a difficult morning trying to sleep, I didn’t finish till 6 AM. This is the knock-on effect of such an epic night shift! I do feel like a day off proceedings, dusting myself down and cracking on tomorrow. Rome wasn’t built in a day! At the time of writing, I really couldn’t say! My mood is all over the place and I want to get this blog finished as a matter of urgency!
Night Shift Summary
In Conclusion
No complaints after a very good week. Happy with this week’s weigh day. I’ve eaten three sturdy meals a day bar Sunday and Wednesday when I snuck an extra unplanned one in! Not sure how the next week will pan out though with work etc. I’m going in cautiously optimistic! I think given the excellent start, that will see me through but the overnight shift does mess up my body clock and I may well crave things I shouldn’t consume. But, given the good week I’ve had this week, I won’t dwell too much.
Onwards I march to next week’s Weigh Day! And yes I still got ‘night shift’ squirming around my head!
