I work full time at Walmart and the shifts are 100% obscene! My shift start times and length vary daily; no week is the same as the previous or the next. Even off days change every week. I can have as little as a single off day in a week or as many as 3 consecutive. For instance today and tomorrow are off days, following shifts on 9 of the preceding 10 days. This, of course, has wreaked total havoc on my eating schedule.
So what I’ve done is adapt as well as I could. I like starting the day with my big Bubba mug of cold brewed keto coffee, which takes about half an hour to prepare and requires my blender. On the mornings when I have to start too early to do that, I have a ‘7/11 mix’ of whipping cream and Coffee Booster Collagen I can just pour into my ‘away mug’ of 7/11 coffee and stir. Since this mix contains far fewer calories than my normal keto coffee, I usually add a couple of low carb pepperoni sticks (McSeeney’s, 1g carb per 40g stick).
I like to have my primary meal around noonish but on days when I’m at work during that time I have a couple of ‘away meals’ that require zero prep. The main one is simply a mix of walnuts and bacon bits, the secondary one consists of less walnuts/bacon and 2 or 3 McSeeney’s pepperoni sticks. I also usually take a ‘keto milk’ mix consisting of whipping cream and Coffee Booster Collagen and just add water at work. Or if my shift ends at 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon, I’ll take my ‘7/11 mix’ and buy a coffee at the instore McDonald’s.
If the shift is such that I get home early enough, I’ll have my primary meal around 6-7 pm.
My daily calorie target is 2800 and often times when I work a late shift and get home after 9 or 10pm, and sometimes not until midnight!, if I’m more than a couple hundred short of my daily target I’ll eat something before going to bed. This will generally be a mix of whipping cream and casein or bone broth. I do this because if I don’t eat my daily target for a few days in a row I lose weight and I do not want to lose weight since I’m already quite thin with a fat% of 14%-15%.
Surprisingly enough, my body doesn’t seem to object very much to all this variation in eating times and amounts. Although I have to admit I am really tired after several days of it!