Intermittent Fasting For Night Shift – Doable?
Are you working on a night shift and trying to do intermittent fasting but don’t know how to start or even having skepticism about whether doing intermittent fasting while working the night shift can help you to lose weight?
I know your struggle as I have experience working the night shift at a government hospital in Malaysia.
The government hospital has three shifts – morning (7 am to 2 pm), evening (2 pm to 9 pm), and night (9 pm to 8 am).
Working in shifts, especially the night shift can disrupt your circadian rhythm and increase your risk of getting obesity, heart disease, hormone imbalance, and diabetes.
I know it does sound frustrating to those who are working night shift, no matter in which industry you are currently working.
I am here to bring hope and perhaps help you to understand that intermittent fasting may help to lose weight and minimize the risks of disrupting the circadian rhythm.
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How To Do Intermittent Fasting Schedule For Night Shift?
The challenge while working shifts are either you feel hungry or you don’t have time to eat at all. And if you have time to eat, there is no food available.
End up the most convenient food to get are from the vending machine. Highly processed-food.
And you might be wondering why you are putting on weight and unable to shed that extra pound easily.
The real culprit is hormone imbalance due to the interruption of the circadian rhythm. Which I will explain in a bit.
To answer the question of how to do intermittent fasting while working at night shift. First, you should know your options and choose the one that resonates most with you.
There are a lot of methods doing intermittent fasting but I will discuss only three that has proven to help most of my client and me.
What Is Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting is restricting the time you eat. Instead of focusing on what you eat, you pay attention to when you eat.
However, this doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t care about what you put into your body. You should. Because nutrient-dense food can fuel you and give benefits to your body both physically and mentally.
Recommended Methods of Intermittent Fasting For Night Shifts
As I mention, I will discuss three methods that have been proven successfully help to reduce weight:
Crescendo Fasting – If you are a beginner to intermittent fasting, I highly recommend you try to do crescendo fasting.
Instead of diving into long hours of fasting, you could try to do 10 to 12 to 14 hours of fasting before going to 16:8 intermittent fasting.
This will help to avoid shocking your body too much and imbalance your hormone drastically. As every type of body is not made equally, learning to understand your body cue can help you transition into intermittent fasting successfully.
5:2 Intermittent Fasting – This method needs you to fast two noncons