im a nurse and work midnights. i eat right and exercise, but find since midnites, i have a bigger belly.?

Question

can anyone relate??

Answer 1

One simple thing is that allot of people have Syndrome X and they accumulate fat in wrong places belly. Thins that help are Chromium Picolinate Vanadium Ginostema pentafilium alpha lipoic acid GLA DHEA actually anything that will make you re body more sensitive to insulin will solve the problem low carbohydrate diet no sugar or rice pastas and breads In the prescription area Glucophage even if are not a diabetic this medicine works great but is not approve for this purpose but some doctors will prescribe it anyway

Answer 2

Have you never learned of the 3rd shift/night shift/graveyard shift or whatever else people want to call it, thing. This is actually pretty normal if I am not mistaken. You're body doesn't exactly adjust to working those hours. People think it does and since you do the same things in a sense but at different hours they think you would be adjusted. They have found in studies though that that is not how it works. As to the weight I would be happy to blame it on my working at night but I don't have great eating habits either so can't really say if that is my problem.

Answer 3

Homeopathic treatment to loose excessive fat and weight :-
The safest and sure fire way to loose weight and excessive fat is PHYTOLACCA BERRY Q(Mother Tincture) 20 drops thrice a day in a sip of water half hour before or after meals will start showing results in 30 to 45 days of regular use and will cure flabby or sagging tummy and will make your skin look fresher and tighter and has no side effects and has no complications whatsoever ! Avoid taking Chocolates Coffee Mints and Red Meat while taking homeopathic medicine.
You can get homeopathic medicines from Major Herbal Shops and Homeopathic Stores and they are quite inexpensive.
Take Care and God Bless !

Answer 4

I can totally relate, I went on midnites for a years and gained 10 lbs, so when this happened to me I did some research heres some valuble help if you'd like it.

The weight gain is caused by your normal body functions confusion of your body functioning during the hours your body was made to rest (controlled by melatonin production in the brain, in people who do not naturally have a good balance or people over 50, they use sheeps eye extract containing melatonin to re-align normal sleep patterns). All metabolic processes slow down at night due to this heightened production of melatonin which is brought on by the setting of the sun, melatonin dispersal is activated by light sensing filters in the eye at dusk. So automatically whatever you eat will not be digested and burned at the same rate it would, had your body been in gear to work.
To counter act this you have to re-set your body clock if you will. After a quick visit to my docs office (make sure you see a physician, I wouldn't recommend doing this without a consultation first), I started to take a metabolic booster (aka the loathed caffine pill,...hehehe) when I got up to go to work at approximately 7 p.m., and approximately an hour before I went to bed I would take a sleeping pill (because as another counter reaction it's harder for your body to enter good REM sleep when working these hours, which results in poorer sleep quality, and trust me mental sludge, hehehe). After approximately a month on a regimen I slowly decreased my doses with my doctors approval until my body was working justas fine tuned as night as it once did by day,...ofcourse once I moved back to days I had to do it all over again, but it was worth it, I lost the weight and showed up to work more refreshed and willing to be there.

Hope this does some good.

Dora

Answer 5

I think our digestive tracts are on a circadian rhythm and when you eat late at night, and so maybe the food sits in our stomach and duodenum longer before it starts to move later on in the day. You might try taking digestive enzymes to see if this helps.

Answer 6

Sounds like you're body may reacting to the stress of the shift-change by releasing more cortisol and, therefore, contributing to the isolated "belly fat".

Answer 7

that's because you sit on your butt more at work working midnights then you would working days....i also work the graveyard shift and yes I put on a few extra unwanted pounds myself....and it's all due to less activity

Answer 8

Your metabolism is going through changes.

Answer 9

Sex. Sex will flatten it if you practice it religiously!!!