is it ok to eat breakfast after coming off a night shift at 0700 and then going straight to bed?

Answer 1

you shouldn't go straight to bed, let the food digest for about half an hour then go to bed

Answer 2

yeah but its not called breakfast, its called a snack or bedtime meal, as the first thing you eat after you sleep- thats called breakfast.

The word breakfast comes from two words break- meaning to stop something, and fast- meaning to fast or not eat, this is what your body experiences while you sleep as it doesnt eat. When you wake up you have breakfast, you eat. Get it?

try if you do feel hungry, to eat or drink something mild- milky tea or cereal or plain buttered toast or something is fine, a hot curry for example is not. This will help you to rest, eating can also make you feel drousy as lots of the blood rushes to your stomach to deal with the food, which probably adds to the sleepy feeling caused by working anti social hours.

Its not so much the eating you want to worry about, its the jet-lag effect of shift work!

Answer 3

You're not giving your body a chance to digest. Granted, you'll still burn calories in your sleep, surely...but it's sort've like swimming...

you'd like to have at least an hour or two after a meal before you consider going to bed.

Some people who eat and then go to sleep can tend to experience strange dreams or vivid nightmares even.

Give yourself some time to digest before sleep. Don't bog your body down with all that food to process only to go into a mini-hibernation mode.

Answer 4

If it's something very light. I normally have my 'breakfast' at about 4 am then I have time to work it off before settling down for the day.

Answer 5

tiz better 2 eat after you have slept.
coz other wise u will find it harder to get 2 sleep -full of energy from ur food-n it will just upset ur body. u shouldn't reli eat b4 u sleep =)
however if ur very hungry, ad above stated w8 until ur foodz digested mayb half an1 hour, if ur extremely tired *lol*
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good nite *lol*
hope u've all had a gd weekend =)

Answer 6

would you go home after finishing at 6pm have your dinner and go to bed? its just whatever suits you i think. my hub does night shifts and i finish at 10 at night most nights, so our meal times are all to pot. but we both tend to stay up for a few hours after weve gotten in from work to relax

Answer 7

I hope so, 'cos that's what I do! Then you don't wake up hungry. I know you are supposed to wait an hour or something, but you need your sleep so do what works for you

Answer 8

yes why not..if you're hungry eat,yes it'll lie in your stomach so you won't burn it off but after a long nights work i think you're entitled to have some brekkie!

Answer 9

No, you have to sit up and watch TV for 6 hours first

Answer 10

Course you can, if you want too, have a shower have your brekkie and crash out, sounds good to me, sleep like a baby !