Part 2 – Diagnosing Your Night Shift Diet Problems
In Part Two of the Troubleshooting Your Night Shift Diet series, registered dietitian Kelsey Butler helps night shift workers identify and analyze their diet struggles. This session focuses on:
- Assessing diet pitfalls such as irregular meals, energy crashes, and food cravings
- Conducting a personal diet audit to identify patterns and struggles
- Connecting symptoms to root causes (e.g., workplace environment, stress, access to food)
- Evaluating habits and recognizing behaviors that impact nutrition
- Creating an action plan with realistic, achievable goals
This session provides a practical framework for pinpointing dietary issues and taking the first steps toward better nutrition while working night shifts.
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welcome to part two of our Troubleshooting Your Night Shift Diet series
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thank you for joining us on the next video here um for part two we are talking about diagnosing your diet problems
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so this is kind of going to be all about figuring out what um you really want to focus on as you improve your nutrition
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um and what is going to make a difference for you over time so just a little overview here
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um firstly we’re understanding that diet assessment
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um we’re thinking about those common issues that you might be facing whether it’s irregular meals
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unbalanced nutrition intake um maybe it’s just common patterns that you’re seeing
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you have really low energy or you have energy crashes at certain times of the day
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maybe you have um cravings that are occurring that are affecting um your nutrition or your weight
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or things like that um maybe you’re finding hey at this time during my shift I’m always craving coffee or chocolate
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or something like that um that’s something that we can target and work on
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um ask yourself do these dietary issues affect your health or your job performance
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are you feeling too low of energy um to really get into your work
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or maybe um you’re finding that hey I went to the doctor’s office I’m having high cholesterol
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or um you know other issues high blood pressure things like that where you know diet really plays a big part
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so thinking about that diet assessment we can then move on to your personal diet audit
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so this is how you can look at your day and really define your struggles
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um when and where do you usually see these struggles coming up
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are you throughout the day you know not eating consistently
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are you not having all meals every day um are you finding that you’re low in energy
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are you finding that um you know you’re having heartburn maybe
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um make a a list of these um from biggest struggle to smallest and let’s work through it
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so maybe it is hey number one I’m having um you know energy crashes at this time
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I want to focus on that first I’d also love to drink more water throughout the day
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you can put that towards the bottom so that we can focus on the biggest ones
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and then we can always you know weave on those little ones right through it too
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because they might help as well we also want to do a root cause analysis
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so this is connecting your symptoms to your causes linking your diet symptoms with underlying issues
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think about those environmental factors how your work setting may contribute to your dietary habits
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or is there a vending machine is there a bowl of candy in the in the lounge
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or um is there you know lack of access to food are you really busy
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um are you able to you know schedule time for your meals and your snacks
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um thinking about those factors and how you can affect or control them
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in a way to make sure that you’re making time for yourself and putting yourself first
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um think about stress social settings inconsistent schedules food access
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again kind of things we talked about of really making sure that you are taking a good look at everything around you
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um and what is really playing a role in the symptoms that you’re seeing
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lastly you want to do that habit evaluation
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okay what am I doing every day that maybe I want to work on
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I know that when uh you know for example
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I always want to stop at you know fast food on my way home from work
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or you know I’m always grazing on a bag of chips when I’m watching TV
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so thinking about those habits where you want to improve on can be really helpful
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and you don’t have to you know look at it with a judgmental eye
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this could be more of an observation of okay here’s what I’m doing throughout the day
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here’s what I’m doing most days do I want to change that
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do I you know where am I seeing the symptoms come up and how can we work on finding solutions there
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um lastly building your action plan
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so getting those solutions ready to go prioritizing those problems deciding which issues to tackle first
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continue on to part three of our series and thank you so much for watching
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