TheOtherVillainess
Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter.....
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I actually tried South Beach..and lasted exactly 2 days. IF I had a job where I was allowed frequent breaks for snacks,etc. that might actually work. BUT the job I have now is 'you get a break six and a half hours into an eight hour shift IF you are damn lucky and the mgr likes you and it's slow' type thing. The store mgr doesn't even like for us to take BATHROOM breaks.
If you ask for a break to eat, they look at you like you are crazy and there is NO way for me to sneak into the back,scarf something down and run back out in the front.We aren't allowed in the back unless we are told to retrieve a specific item (fill the ice bucket, for example),told to go on break/bathroom trip or we are about to clock out. That's it. IF you are caught in the back by the store mgr without a reason for being back there, you are severely reprimanded. We cannot keep food,etc out front due to health code violations.
Even when I was pregnant last year with DS and had a bloody DR"S NOTE that said I was to be allowed to eat every so often (15 min break every 2 hrs, 30 min break every 4 hrs), they didn't like giving me breaks and twice I passed out from a combination of extreme hunger,thirst and exhaustion brought on by working so much and the pregnancy.
So SBD or Atkins or something a bit more structured wouldn't work,although I wish it would.
By the time I get home from work, I'm so tired all I can do is eat, feed/change/bathe DS and put him down before I collapse on the couch or in bed and fall asleep.
*ETA--I actually don't eat that much unless I'm depressed. I do admit to being a carb addict,though. I cannot give up my carbs..I'm sorry. I like my pasta, bread and cereal WAY too much to give them up. I don't eat more than a normal person and I have been trying to cut my portions in half lately.*
TOV
If you ask for a break to eat, they look at you like you are crazy and there is NO way for me to sneak into the back,scarf something down and run back out in the front.We aren't allowed in the back unless we are told to retrieve a specific item (fill the ice bucket, for example),told to go on break/bathroom trip or we are about to clock out. That's it. IF you are caught in the back by the store mgr without a reason for being back there, you are severely reprimanded. We cannot keep food,etc out front due to health code violations.
Even when I was pregnant last year with DS and had a bloody DR"S NOTE that said I was to be allowed to eat every so often (15 min break every 2 hrs, 30 min break every 4 hrs), they didn't like giving me breaks and twice I passed out from a combination of extreme hunger,thirst and exhaustion brought on by working so much and the pregnancy.
So SBD or Atkins or something a bit more structured wouldn't work,although I wish it would.
By the time I get home from work, I'm so tired all I can do is eat, feed/change/bathe DS and put him down before I collapse on the couch or in bed and fall asleep.*ETA--I actually don't eat that much unless I'm depressed. I do admit to being a carb addict,though. I cannot give up my carbs..I'm sorry. I like my pasta, bread and cereal WAY too much to give them up. I don't eat more than a normal person and I have been trying to cut my portions in half lately.*
TOV
