Nutrition
Post Shift Meal Window
A post shift meal window is a modest protein-forward meal within ninety minutes of clock-out—light enough for sleep, substantial enough to close the shift fuel gap.
A post shift meal window is the sixty-to-ninety-minute span after clock-out when you eat a modest protein-forward plate before wind-down and sleep—not a drive-through feast that lands on the pillow. Keep fat moderate and volume smaller than your pre-shift anchor so reflux and heat do not delay sleep onset.
Hydrate but taper large fluids thirty minutes before bed. The window stays fixed even when overtime runs long; shift the meal earlier, not larger.
Common questions
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Should you eat immediately after every shift?
If you are hungry, yes—a modest plate beats starving into sleep. If you ate heavily mid-shift, a smaller protein snack may be enough; match volume to hunger, not habit alone.
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