I submitted mine and hope it gets to read one day. Working three years in dietary at a nursing home was the most stressful and toxic environment for me since I have a heart condition. The residents made it worth working they're but most co-workers and CNA's treated me like garbage just for doing my job.
My diet was horrible when I worked in retail. I lived off vending machines and fast food. I also felt like complete garbage most of the time. After I left retail, I changed my entire diet to a healthier one and now I feel so much better and lost some weight. It was more of a psychological thing than anything else. I was depressed and tried to eat the pain of working in retail away. Yes, the food was terrible for my health, but it tasted good and at the time, I didn't care if I lived or died. Now that I left the negative and draining atmosphere of retail, I have a better outlook on life.
Been working retail (Wal-Mart) almost 7 months and I've noticed a significant amount of weight gain. It's mostly my fault with the food choices I make. But it's also the stress of the work environment.
I worked fast food for 4 years and it ruined my body... you'd think constantly being on your feet and running around would help but it does diddly squat.
Back when I was working at Walmart, my diet varied from day to day. I always had caffeine. On bad days (85% of the time) I would start my morning with an energy drink and a bag of whatever from the vending machine. Sometimes, if I was lucky, my mom would treat me to chick fil and Starbucks. For lunch, I tried to bring my own food, but sometimes I’d forget and just buy another energy drink and a couple of those flavored, high protein tuna things.
@@rommix0 I can validate this. I work for HD and the first two or three weeks of this pandemic the company would get us fast food daily. After two weeks of eating it my stomach was always upset and I was tired of it. Before then I'd only get fast food maybe one or twice every other month. It's all bad for you. The company isn't getting it for us now and I don't miss it.
I recently started eating healthy since, I’ve been working at Walmart. For breakfast I have plain ostmeal and a smoothie. Lunch: usually pbj or certain fruits, dinner is usually vegetables mixed together.
I fast on my work days. I just drink a cup of tea mind you i sit 70% of the time. It's still hard. For me not doing my workout routine is what's screwing me over. I'm sluggish, weak and I feel so out of shape.
Oh, you talking about being the "water boy" reminded me of a Chinese restaurant by my house that closed last mothers day after 30 years of being open, and I really miss it. It was called China Dynasty. The owners and staff were cool, and thankfully they were not anal about refilling my water cup every second. I miss there General Tso's chicken with fried rice. I still think their fried rice was the best.
When I worked Walmart 16 years ago we had food court , but I would go to grocery section and buy my lunch with employee discount ... If I worked their now I'd be in heaven , because I love making very healthy food without prep and I'm always shopping at Walmart.. I lost over 210 pounds
Back when I worked at gamestop, it was located right in the middle of the mall. So I had all the choices in the world all around me, my go to was subway for the same reasons you listed. It's cheap, filling, and not absolute garbage for you. I would also have chipotle often, chipotle is by far my favorite place to get food from. And whenever I was feeling a burger, there was a really good local burger business located in the mall and so I would go there, plus i got 10% off most food places at the mall for being an employee. Was pretty great
Oh, talking about the microwave reminded me: The people who honestly do not clean up their own shit after spewing that shit in the microwave - imagine how their kitchen looks in their own home? Ick!
My old job at a country club used every scrap left over from cooking and the buffets and mixed it together for employee meal. Tased like trash but sometimes we got fries. My new job won't even let us eat accidental meals and won't let us bring anything for lunch. We can't have cups and I just did my first week of 9hr shifts with no meal every day
Yo, I always wanted to suggest this video idea: Talk about the funny parts of retail. Just downright hilarious people, experiences, jokes that came about from working at these places, etc. Not specifically a good moments video, just FUNNY moments! Hopefully you can do it!
I work ems and it's the same situation. Being on the road all the time forces you to either bring your own lunch or get food out on the road whether it's a deli sandwich or fast food. I gained a ridiculous amount of weight in 4 years from all the fast food I've eaten on the road and it's a terrible situation
I work construction. At nights 11 to 730. Were supposed to go from 11 to 2 am take a 20 mn break then at 5am take a 30 then work till 705 clean up and get out at 730 am. Since were working around the public and have a time limit we push through from 11pm to 5 am n take one long ass break come back at 6 and then do whateve we can from 6 to 705. We prefer that cuz time flies if you're busy, we get a long ass break we can eat n sleep if we want and when its over we only have a little over an hour left.
It can go both ways really, what I would do was simply eat a meal before work while completely skipping breakfast. Sometimes after work I would end up just simply eating plain cheerios with almond milk; never gained any weight and was incredibly happy with 145 pounds at 5'9 - a weight I still have to this day. If you let your urges dictate your diet you will most likely balloon up till 200 plus pounds. It's all a matter of containing a strong mind.
I’ve found that I eat less now than I did before. I never ate breakfast, but now I might just have my “lunch” at work and that’s it. I weigh at least 15 pounds more than I did before working retail, but am still skinnier than average. I think my metabolism changed because I did gain weight with less food.
It's awful because you get 30 minutes, so you need something to be able to shove in the microwave and eat within 30 minutes. If you're lucky you are allowed to leave the building for 30 minutes so you get what you can get fast. Or you get stuck on a job with paid lunch so you could be called off your break if it gets crazy, so again, something fast you can whip up.
Yeah all I ever eat anymore is McDonalds and chips/beef jerky at my store, then frozen pizza when I'm at home. I wanna get passed this some day but I make like nothing.
Up at walmart, I'd eat the 88 cent frozen pot pies, the 1.24 banquet frozen diners, those dollar burritos by the produce, the marked down donuts, or just like a whole box of great value pop tarts or the cheap can of raviolis right up out the can
6:39 Yeah it’s annoying, at least to me to have my drink refill every time. I actually don’t drink more than 1 glass and that’s it, no need refill. Who else is like this?
I fast at work honestly, and if I absolutely have to, I eat a banana and an Aloe vera drink. Also, every In And Out has an invisible energy field around that "shitifies" all their food if you go too far from the establishment.
Eatting subway and frozen dinners for $4 each yet you can't afford to bring your own fruits/sandwiches for like $10 a week? Eatting healthy isn't that hard, and cheaper than fast food
Well let's see Taco bell 5 days a week with the occasional pasta from the in-store restaurant and like 3-5 cans of coffee and 1 mountain dew Baja blast a day.
With chinese food its a gamble, the really good spots are worth going in the hood for but its either Beijing quality or seems like its made of cat and dog
bro another horrible food topic is what the average consumer buys. as a cashier u see people spend so much money on frozen foods and candies and cookies, but very little money on meats, dairy and produce. sometimes as a cashier im horrified by other peoples diets
omg an HOUR for lunch?? I worked in department stores for five years, in the beginning we had 45 minute lunch breaks which was great, but after three years they cut it down to half an hour which started the moment we left the counter. I worked at the ground floor, the lunch area was at the fourth floor. Spent 7-10 minutes in total just moving through the customers, up the escalators. Then 20 minutes to heat the food, eat and sit down and calm down. Right? It was hell. It’s not enough time at all. It’s impossible to actually have a BREAK
as someone who worked retail AND only had a 30 minute lunch, trust me. be thankful for your 1 hour. with 30 minutes, you can't really DO anything. yeah you can rest and eat, but if you need to do anything that requires you to leave the property, good luck. renew your license? yeah right. pay a town utility bill that refuses to get with the times and insists you visit them personally? nope. do laundry (if you use a laundromat). nah. even eating can suck if you get stuck in a line for 20 minutes.
I work in a retail pharmacy. No breaks, 30 minute lunch is more like 27 minutes when you account for not being able to get clocked out on time due to the inevitable last minute person...I've trained myself to go 10 to 11 hours without even using the bathroom cause there is no time...
I work Garden Center man, been doing it all by myself for 6 months now. With this new team system we have I'm doing 5 times the work I used too with half the time. It's a nightmare.
Well ofcourse we would have the worst diet in the world, we work the longest hours and not always able to make something for the next day, most of us do many close/open and we have less then 30-45 mins to really eat or less. Sadly many would be like oh it’s cuz retail workers are lazy, no that’s not the case most times we just don’t have time after working 8-10 hours or more. Then drive home and then crash cuz we have work less then 6-8 hours later so to all the people who work like 9-5 and then have time to make food you have that time. One other thing is even tho we are working hard we are working for peanuts as well.
I'm so glad you're discussing this a lot of people at my job (Best Buy) are overweight and have this habit of always buying monster energy drinks just to keep them active during the hard day ahead of them
Not just retail employees, but anyone who works in a supermarket in general, our low wages can't afford us the more healthier and expensive options. I went from 190 to 220 Ibs in just a few months.
I currently weigh 210 lbs and I'm 5'8" and I'm 22. Thanks to these videos, I've been jogging 30 minutes a day each morning, and sticking to healthier foods from home. I plan on leaving retail soon. And when I do, I'm getting back into shape.
@@LeftytheGansterGremlin Good on you 👍 I left my job months ago and started working out again to and now I'm in the process of joining the military since they provide better opportunities than the workforce
Went from 250 (6'2 and I packed away muscle due to constantly walking and biking everywhere) to almost 290 or so after 4 years of working in fast food.
Bit of advice for my fellow wage slaves: if your community has "ethnic" markets shop there! My local go to is a Vietnamese market where I can stock up on fresh noodles (three servings for $1.50 and they cook in less than ten seconds), fresh tofu for a buck, all kinds of decent ramen (just check the nutritional info), frozen dumplings, massive bags of rice, cheap fresh produce, and more spices than you can shake a stick at. I also go to a Mexican chain store that has great prices. Bagged salads are also a go to for me, add a can of tuna or whatever canned meat is on sale. Meal's less than $5. Sad to say, I still eat a lot of 3 for a dollar frozen burritos and junk from the dollar store (though they do have spicy pickles and snack packs of dried fruit so it's not a total wash). Great video, as usual. Keep on keepin' on!
Finally someone else that hates florescent lighting. I mention it to others and they dont understand. It burns your eyes and makes you feel like a zombie living in the twilight zone. You should do an episode about florescent lighting and what studies show about how bad it is.
I currently work in retail 12 hours a day plus online college I’m literally living on energy drinks and lost a big amount since my three weeks working 175ish now 160
Retail you can't eat healthy. Not when they watch the clocks like vultures and criticize you when you're a minute late. And same, I would also force feed myself because you'd realize you probably wouldn't be able to eat for another 2-4 hours. When I worked in a restaurant, oh boy, if I did have enough time for a break and food I only ate there. Mostly really bad french toast (it's like 1800 calories fyi), and then kid's grilled when I got off in the afternoon. Sometimes I'd walk next door to the fried chicken place, also bad. Yeah pretty sure I gained 5-10 lbs working there for 2 years.
When I worked at Walmart my lunch breaks (mostly out of laziness) was a mix of Subway and Walmart's deli plates even though I was also in a location full of actual healthy choices.
I don’t work in fast food like McDonald’s ect, but i do work in a restaurant. I’ve seen ex coworkers come in looking skinnier and much for healthier and happier than when they worked there....
As someone who goes there occasionally it depends on your area. I’ve noticed small towns usually have good stuff. Found penguin wars for PS4 at a GameStop in a small town for $20 and the game new on eBay goes for $60-$80. Best Buy is also a good place to check for obscure stuff as well
I worked at Game Crazy. The most rare thing I ever saw come in was Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow brand fucking new. That shit was like out of print or something because you couldn’t find it anywhere for retail price. I snapped that shit up. I worked at an independently-owned game store and we sold any era. So we had rare shit all the time. We had an Xbox dev kit. I think a GameCube dev kit. All kinds of rare games. We had an Atari Lynx. We had a Phillips CD. All kinds of shit I’ve never seen before.
I can relate to the whole wanting to take a 30 minute lunch vs an hour. I even tried proposing that I skip lunch and breaks and leave an hour and a 1/2 earlier lol. They said no of course due to legal stuff, but my diet consisted of candy bars and sodas every lunch break because I would take a drive for an hour. I worked overnights so it was nice and quiet. Burned a lot of gas and the walk back inside from such a relaxing drive always sucked but I needed to get out of wal Mart any way I could.
My sister works at a really successful insurance company. They cater lunch to their entire staff 3x a week. They have so many left overs at the end of the day that she brings it home for all of us. We barely have to cook dinner anymore!
@@xdandychiggins it wasn’t just regular old take off. It was food brought in from some of the top restaurants in Austin. So we got to sample a lot of good stuff for a bit. Sadly due to COVID my sis got fired and was unemployed for over a year. Gladly she found a new position recently. I already work from home.
@@BOG0690 Yah it was pretty cool while it lasted. They were some of the best restaurants in Austin that this company would get. Saved us a lot of money on groceries.
Lunch diet while working at PetSmart consisted of a 20 oz Coke and a Twix bar purchased from the Staples next door. Never spent breaks in the break room because one of the full time associates always heated up leftover octopus in the break room microwave so it always smell horrible in there all day.
I've been packing my own lunches since I was 10 and thankfully that carried over to my work life. Two pieces of fruit, museli bar, sandwich. Many people I work with buy a can of energy drink, a slice of cake and hot fries from the deli pretty much every day and I don't know how they can do it. The costs and health issues would stack up so much over time.
Every time I work at Walmart in morning shifts before I get to work I chug down a can of Red Bull to get that instant caffeine. Then I go to my local McDonald's and stop by for my coffee and either chicken biscuit or a sausage biscuit, then head to work. My lunch consisted of vending machine snacks and a energy drink. Then on my way home after work I'll stop by Little Caesars to get a hot n ready with a 1 liter Pepsi. Yeah pretty much my diet was very unhealthy and had been doing this for 2 years. If you love yourself please don't be like me or you will die.
I ate quite healthy when I worked retail, I survived off of oatmeal, beans, rice, lentils, frozen broccoli and bananas, It’s healthy for you and most importantly it’s cheap (there is a reason those foods are the staple of the third world). My boss even commented that I ate healthier than any employee she ever had, even she knew I was the exception not the rule. Currently my diet is way worse now that I’m working my much better paying manual labour job than when I was in retail.
Retail workers also eat late at night! When I used to close the store I wouldn’t get home til about 11:30. And I ate because I was hungry. And then I would go to sleep soon after. Bad habit!!!
For sure, i hit my hardest reality when i hit 213 in 2016 at walmart. Once i left in october and by after xmas, i lost that first 13lbs just walking around campus and eating healthier. Then i took two gym classes, soccer & swimming, and by the end of the semester for my trip to japan i was down to 161. It showed me the less stressed and the more active i was the better i felt. It felt great to get it off and your mental state is so much clearer.
Man I remember being 220 6’2 mostly muscle because I was a athlete in school but working at Walmart working 38 hours a week while in freshman year of college I blew the fuck up to 260 in 1 year shit ruined my self-esteem.
I work overnights (1030pm to 7am sunday through friday, yes its 6 days a week) however my last day is in 2 days. Food/diet is one of the hardest things for everyone at this warehouse. We get off Saturday morning and go back sunday night so there's no time to recover from work so you're just too exhausted. I personally started eating like complete dog shit and thus I started to feel like dog shit. To change I started bringing fruits and (some) vegetables and would (if need be) dip it in peanut butter. Pre prep food for the week too like chicken and rice. Stopped drinking soda and energy drinks and started drinking water. For awhile I added mio to avoid caffeine withdrawal symptoms (like headaches and tiredness) and slowly used it less and less. If you wanna change your diet you gotta set time aside and just do it, stop making excuses. I haven't tried this but I know people who sign up for those things where they send you food for the week every week and they tend to like it, low maintenance and still healthier than what you're probably eating now. It's definitely a struggle but health really is important and it's easy to disregard it when you're working a shitty job but it'll catch up to you
Usually for my lunch when I was working retail it would just be some crappy microwave dinner or some chips or something like that. When I was working at fast-food, I would usually just get crap from there (at a discount, or often completely free) and holy s*** does it start to take a toll.
2:47 so you have never seen a high school lunch room public microwave? Legit, they had to replace the working one we had because it had a giant chocolate stain in the middle.
When I started working retail, I actually LOST weight (about 5 lbs) from walking/running around, heavy lifting. I know the feeling, you're too damn tired to cook and and on your feet all day long and walking round and round trying to make yourself useful and your sciatica is killing you. Some stores would have a subway. I'm so thankful for the nearby taco bell.
Thankfully working in the restaurant industry we typically get fed pretty well. Especially if you work at a privately owned, non-corporate restaurant. Most places I worked at we’d actually have “family meal” at the start of our shift. We’d get a really good salad an entree and basically whatever we wanted to drink (bottled water: sparkling or still), coffee/espresso/tea, or sodas. I actually miss those meals. As most of them were delicious! As they were made in house of course.
I’m not sure what it is that creates the feeling, but I also regularly just don’t want to eat. It’s not meal prep or any of that stuff (although I hate that too)- it’s just literally- I don’t feel like eating. I would 100% take a pill or drink a soylent or whatever to avoid eating.
I completely agree! I've replaced many many dinners with protein shakes filled with fruit and other things just to make sure I'm at least getting nutrients.
I used to own nothing but a microwave and a milkcrate because my landlord bumped rent on my studio appartment after a week from 300 to 650 a month, and minimum wage was only 7 dollars in my state, so my meals consisted of water filled noodle packets (no dishes) and water. i hate my life, I'm so poor still.
My diet really sucks when you work retail because you come home and your body is sore, you’re incredibly stressed out and you don’t have a lot of money or energy to go to the store and get something to actually cook because you know you’ll have to clean it afterwards
You are right on about the garbage we eat in retail. Keep loading videos I enjoy them so much especially about retail. You are so real and that means a lot. Love you
I used to meal prep chicken thighs/drumsticks, and spinach. It was like 4 meals for 6 bucks. Chicken with the skin still on it is really cheap and spinach sauteed in chicken fat makes it way better. I stopped cuz I usually only had time to cook in the morning, but wanted to sleep in 😴
when i worked in retail during my lunchtime i would go to the nearest dollar store and get a microwavable hamburger/ grilled chicken sandwich, or microwavable alfredo pasta. the sad thing is the microwave somehow managed to suck the flavor out of the food... i have no idea how that's even possible
When I worked at a restauranttI gained 33 pounds, then took about less than a year to lose weight... yea even if free food is offered don't do it all the time.
Oh yeah that's true there. I've worked at The Boathouse for almost a year now and I've only asked for food a few times. When it comes to left over catering food I'm all over that.
I worked at a dollar general for 6 months, hated every single second of it. I always closed and I’d buy a pack of swishers, a honey bun, whatever other bullshit snacks and candy I wanted & some sugary ass drink, go home smoke weed & eat myself to the point of sickness every single night, it wasn’t a good environment & during my breaks I ate exactly the same thing, glad I got out of that.
i have a gluten intolerance so i cant eat most of those cheap crap foods because it makes me rly sick. its a blessing and a curse. on one hand, im much healthier than i would be if i could eat fast food and shit like that. on the other hand, it eats up all my spending money. cant win. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I submitted mine and hope it gets to read one day. Working three years in dietary at a nursing home was the most stressful and toxic environment for me since I have a heart condition. The residents made it worth working they're but most co-workers and CNA's treated me like garbage just for doing my job.
ramen noodle are freeze dried
My diet was horrible when I worked in retail. I lived off vending machines and fast food. I also felt like complete garbage most of the time. After I left retail, I changed my entire diet to a healthier one and now I feel so much better and lost some weight.
It was more of a psychological thing than anything else. I was depressed and tried to eat the pain of working in retail away. Yes, the food was terrible for my health, but it tasted good and at the time, I didn't care if I lived or died. Now that I left the negative and draining atmosphere of retail, I have a better outlook on life.
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I relate to this so much, you're 100% on point about how it feels/tastes when you're mentally exhausted like that.
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I use to eat Wendy’s every night the worst I ever felt 😂
Been working retail (Wal-Mart) almost 7 months and I've noticed a significant amount of weight gain. It's mostly my fault with the food choices I make. But it's also the stress of the work environment.
Greg S what’s the job, I was a cart pushed until they played the schedule game
All positions at Walmart are extremely stressful
I worked fast food for 4 years and it ruined my body... you'd think constantly being on your feet and running around would help but it does diddly squat.
my blood pressure would skyrocket like 155/100
Opposite with me because I was cart pusher
Back when I was working at Walmart, my diet varied from day to day. I always had caffeine. On bad days (85% of the time) I would start my morning with an energy drink and a bag of whatever from the vending machine. Sometimes, if I was lucky, my mom would treat me to chick fil and Starbucks. For lunch, I tried to bring my own food, but sometimes I’d forget and just buy another energy drink and a couple of those flavored, high protein tuna things.
I used to get sick constantly while eating fast food every day
It's terrible stuff. Fast food is enough to give you indigestion and diarrhea.
Bro fuckin deadass
@@rommix0 I can validate this. I work for HD and the first two or three weeks of this pandemic the company would get us fast food daily. After two weeks of eating it my stomach was always upset and I was tired of it. Before then I'd only get fast food maybe one or twice every other month. It's all bad for you. The company isn't getting it for us now and I don't miss it.
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I recently started eating healthy since, I’ve been working at Walmart. For breakfast I have plain ostmeal and a smoothie. Lunch: usually pbj or certain fruits, dinner is usually vegetables mixed together.
its hard having a mcdonalds inside Walmart and smelling it and not eating it
Lard and it's scent can be pretty delicious to some.
Lol Macdonalds is shit
I fast on my work days. I just drink a cup of tea mind you i sit 70% of the time. It's still hard. For me not doing my workout routine is what's screwing me over. I'm sluggish, weak and I feel so out of shape.
Oh, you talking about being the "water boy" reminded me of a Chinese restaurant by my house that closed last mothers day after 30 years of being open, and I really miss it. It was called China Dynasty. The owners and staff were cool, and thankfully they were not anal about refilling my water cup every second. I miss there General Tso's chicken with fried rice. I still think their fried rice was the best.
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When I worked Walmart 16 years ago we had food court , but I would go to grocery section and buy my lunch with employee discount ... If I worked their now I'd be in heaven , because I love making very healthy food without prep and I'm always shopping at Walmart.. I lost over 210 pounds
Back when I worked at gamestop, it was located right in the middle of the mall. So I had all the choices in the world all around me, my go to was subway for the same reasons you listed. It's cheap, filling, and not absolute garbage for you. I would also have chipotle often, chipotle is by far my favorite place to get food from. And whenever I was feeling a burger, there was a really good local burger business located in the mall and so I would go there, plus i got 10% off most food places at the mall for being an employee. Was pretty great
Similar to working in an office. I try and have my main meal at lunchtime so I don't have to cook when I get in. Takeaway's are the only other option.
Oh, talking about the microwave reminded me: The people who honestly do not clean up their own shit after spewing that shit in the microwave - imagine how their kitchen looks in their own home? Ick!
My old job at a country club used every scrap left over from cooking and the buffets and mixed it together for employee meal. Tased like trash but sometimes we got fries. My new job won't even let us eat accidental meals and won't let us bring anything for lunch. We can't have cups and I just did my first week of 9hr shifts with no meal every day
I work in retail. IM jealous you get to do this now! Glad you got outta there :)
That's why working on your career is important, some people are stuck working retail their whole life and that's scary.
Yo, I always wanted to suggest this video idea: Talk about the funny parts of retail. Just downright hilarious people, experiences, jokes that came about from working at these places, etc. Not specifically a good moments video, just FUNNY moments! Hopefully you can do it!
I love that idea.
I work ems and it's the same situation. Being on the road all the time forces you to either bring your own lunch or get food out on the road whether it's a deli sandwich or fast food. I gained a ridiculous amount of weight in 4 years from all the fast food I've eaten on the road and it's a terrible situation
I work construction. At nights 11 to 730. Were supposed to go from 11 to 2 am take a 20 mn break then at 5am take a 30 then work till 705 clean up and get out at 730 am. Since were working around the public and have a time limit we push through from 11pm to 5 am n take one long ass break come back at 6 and then do whateve we can from 6 to 705. We prefer that cuz time flies if you're busy, we get a long ass break we can eat n sleep if we want and when its over we only have a little over an hour left.
Break 1 - Candy bar or bag of chips, Lunch - Energy drink & Deli Food , Break 2 - small snack or not hungry
It can go both ways really, what I would do was simply eat a meal before work while completely skipping breakfast. Sometimes after work I would end up just simply eating plain cheerios with almond milk; never gained any weight and was incredibly happy with 145 pounds at 5'9 - a weight I still have to this day. If you let your urges dictate your diet you will most likely balloon up till 200 plus pounds. It's all a matter of containing a strong mind.
I’ve found that I eat less now than I did before. I never ate breakfast, but now I might just have my “lunch” at work and that’s it. I weigh at least 15 pounds more than I did before working retail, but am still skinnier than average. I think my metabolism changed because I did gain weight with less food.
Yea I wouldn’t trust the microwave or the refrigerator
It's awful because you get 30 minutes, so you need something to be able to shove in the microwave and eat within 30 minutes. If you're lucky you are allowed to leave the building for 30 minutes so you get what you can get fast.
Or you get stuck on a job with paid lunch so you could be called off your break if it gets crazy, so again, something fast you can whip up.
Yeah all I ever eat anymore is McDonalds and chips/beef jerky at my store, then frozen pizza when I'm at home. I wanna get passed this some day but I make like nothing.
Nah I brought lunch everyday I worked retail we had a piece of shit break room but my coworkers cleaned up after themselves
Up at walmart, I'd eat the 88 cent frozen pot pies, the 1.24 banquet frozen diners, those dollar burritos by the produce, the marked down donuts, or just like a whole box of great value pop tarts or the cheap can of raviolis right up out the can
Nah! I bring the fridge with me. I eat all day long. I cook never take out. I hate all fast food! Disgusting.
6:39 Yeah it’s annoying, at least to me to have my drink refill every time. I actually don’t drink more than 1 glass and that’s it, no need refill. Who else is like this?
I fast at work honestly, and if I absolutely have to, I eat a banana and an Aloe vera drink.
Also, every In And Out has an invisible energy field around that "shitifies" all their food if you go too far from the establishment.
Sonic gives you a free meal too
I wish I could eat frozen meals....too much sodium. Ramen noodles with parmesian cheese is lower sodium.
Eatting subway and frozen dinners for $4 each yet you can't afford to bring your own fruits/sandwiches for like $10 a week? Eatting healthy isn't that hard, and cheaper than fast food
Never said I couldn't afford to make my own food, I said I was too lazy lol
Ate mcdonalds or panera every day i worked
Well let's see Taco bell 5 days a week with the occasional pasta from the in-store restaurant and like 3-5 cans of coffee and 1 mountain dew Baja blast a day.
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That lame hat is keeping King Eric from filming with you
He likes this hat; you're thinking of the sonic hat.
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With chinese food its a gamble, the really good spots are worth going in the hood for but its either Beijing quality or seems like its made of cat and dog
I just eat my feelings during my lunch break
Too relatable
Damn... This hits close to home.
Fml literally what I'm doing rn
SAME!!
The grocery staff here eats cigarettes on their breaks LOL
bro another horrible food topic is what the average consumer buys. as a cashier u see people spend so much money on frozen foods and candies and cookies, but very little money on meats, dairy and produce.
sometimes as a cashier im horrified by other peoples diets
Walmart is not a supermarket food store
I seen customers get more than 5 12 soda packs. No wonder why they couldn’t lose weight.
lmao the amount of ppl i see buying unhealthy frozen microwavable meals at target is staggering 😵
you really see this in online grocery as well. i’ve picked orders before that were entirely soda, energy drinks, and tons of candy and chips.
@@brenden8548 same lol
omg an HOUR for lunch?? I worked in department stores for five years, in the beginning we had 45 minute lunch breaks which was great, but after three years they cut it down to half an hour which started the moment we left the counter. I worked at the ground floor, the lunch area was at the fourth floor. Spent 7-10 minutes in total just moving through the customers, up the escalators. Then 20 minutes to heat the food, eat and sit down and calm down. Right? It was hell. It’s not enough time at all. It’s impossible to actually have a BREAK
That’s awful. Hopefully you’re working somewhere better and that job actually lets you have a break
In some more progressive states, an hour long break may be required by law. It sounds like he lives in California so that probably explains it.
Yo dude. I swear to god, some dude that looked exactly like you came to my work yesterday. I work at bestbuy.
Haha well that's because it was me
as someone who worked retail AND only had a 30 minute lunch, trust me. be thankful for your 1 hour.
with 30 minutes, you can't really DO anything.
yeah you can rest and eat, but if you need to do anything that requires you to leave the property, good luck.
renew your license? yeah right.
pay a town utility bill that refuses to get with the times and insists you visit them personally? nope.
do laundry (if you use a laundromat). nah.
even eating can suck if you get stuck in a line for 20 minutes.
Yeah I would have loved an hour break. Or at least 45 minutes
I work at a gas station and were supposed to get 30minutes. That's only if the store is completely dead and theres nothing to do.
I work in a retail pharmacy. No breaks, 30 minute lunch is more like 27 minutes when you account for not being able to get clocked out on time due to the inevitable last minute person...I've trained myself to go 10 to 11 hours without even using the bathroom cause there is no time...
Currently eating Baked Hot Cheetos with a sprite in my car for lunch. I work at Walmart and do the online grocery Pickup😂.
I work Garden Center man, been doing it all by myself for 6 months now. With this new team system we have I'm doing 5 times the work I used too with half the time. It's a nightmare.
This can also apply to us delivery drivers. It’s way too easy to stop at fast food places instead of bringing something or having something healthier.
I feel like police officers do this too. They sit in a car for the majority of the day so it would make sense just for the convenience.
Yep. I deliver for Amazon. You basically have to get fast food. It sucks.
@@412StepUp no you are not. prepare some bread with sausage and maybe some fruit or vegetable and you probably safe some money this way too.
@@TallyWackaTha2nd patrol duty
Well ofcourse we would have the worst diet in the world, we work the longest hours and not always able to make something for the next day, most of us do many close/open and we have less then 30-45 mins to really eat or less.
Sadly many would be like oh it’s cuz retail workers are lazy, no that’s not the case most times we just don’t have time after working 8-10 hours or more. Then drive home and then crash cuz we have work less then 6-8 hours later so to all the people who work like 9-5 and then have time to make food you have that time. One other thing is even tho we are working hard we are working for peanuts as well.
Lmao imagine getting payed with peanuts.
I'm so glad you're discussing this a lot of people at my job (Best Buy) are overweight and have this habit of always buying monster energy drinks just to keep them active during the hard day ahead of them
In asian restaurants its worse (lots of cocaine). Caffeine doesn't do the trick after a while.
That has to be nonsense Roasted toasted simply because cocaine is expensive and people working at Chinese restaurants probably can't afford it.
@@trolljones4386 i didnt say it was good coke
Edit: Also I have worked in a chinese restauraunt and a hibachi restaurant on 13 hour shifts so stfu
That's a good way to be dehydrated.
Not just retail employees, but anyone who works in a supermarket in general, our low wages can't afford us the more healthier and expensive options.
I went from 190 to 220 Ibs in just a few months.
Same here after 3 years at Walmart, may have sped up my colon cancer growth. Cancer free since 2018 and work at home with my wife now.
I currently weigh 210 lbs and I'm 5'8" and I'm 22. Thanks to these videos, I've been jogging 30 minutes a day each morning, and sticking to healthier foods from home.
I plan on leaving retail soon. And when I do, I'm getting back into shape.
@@LeftytheGansterGremlin Good on you 👍 I left my job months ago and started working out again to and now I'm in the process of joining the military since they provide better opportunities than the workforce
Went from 250 (6'2 and I packed away muscle due to constantly walking and biking everywhere) to almost 290 or so after 4 years of working in fast food.
Bit of advice for my fellow wage slaves: if your community has "ethnic" markets shop there! My local go to is a Vietnamese market where I can stock up on fresh noodles (three servings for $1.50 and they cook in less than ten seconds), fresh tofu for a buck, all kinds of decent ramen (just check the nutritional info), frozen dumplings, massive bags of rice, cheap fresh produce, and more spices than you can shake a stick at. I also go to a Mexican chain store that has great prices.
Bagged salads are also a go to for me, add a can of tuna or whatever canned meat is on sale. Meal's less than $5.
Sad to say, I still eat a lot of 3 for a dollar frozen burritos and junk from the dollar store (though they do have spicy pickles and snack packs of dried fruit so it's not a total wash).
Great video, as usual. Keep on keepin' on!
Nice tip, might try it myself.
As a former fat kid turned skinny take it from me when I say that single ingredient foods are key to improving your diet.
I'm trying to lose weight, so I'm curious as to single ingredient foods and wondering what they are.
Bear in mind, I'm a 22 year old male.
Nicolas Charron Bananas sweet potatoes beans kale carrots
@@MrTallandrew I eat Bannana's and Carrots a lot.
Haven't tried Sweet Potatoes.
Kale, meh.
But THANK YOU!
Chicken, eggs, oatmeal
@@sccgproductions Oh Damn, I LOVE Oatmeal! Thank you!
Finally someone else that hates florescent lighting. I mention it to others and they dont understand. It burns your eyes and makes you feel like a zombie living in the twilight zone.
You should do an episode about florescent lighting and what studies show about how bad it is.
Not a bad idea actually
YES, TERRIBLE
I currently work in retail 12 hours a day plus online college I’m literally living on energy drinks and lost a big amount since my three weeks working 175ish now 160
Retail you can't eat healthy. Not when they watch the clocks like vultures and criticize you when you're a minute late. And same, I would also force feed myself because you'd realize you probably wouldn't be able to eat for another 2-4 hours.
When I worked in a restaurant, oh boy, if I did have enough time for a break and food I only ate there. Mostly really bad french toast (it's like 1800 calories fyi), and then kid's grilled when I got off in the afternoon. Sometimes I'd walk next door to the fried chicken place, also bad. Yeah pretty sure I gained 5-10 lbs working there for 2 years.
10 lb in 2 years isnt too bad
When I worked at GS, I didn’t even eat. I just walked out of the store and sat in my car to get out of there for 30 minutes
When I worked at Walmart my lunch breaks (mostly out of laziness) was a mix of Subway and Walmart's deli plates even though I was also in a location full of actual healthy choices.
Diet is the hardest thing to change with getting healthier. Fast food is too convenient.
Also everything has sugar shoved into it. Even sliced white bread, which is already pure carbs, has added sugar.
It's bonkers :/
I don’t work in fast food like McDonald’s ect, but i do work in a restaurant. I’ve seen ex coworkers come in looking skinnier and much for healthier and happier than when they worked there....
As a game collector, I'm curious as to whether there were any uncommon games that showed up at gamestop when you worked there
As someone who goes there occasionally it depends on your area. I’ve noticed small towns usually have good stuff. Found penguin wars for PS4 at a GameStop in a small town for $20 and the game new on eBay goes for $60-$80. Best Buy is also a good place to check for obscure stuff as well
I worked at Game Crazy. The most rare thing I ever saw come in was Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow brand fucking new. That shit was like out of print or something because you couldn’t find it anywhere for retail price. I snapped that shit up.
I worked at an independently-owned game store and we sold any era. So we had rare shit all the time. We had an Xbox dev kit. I think a GameCube dev kit. All kinds of rare games. We had an Atari Lynx. We had a Phillips CD. All kinds of shit I’ve never seen before.
I can relate to the whole wanting to take a 30 minute lunch vs an hour. I even tried proposing that I skip lunch and breaks and leave an hour and a 1/2 earlier lol. They said no of course due to legal stuff, but my diet consisted of candy bars and sodas every lunch break because I would take a drive for an hour. I worked overnights so it was nice and quiet. Burned a lot of gas and the walk back inside from such a relaxing drive always sucked but I needed to get out of wal Mart any way I could.
Crockpots are cheap and a great way to meal prep a bunch of frozen chicken
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My sister works at a really successful insurance company. They cater lunch to their entire staff 3x a week. They have so many left overs at the end of the day that she brings it home for all of us. We barely have to cook dinner anymore!
not sure why you’re flexing about mooching off your sister’s work leftovers lmao
@@xdandychiggins it wasn’t just regular old take off. It was food brought in from some of the top restaurants in Austin. So we got to sample a lot of good stuff for a bit. Sadly due to COVID my sis got fired and was unemployed for over a year. Gladly she found a new position recently. I already work from home.
Sounds sweet honestly
@@BOG0690 Yah it was pretty cool while it lasted. They were some of the best restaurants in Austin that this company would get. Saved us a lot of money on groceries.
Lunch diet while working at PetSmart consisted of a 20 oz Coke and a Twix bar purchased from the Staples next door. Never spent breaks in the break room because one of the full time associates always heated up leftover octopus in the break room microwave so it always smell horrible in there all day.
I've been packing my own lunches since I was 10 and thankfully that carried over to my work life. Two pieces of fruit, museli bar, sandwich. Many people I work with buy a can of energy drink, a slice of cake and hot fries from the deli pretty much every day and I don't know how they can do it. The costs and health issues would stack up so much over time.
When I worked at retail, my lunch was 2 lunch-sized bags of chips or Chex-Mix and a Coke.
Every time I work at Walmart in morning shifts before I get to work I chug down a can of Red Bull to get that instant caffeine. Then I go to my local McDonald's and stop by for my coffee and either chicken biscuit or a sausage biscuit, then head to work. My lunch consisted of vending machine snacks and a energy drink. Then on my way home after work I'll stop by Little Caesars to get a hot n ready with a 1 liter Pepsi.
Yeah pretty much my diet was very unhealthy and had been doing this for 2 years. If you love yourself please don't be like me or you will die.
I ate quite healthy when I worked retail, I survived off of oatmeal, beans, rice, lentils, frozen broccoli and bananas, It’s healthy for you and most importantly it’s cheap (there is a reason those foods are the staple of the third world). My boss even commented that I ate healthier than any employee she ever had, even she knew I was the exception not the rule.
Currently my diet is way worse now that I’m working my much better paying manual labour job than when I was in retail.
boom. perfect diet.
Retail workers also eat late at night! When I used to close the store I wouldn’t get home til about 11:30. And I ate because I was hungry. And then I would go to sleep soon after. Bad habit!!!
For sure, i hit my hardest reality when i hit 213 in 2016 at walmart. Once i left in october and by after xmas, i lost that first 13lbs just walking around campus and eating healthier. Then i took two gym classes, soccer & swimming, and by the end of the semester for my trip to japan i was down to 161. It showed me the less stressed and the more active i was the better i felt. It felt great to get it off and your mental state is so much clearer.
Dispite working at Walmart for a year, the food I would eat didnt make me gain weight. It actually made me lose weight😳😳
What did you eat?
SoyIsBoi mainly hot pockets and a lot of water
Man I remember being 220 6’2 mostly muscle because I was a athlete in school but working at Walmart working 38 hours a week while in freshman year of college I blew the fuck up to 260 in 1 year shit ruined my self-esteem.
I also learned how bad instant ramen was when I looked at the nutritional facts and was shocked how it is so unhealthy
El1teFire nonsense, I eat it 3 types a day. The left side of my body aches....but I tough it out with anime.
That shits soo good though, gotta love MSG. I haven't had instant ramen in a while actually.
I work overnights (1030pm to 7am sunday through friday, yes its 6 days a week) however my last day is in 2 days. Food/diet is one of the hardest things for everyone at this warehouse. We get off Saturday morning and go back sunday night so there's no time to recover from work so you're just too exhausted. I personally started eating like complete dog shit and thus I started to feel like dog shit. To change I started bringing fruits and (some) vegetables and would (if need be) dip it in peanut butter. Pre prep food for the week too like chicken and rice. Stopped drinking soda and energy drinks and started drinking water. For awhile I added mio to avoid caffeine withdrawal symptoms (like headaches and tiredness) and slowly used it less and less. If you wanna change your diet you gotta set time aside and just do it, stop making excuses. I haven't tried this but I know people who sign up for those things where they send you food for the week every week and they tend to like it, low maintenance and still healthier than what you're probably eating now. It's definitely a struggle but health really is important and it's easy to disregard it when you're working a shitty job but it'll catch up to you
Something about you reminds me of Eric Foreman lol
Usually for my lunch when I was working retail it would just be some crappy microwave dinner or some chips or something like that. When I was working at fast-food, I would usually just get crap from there (at a discount, or often completely free) and holy s*** does it start to take a toll.
Current walmart employee and I often buy boyardee cheese ravioli for 98 cents a can. I feel this
I do that at Safeway but it is $1.59
2:47 so you have never seen a high school lunch room public microwave? Legit, they had to replace the working one we had because it had a giant chocolate stain in the middle.
When I started working retail, I actually LOST weight (about 5 lbs) from walking/running around, heavy lifting. I know the feeling, you're too damn tired to cook and and on your feet all day long and walking round and round trying to make yourself useful and your sciatica is killing you. Some stores would have a subway. I'm so thankful for the nearby taco bell.
A former coworker took there crock pot to work letting the food finish cooking while they worked.
This speaks to me on so many levels, I’m watching as I sit in the break room drinking a monster and a bag of beef jerky.
Thankfully working in the restaurant industry we typically get fed pretty well. Especially if you work at a privately owned, non-corporate restaurant. Most places I worked at we’d actually have “family meal” at the start of our shift. We’d get a really good salad an entree and basically whatever we wanted to drink (bottled water: sparkling or still), coffee/espresso/tea, or sodas. I actually miss those meals. As most of them were delicious! As they were made in house of course.
I’m not sure what it is that creates the feeling, but I also regularly just don’t want to eat. It’s not meal prep or any of that stuff (although I hate that too)- it’s just literally- I don’t feel like eating. I would 100% take a pill or drink a soylent or whatever to avoid eating.
I completely agree! I've replaced many many dinners with protein shakes filled with fruit and other things just to make sure I'm at least getting nutrients.
I used to own nothing but a microwave and a milkcrate because my landlord bumped rent on my studio appartment after a week from 300 to 650 a month, and minimum wage was only 7 dollars in my state, so my meals consisted of water filled noodle packets (no dishes) and water. i hate my life, I'm so poor still.
Fucking hell man
Spitter Cobra greedy bastard landlord
This is something I’ve always wondered...I usually see retail associates eating terrible food ALL the time. Thanks for this video.
My everyday at Walmart is a meatball sub from the Subway inside Walmart or a chicken sandwich from the deli
Beer has corn in it so ur gud
My diet really sucks when you work retail because you come home and your body is sore, you’re incredibly stressed out and you don’t have a lot of money or energy to go to the store and get something to actually cook because you know you’ll have to clean it afterwards
The diet of a retail employee is kinda similar to the diet of a teacher
You are right on about the garbage we eat in retail. Keep loading videos I enjoy them so much especially about retail. You are so real and that means a lot. Love you
Lunch break working at retail? You mean that 15 minute break where you cram what you can in your throat?
I’ve kinda trained myself if I have a short shift like 4-6 hours I’ll just not eat until I get home.
I worked at a grocery store. We was lucky to even get a break.
I used to meal prep chicken thighs/drumsticks, and spinach. It was like 4 meals for 6 bucks.
Chicken with the skin still on it is really cheap and spinach sauteed in chicken fat makes it way better.
I stopped cuz I usually only had time to cook in the morning, but wanted to sleep in 😴
when i worked in retail during my lunchtime i would go to the nearest dollar store and get a microwavable hamburger/ grilled chicken sandwich, or microwavable alfredo pasta. the sad thing is the microwave somehow managed to suck the flavor out of the food... i have no idea how that's even possible
When I worked at a restauranttI gained 33 pounds, then took about less than a year to lose weight... yea even if free food is offered don't do it all the time.
Oh yeah that's true there. I've worked at The Boathouse for almost a year now and I've only asked for food a few times. When it comes to left over catering food I'm all over that.
I didn't even know you worked at a chinese restaurant
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I worked at a dollar general for 6 months, hated every single second of it. I always closed and I’d buy a pack of swishers, a honey bun, whatever other bullshit snacks and candy I wanted & some sugary ass drink, go home smoke weed & eat myself to the point of sickness every single night, it wasn’t a good environment & during my breaks I ate exactly the same thing, glad I got out of that.
i have a gluten intolerance so i cant eat most of those cheap crap foods because it makes me rly sick. its a blessing and a curse. on one hand, im much healthier than i would be if i could eat fast food and shit like that. on the other hand, it eats up all my spending money. cant win. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gears 5 is SUCH a miserable experience :D Its hilarious
Has anyone else experienced dramatic weight loss since starting a retail job? And I mean unhealthy weight loss, like the kind that makes you sick.