My suggestion is get yourself an ice chest with some blue ice so that food
stuff stays cool without getting wet.

Then I hope you have a microwave at work. That would make it
convenient. I'm assuming that you do. :)

Pack the cooler with:

Deviled Eggs

Boiled chicken packed in a Mason Jar.
This can be eaten as a soup or as just the chicken.

A can of tuna
Several boiled eggs
Mayo: Put Mayo in a a little Mason jar or old pimento cheese jar
Find a salt and pepper shaker with a tight closed lid.

With the above, you can make tuna fish salad or egg salad.

Add no carb cheese cut into little squares. These can be eaten by
themselves or added to the tuna salad or egg salad.

You can always place the salads on a lettuce leaf or a bed of shredded
lettuce.

Baked chicken

Cheese strips rolled up with a slice of ham. NOTE: Be sure the ham
doesn't have carbs. Use a toothpick to hold it together. Make it really
special by adding a green olive with pimento. Buy the olives that
indicated <1 carb/per 3 olives.

These are a few samples.

The sugar snacks will give you a high but you'll also crash or need to eat
more. This is a vicious pattern.

Try taking a Guarana tablet. It will give you energy and not add sugar.
For those who are having a fit that I suggested Guarana, I know that it may
stall the diet but the few times I used it it didn't. Some of the Guarana
has caffeine but others don't. Also, I hope that someone on the list can
give better suggestions on what can help to keep Carol awake for her job
and life because sugar is the one thing that she shouldn't be using.

Besides Carol, once on this diet, you will natural have more energy because
sugar can make your system sluggish.

Cherri

> My name is Carol and I'm new to the group, I'm hoping to pick up
>some great tips on staying on the Atkin diet and how not to cheat. My
>problem is that I work night shift and I'm up most of the day.
>
> When I go to work at night (12:00 midnight) I'm looking for a
>something to give me some energy, candy,cookies,popcorn what every,
>HELP. I neglected to say that on certain days when I get off from
>working night shift, I go and watch my grand daughters for about 6
>hours - so I'm up for most of the day.
>
>I can not get a good eating pattern, please somebody shoot me or help
>me.
>
> Thank you for listening to me complain.
>
>Rember I'm just starting out. be kind.


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