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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.

I just eat my feelings during my lunch break

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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'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

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.

Currently eating Baked Hot Cheetos with a sprite in my car for lunch. I work at Walmart and do the online grocery Pickup😂.

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.

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

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

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.

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 used to get sick constantly while eating fast food every day

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!

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!

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Diet is the hardest thing to change with getting healthier. Fast food is too convenient.

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.

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.

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.

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 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....

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 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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

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

Crockpots are cheap and a great way to meal prep a bunch of frozen chicken

Dispite working at Walmart for a year, the food I would eat didnt make me gain weight. It actually made me lose weight😳😳

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.

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 also learned how bad instant ramen was when I looked at the nutritional facts and was shocked how it is so unhealthy

This is something I’ve always wondered...I usually see retail associates eating terrible food ALL the time. Thanks for this video.

Current walmart employee and I often buy boyardee cheese ravioli for 98 cents a can. I feel this

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.

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.

its hard having a mcdonalds inside Walmart and smelling it and not eating it

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 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.

As a game collector, I'm curious as to whether there were any uncommon games that showed up at gamestop when you worked there

A former coworker took there crock pot to work letting the food finish cooking while they worked.

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.

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.

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

I worked at a grocery store. We was lucky to even get a break.

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.

Yo dude. I swear to god, some dude that looked exactly like you came to my work yesterday. I work at bestbuy.

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.

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

I’ve kinda trained myself if I have a short shift like 4-6 hours I’ll just not eat until I get home.

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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

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 😴

My everyday at Walmart is a meatball sub from the Subway inside Walmart or a chicken sandwich from the deli

I work at a supermarket and they only give us 30 minutes to eat. We dont even have a microwave to heat up food. My only options are going to the nearest fast food hoping the drive through line wasnt too long or buy a sandwich at the bakery next door which gets old after three days straight

As a retail employee, I am on the keto diet. Not every retail employee is hopeless.

My store used to have one of those rotating vending machines for what I suppose you could call “last minute” meals. Mostly microwaveable, hot pocket level stuff, refrigerated hamburgers, every once in a while a drink like Yoohoo was in there. At first it seemed like a good idea but most of us ended up not feeling well after eating from it, and called the machine the “wheel of death.” We had a similar thing at my community college that served more desirable snack food. I only missed the coffee machine that gave us Butterfinger lattes.

Im an excercise science major, and as such nutrition is something we also have to learn. So to anyone in retail, the best food you can put into your body is worth it.

As someone that works retail its extremely hard to eat healthy and still have time. I cook, work, gym, sleep and repeat day in and day out... best part is sleep

My experiences at work with microwaves is a major reason why I only use toaster ovens and ovens to warm up my food at home or bring things that didn't require heating up at work.

Haven’t commented in ages but watched your videos for years! Just happened to pull this video up while ironically at my 9-5. At gamestop I lived off of Burger King. They were super restrictive on time, and my GameStop just had a Burger King in the same parking lot. If I didn’t live off of that, when I worked in various mall stores it was food in the food court or sandwiches. When I worked in a Kroger I literally ate the same cup of noodles and a bologna and cheese sandwich. I had digestive issues for years that magically disappeared about a year after I quit the retail life

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 eat pretty well at work. We dont actually get a lunch break though, you pretty much go if you have an opportunity. Which is to say I sometimes go about 8-9 hours without a break. We have some local instant cajun meals here that you would probably really like that is different from usual food of that type. I eat those sometimes when its too busy or lately during stay-at-home

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.

Wendy’s became my semi-regular thing at my retail job, I’d just walk there and back to slightly balance out calories but because of the price it was a bi-weekly thing for me at most. Just a place to put in headphones and eat unhealthy.

Something about you reminds me of Eric Foreman lol

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.

The problem is, few even go to the produce section and get low calorie lunches. I was able to do that and managed to lose weight by walking and moving around. Tv dinners can pack on the pounds. I occasionally went to the deli or Subway, sometimes I brought my own. I avoided fast food. If you can put together low calorie lunches it is doable. Constantly seeing and smelling fatty and greasy food kept me away from the deli, except for cold sandwiches and salads. It is doable. You just have to think about your choices.

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!

I once worked at university cafeteria and it was great cos we got free breakfast lunch and dinner. I hardly ever cooked!

One of the things I recommend is just fixing more food than what you're going to eat at once. This way you only cook maybe a few times a week. I like cooking chicken thighs and putting a few in the oven with cheap Spanish seasonings-they are so delicious! I also had some microwave rice and potato cups, and I loved getting fruit like strawberries when I had roommates. Honestly it was very cheap. If you have an Aldi near you, go there. My grocery bill each week was like $20 for myself.

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

Its true, i work in a factory now diet hasnt changed much vending machines, energy drinks and 7/11

Easy and cheap would be a blended bean and lentil soup. With veggies and rice and such. Puree and freeze it in bulk, and you can heat it up fast and just drink it down.

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

Absolutely! I would comfort eat every chance I got! My diet is being improved with some very serious conscious effort

Been in retail for 19 years(I know, not smart)....I used to eat processed food/snacks as well as sodas and monster energy drinks. Since the Rona, I became more of a home cook and even bought a hydroponic garden as well as kicking soda and monster drinks to side in favor of coffee and tea. Definitely less sick than I used to be but still need to work on sugar and carbs

When you drag yourself to work it feels like youre going into the belly of a beast.

Lunch break working at retail? You mean that 15 minute break where you cram what you can in your throat?

I work in retail. IM jealous you get to do this now! Glad you got outta there :)

My diet at Gamestop is 2 bags of lays from Subway and a bottle of coke. Every freaking day. Working at Target and Walmart made me gain at least 100 pounds so I ended up getting close to 300 pounds and I lost it all just recently!

My diet was all right,I didnt really put anything in the fridge because onetime I had 2 finger sandwiches left and someone ate them.What made it better was I licked them so know some employee has my ligma. People left all different kinds of crap in that fridge... I would usually get like a creamcheese bagel eat half than save half for later,I did a calzone one time!

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.

My diet was mostly Candy I only had 4-5 hour shifts and it was at night. I only had a 15 minute break so I just grabbed candy (I mostly don't even eat candy anymore,or I eat European Candy. If I had a 30 minute break or was Hungry I would walk down to the Pizza Shop and grab a slice of pizza

Beer has corn in it so ur gud

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

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.

Currently living on energy drinks and boxes of $1 French fries at my retail job

I work at walmart and this is so true even for me. Up until a week ago I was just grabbing the ez mac and cheese for lunch or something they make in the cafe there, both horrible for you. It was cheap and it was fast and easy. Now I'm preparing my meals and eating healthier because I realized how unhealthy it was, but it's very easy to just grab what's the easiest and cheapest

Break 1 - Candy bar or bag of chips, Lunch - Energy drink & Deli Food , Break 2 - small snack or not hungry

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.