Tales from Retail: The Horrible Diet of the Average Retail Employee

[@FANTAVISION]

Streaming some Gears 5 tonight with ExecutePrincess and Eric! Come on by and watch the blood fly! www.twitch.tv/fafafanta

[@FEEAR1000]

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.

[@ektran4205]

ramen noodle are freeze dried

[@darrylwoodbury]

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.

[@InnerRise]

The ability to relate has never been stronger.

[@ducksoop.x]

I relate to this so much, you're 100% on point about how it feels/tastes when you're mentally exhausted like that.

[@mikeymcchoas3511]

@Believe on Jesus Christ For Eternal Life Give yourself to the Dark Lord.

[@myralyra5978]

I use to eat Wendy’s every night the worst I ever felt 😂

[@courtneylynn1523]

This! I gained like 15-20 lbs in the 2 years I worked at Walmart because I ate ALOT of fast food and the food from the deli

[@Koko-xt2cg]

Can I say there's also a weird stigma with bringing your own food? I worked from home when my gf worked at Walmart, and I would prep her lunches for her every day. She would actually have people make snide comments and give her weird looks? Almost like it should be shameful to not be eating chips or pizza and soda. Its wild.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

I brought a homemade double cheeseburger for lunch at pretty much all of my retail jobs. Nobody cared enough to make snide remarks. Your gf's coworkers were probably just jealous.

[@ambersummer2685]

They wish they had the energy and will power to cook their own food at home.

[@dianaquill9969]

That is called *jealousy*.

[@Samuel_Crowthief]

​@@MK_ULTRA420that sounds fire what 😭

[@ChadAV69]

That’s simply because most people that work at Walmart are either very young and immature people or just very immature people. That’s why they work at Walmart. When I used to work at a landscaping company, people would make jokes because I didn’t want to eat fast food for lunch every day.

[@citrus5514]

in retail i've notice that there's two types of people - the ones who don't really feel like eating or they care about their money, so they just make a depressing plain sandwhich or a bag of chips or something and eat that. and there's the other type of person (aka me) who would be so dead in side during their shifts that they don't care and spend like an hours worth of wages buying something unhealthy from the deli/hot box/local fast food place and chug it down because it's their only source of dopamine for the next 8 hours.

[@shineeis5657]

Yeah that's most of what I see in the break room. I usually cook my lunches, but I get that not everyone has the energy for it.

[@rosylagoon3600]

Yeah so true. I worked at a supermarket for a year and was surprised at the amount of people that bought feasts from the deli everyday. Also the guys that would blow their paychecks on scratch tickets in desperation. I would mostly just take free fruit from the store for my break or bring a little snack. If I bought something it was usually a little hummus container or sushi if I was feeling rlly hungry but I tried not to spend money.

[@keimist7398]

I just dont eat at work, just breakfast before work and then dinner after work.

[@Samuel_Crowthief]

​@@keimist7398same

[@laurenmurphy7187]

I just eat my feelings during my lunch break

[@HeroSword_P]

Too relatable

[@Drstrange3000]

Damn... This hits close to home.

[@samhighvoltage]

Fml literally what I'm doing rn

[@fuhgetabatit1051]

SAME!!

[@BOG0690]

The grocery staff here eats cigarettes on their breaks LOL

[@gregs5449]

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.

[@lieffian]

Greg S what’s the job, I was a cart pushed until they played the schedule game

[@misscustomer3345]

All positions at Walmart are extremely stressful

[@killianlile173]

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.

[@laureljade3476]

my blood pressure would skyrocket like 155/100

[@josephwolf7552]

Opposite with me because I was cart pusher

[@RachelRichards]

When I worked retail, I fasted every day until 4 pm, and then ate something like hardboiled eggs, or dark chocolate and almonds, or leftover chicken. People would ask me about my high energy, and it was probably the diet.

[@stripedrajang3571]

Wait, you like to fast, mamita?

[@coachgodwinpeanutheadass4038]

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

[@therealjaystone2344]

Walmart is not a supermarket food store

[@mrconroy4672]

I seen customers get more than 5 12 soda packs. No wonder why they couldn’t lose weight.

[@Burnt_Alive]

lmao the amount of ppl i see buying unhealthy frozen microwavable meals at target is staggering 😵

[@brenden8548]

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.

[@Burnt_Alive]

@@brenden8548 same lol

[@TheLeastOfficialOfBros]

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

[@zeekutartheimmortal]

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.

[@TallyWackaTha2nd]

Yeah I would have loved an hour break. Or at least 45 minutes

[@novaskyzero]

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.

[@NoxCattus]

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...

[@annaselbdritt7916]

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

[@devbyrd6127]

That’s awful. Hopefully you’re working somewhere better and that job actually lets you have a break

[@Laz3rCat95]

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.

[@ParisGreen-zw7yd]

Thats absolute slavery😢

[@flyaway2846]

How many hours do you work?

[@ambersummer2685]

Chipotle workers get 30mins which is understandable but always feels like 5 mins

[@BigTea]

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.

[@TallyWackaTha2nd]

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.

[@412StepUp]

Yep. I deliver for Amazon. You basically have to get fast food. It sucks.

[@mrn234]

@@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.

[@ektran4205]

@@TallyWackaTha2nd patrol duty

[@Daakist]

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.

[@FANTAVISION]

Not a bad idea actually

[@BOG0690]

YES, TERRIBLE

[@shastaweston]

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

[@RoastedToastedPoops]

In asian restaurants its worse (lots of cocaine). Caffeine doesn't do the trick after a while.

[@trolljones4386]

That has to be nonsense Roasted toasted simply because cocaine is expensive and people working at Chinese restaurants probably can't afford it.

[@RoastedToastedPoops]

@@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

[@rommix0]

That's a good way to be dehydrated.

[@nikkiisixxzz]

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

[@FANTAVISION]

Haha well that's because it was me

[@stupidmovies85]

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

[@LittleMissDeath]

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.

[@jonpark973]

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.

[@hshaosoowkw7420]

Lmao imagine getting payed with peanuts.

[@skellymom]

You bring up a very valid point. Plus so many people live in food deserts with no access to healthy food even if they could cook from scratch.

[@Nicole-rq8ix]

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!!!

[@Tempus0ptic]

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.

[@fuzer909]

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.

[@LeftytheGansterGremlin]

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.

[@Tempus0ptic]

@@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

[@killianlile173]

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.

[@Speckled_Butterfly7206]

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.

[@deejaygalaga]

Fanta, you and Chamelot311 are the top publishers in my feed. Thank you for the great content!

[@kreykelly]

I used to get sick constantly while eating fast food every day

[@rommix0]

It's terrible stuff. Fast food is enough to give you indigestion and diarrhea.

[@joetheitalian1820]

Bro fuckin deadass

[@nickt.2238]

@@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.

[@apotheases]

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]

not sure why you’re flexing about mooching off your sister’s work leftovers lmao

[@apotheases]

@@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]

Sounds sweet honestly

[@apotheases]

@@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.

[@skellymom]

​@@xdandychigginsHey don't knock it. I work at a place where they order for holidays and lunch and learns. A LOT of that food goes to waste and thrown out. So I take stuff home all the time to my family. There are times I've handed my cheap Tupperware containers through the window to the local homeless at a stoplight to give it away so it doesn't go to waste (work downtown and they panhandle). Still so much gets thrown away. Food waste in the US is a HUGE problem too.

[@zrtkuli]

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.

[@curtisfrazier9047]

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

[@norsemanulfenn1956]

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.

[@havingteawiththedevil]

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....

[@kelsmister]

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.

[@TallyWackaTha2nd]

10 lb in 2 years isnt too bad

[@joshua8414]

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!

[@killianlile173]

Nice tip, might try it myself.

[@sccgproductions]

As a former fat kid turned skinny take it from me when I say that single ingredient foods are key to improving your diet.

[@LeftytheGansterGremlin]

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.

[@MrTallandrew]

Nicolas Charron Bananas sweet potatoes beans kale carrots

[@LeftytheGansterGremlin]

@@MrTallandrew I eat Bannana's and Carrots a lot. Haven't tried Sweet Potatoes. Kale, meh. But THANK YOU!

[@sccgproductions]

Chicken, eggs, oatmeal

[@LeftytheGansterGremlin]

@@sccgproductions Oh Damn, I LOVE Oatmeal! Thank you!

[@dxk65]

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.

[@memorylost5399]

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.

[@BlueKunai]

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.

[@Effekt1155]

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

[@fallonschannel]

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

[@charles2241]

Lard and it's scent can be pretty delicious to some.

[@Mayrita77]

Lol Macdonalds is shit

[@WhiterThanAginger]

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.

[@xdandychiggins]

boom. perfect diet.

[@Ryan-vl2nn]

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.

[@Altor863]

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.

[@danl9607]

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

[@slamislife74]

Also everything has sugar shoved into it. Even sliced white bread, which is already pure carbs, has added sugar. It's bonkers :/

[@berob501]

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.

[@wooferjr169]

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.

[@codyprine9200]

When I worked at retail, my lunch was 2 lunch-sized bags of chips or Chex-Mix and a Coke.

[@averyterribleperson5292]

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.

[@TallyWackaTha2nd]

Fucking hell man

[@devinpeirce7152]

Spitter Cobra greedy bastard landlord

[@debradunn109]

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

[@laureljade3476]

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.

[@aspire41oh89]

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

[@CQCorruptionQuest]

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

[@xsteveconwayx]

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.

[@OlympusGamingTV]

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

[@cortfoster1543]

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

[@SHARONMYOUI-g5p]

I do that at Safeway but it is $1.59

[@TallyWackaTha2nd]

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.

[@Zeivusgaming]

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

[@westabsupplyebay4093]

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

[@residentevilclone]

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.

[@FANTAVISION]

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.

[@autobotzapof0002]

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.

[@JohnnyYK]

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.

[@ScottsThoughts]

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

[@el1tefire252]

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

[@Blackshadow164]

El1teFire nonsense, I eat it 3 types a day. The left side of my body aches....but I tough it out with anime.

[@V1VISECT6]

That shits soo good though, gotta love MSG. I haven't had instant ramen in a while actually.

[@CaseyHayesVocals]

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

[@guysanders2659]

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

[@Mezcon2]

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!

[@puppyhowler]

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

[@BlackMaleLion]

Tales from Retail: KZbin videos You Watched on your Breaks

[@-thecokeaddict-8640]

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.

[@kmc0728]

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

[@laureljade3476]

😋

[@Fonsosal]

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

[@garrett4063]

What did you eat?

[@Fonsosal]

SoyIsBoi mainly hot pockets and a lot of water

[@Z-A-C]

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

[@bombfirst157]

Zomagedon is cereal in the keto diet?

[@TheOutlawgal]

When you only have a 10 min break or 15 min break its hard to eat your fill.

[@innotech]

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

[@Mezcon2]

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.

[@charityrichards7860]

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.

[@nancys5547]

I’m usually so broke that I have to live off of change found around the house or tips. Most days are sausage sticks or a bag of chips. If I have less than $1, a donut. I take Honey Nut Cheerios in a sandwich bag as a backup.

[@chiyerano]

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.

[@Rolafairy]

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

[@TheBlightMonkey]

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!

[@BlackMaleLion]

I love that idea.

[@jeffplissken8996]

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.

[@krashcartkush5614]

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.

[@ineptmorg395]

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

[@mraarontorres]

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

[@emilium4482]

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.

[@ceez8731]

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

[@melodyconte]

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 😴

[@FidelCashflow13]

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

[@voltagedylan5968]

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

[@PS3GamingScotland]

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.

[@GT6SuzukaTimeTrials]

I bring a sandwich and yogurt and chips. Fuck fast food and wasting gas. I work in a warehouse for shit pay.

[@gwilledp4183]

The fact that I have to plan every single meal is stressful. If i dont have enough food before my shift, id be starving before my lunch break, if I ate too much, then i dont eat lunch and end up cranky because i had nothing to eat on my lunch break. I can never win

[@DarkManX16]

The diet of a retail employee is kinda similar to the diet of a teacher

[@MrRudePolite]

Talks about horrible diet, starts by popping open a beer

[@hunterthornton9609]

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

[@brose2323]

34 years ago I worked at a Jcpenny and I ate McDonald's twice a day . I started the day with breakfast and 2 large coffees and 6 packets of sugar each. My day consisted of hauling console tvs, strapping sleeper sofas on Chevettes and having people twist me for a mark down. Afghanistan was less stressful.

[@willcorlett7270]

Red bull and haribo for breakfast is how you survive a 14 hour day

[@ElonShmusk]

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

[@rufustherat1794]

I worked in the produce section for 2 days and immediately quit I don’t know how retail workers do it. Truly unsung heroes.

[@leekshikapinnamneni4835]

Have you considered a mini slow cooker? If you’re a single adult, you don’t have to get a big crockpot. Small slow cookers are available. Just one or 2 quarts and they’re pretty handy. You can put whatever protein or vegetables you want in there, add whatever seasoning you want, and you can add water. Less than a cup or so because you don’t want to make soup all the time. Things can cook in a slow cooker for as long as eight hours or maybe even longer. You can come home to a hot meal once you’re done with work because your food is cooking while you work.

[@kaylaglazz]

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

[@iseein4d]

This was one of your best yet! Great video. I'm also really interested in that cooking device.

[@LarryGambino]

my weights fluctuated abunch working retail in a pretty big mall . its way too easy to just grab anything close by when you have basically no time to enjoy anything or no money and need somethin cheap .

[@dantheasian5060]

Same, when I started working as a stocker at a local but pretty busy grocery store I lost like 8 pounds because of all the lifting and walking. After about 3 months I started to gain weight because I learned I could get free sodas and I would buy huge bags of gummies every night.

[@LarryGambino]

@@dantheasian5060 yeah same . gamestop made me put on a decent amount of weight but then i did stock for call it spring and i did everything solo cuz its better for me that way and lost some significant weight . now i walk dogs so i should cut out the soda cuz i already dropped a few lbs but could lose more .

[@dantheasian5060]

@@LarryGambino Cutting the free sodas definitely is helping me lose weight. I'm a compulsive spender and at the end of a long shift at 10pm, it's easy to over spend, especially when I'm hungry which is why I just leave my wallet at home most nights.

[@LarryGambino]

@@dantheasian5060 yeah i literally cant stop drinkin baja blast . but taco bell is cutting abuncha shit from their menu so im gonna lower my intake either way . and same i get home from the job im leaving at 11 at night , im not standing around making my own dinner ill grab something and run in the house then go to bed.

[@Natatattatification]

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

[@clarity2118]

For a little while I skipped lunch, then I started eating protein bars, and then I started bringing my dinner leftovers. I don’t like “packing a lunch” so I would make a lot of food and then bring that for lunch. My favorite was stir fry.

[@Gboythunda]

Seen a publix employee just eat an entire tray of chocolate cookies in one day. All 3 rows of chips a hoy. I was flabbergasted.

[@xbellezax]

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

[@rommix0]

I've read somewhere that a kid went blind due to his diet of fries and soda.

[@xbellezax]

@@rommix0 great