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Here's another reason low carb is a great way to eat. Had an all day group assessment and testing yesterday for high paying job which happens to be located in a secured facility. I ate a good high fat high protein breakfast, suspecting meals and breaks might be scanty or nonexistent during the assessment, as a sneaky way of seeing how applicants reacted to that type of schedule, which is the norm in that setting, regardless of position.
Sure enough, no food breaks were given until almost 7 hours into the testing. No water or drinks were available either. In a class or 29, most of the people were miserable, complaining, caffeine starved, famished and complaining about it. Two of the applicants actually walked out over it.
At that point, the facility provided bread based sweets (peach bread etc) as a snack. Those that ate, ate far too much, with the predictable (to me) sugar slump that followed, and dramatically increased their thirst. We lost another one to that.
By the time they actually made it to the interviews, none of those that ate, were thinking as clearly, I am sure, as they would have been had we gotten a lunch.
The only applicants who did not seem to mind, were me, a really fit younger girl, another much heavier woman, and a male who had previously worked in a similar environment. The girl asked if they were going to provide anything with just fat and protein? No, the sweets was all. The four of us abstained from the sugary food.
Turned out that the three of us women all eat low carb, and from what the male worker reported, he basically eats that way when working shifts because he figured out on his own that if he did not eat the carbs, but instead filled up on the meat and fats, he wasn't ever hungry, but if he gave into peer pressure and had a piece of cake, bread etc, he would suffer the rest of the shift.
So us low carbers were the only ones _not hungry_, _not shaky_, _not becoming irritable, and with our heads still screwed on straight, in spite of dehydration, by the time the interviews rolled round.
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149.0 lb
Lost so far: 44.0 lb.
Still to go: 19.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 10.5 lb a week
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Strange. Were you able to bring in your own food? We women almost always have something stashed in their purses.
23 Jun 17 by member: Nanette61
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What kind of job is this for? And why didn't they set an appointment with you so that you didn't have to sit around in a waiting room for hours - that's crazy!
23 Jun 17 by member: soonsoonsoon
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Oh, yeah...nourishing the body from within! Awesome report!
23 Jun 17 by member: mskestrela
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We were not allowed to bring any food or drinks in, and no money at all. It was a secured facility. Think of something like a high risk mental hospital or prison. The only items we were allowed to bring in were our application paperwork, picture ID, I9 documents/transcripts/diplomas and our car keys. If your house keys were on the ring you had to take those back and lock them in your vehicle. We were not waiting in a waiting room - we were taking assessments, answering questions, listening to information about what we would be doing on a daily basis and responding to that, then testing some more, completing paperwork, etc. during probably 80% of the time. I really do think it was part of the process, to see how we handled delays in getting to eat, which was a common occurrence, when I worked similar, for all staff, whether security or professional. The lack of access to water was a bit overboard, I thought, because we always had access to water and coffee, as did security. But yeah, low carb came through. When I got home, I fixed a deluxe omelette with cheese, because I thought I really should eat something, but then got busy and forgot to eat it until it was cold!
25 Jun 17 by member: CathyWall
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