Nurses can eat properly if they manage their time

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Specializes in CCU, Geriatrics, Critical Care, Tele.

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Nurses, as we all know, often skip meals while they work. And, that isn't healthy. Sometimes we can scarf down a meal without chewing, and, that isn't healthy either. Those bad habits can spill over in our personal lives, too. The old saying, "chew your food at least xyz times before swallowing", is true. To avoid unpleasant GI issues or worse, we must take time during work and home to eat properly. Do you have trouble finding the time to eat healthy (if at all) at work and then carry bad habits home? What healthy ways have you found to eat at work?

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Specializes in Critical/Acute Care, Burns, Wound Care.

"Do you have trouble finding the time to eat healthy (if at all) at work and then carry bad habits home?"

NOPE.

Despite the name "All Nurses," this site poorly represents America's nurses because most of the nurses that I work with are relatively healthy and not obese. Based on responses and emotional reactions to my previous posts critical of obese nurses, I have found that most people who post on this site are obese women who are easily offended at any attempt on these forums to point out their hyposcrisy. They have a book of excuses for why they weigh 300+ pounds and have bariatric charting chairs at their nursing stations, and they want all of us normal people to bow down and serve them, to spoonfeed compassion and empathy to them, to coddle them. Makes me sick. Nurses have an obligation to be healthy. JUST DO IT.

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Whoa....calm down, it's just a cartoon (and website).

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Specializes in Med/Surg/ICU/Stepdown.

While I often do have trouble finding ways to eat healthy (if at all) while working, those aren't habits I carry over with me. Work is work, and even under the best of circumstances, it's not a controlled arena. Often times, lunch goes by the wayside because there are things far more important in that moment, and eating can happen just after my shift when there's a little more time.

Overall, the cartoon is funny. :up:

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I have to say that most of the time, certainly on our ward, most nurses get a meal break most of the time.

Sure - sometimes they might have to take a short one but they get a break all the same

I always bring my own food in so I can make sure I eat healthily - though if someone else brings in snacks to share I rarely say no!

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Specializes in hospice.

Ignore cheezy. He's nothing but a bomb thrower, and the worst fate for that type is to get no response.

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cheezwizz you are hilarious. I'm dying as I read this 😂😂😂

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cheezwizz90 said:
"Do you have trouble finding the time to eat healthy (if at all) at work and then carry bad habits home?"

NOPE.

Despite the name "All Nurses," this site poorly represents America's nurses because most of the nurses that I work with are relatively healthy and not obese. Based on responses and emotional reactions to my previous posts critical of obese nurses, I have found that most people who post on this site are obese women who are easily offended at any attempt on these forums to point out their hyposcrisy. They have a book of excuses for why they weigh 300+ pounds and have bariatric charting chairs at their nursing stations, and they want all of us normal people to bow down and serve them, to spoonfeed compassion and empathy to them, to coddle them. Makes me sick. Nurses have an obligation to be healthy. JUST DO IT.

Yikes, angry much? I must have missed something.....but I'm thinking I'm ok with that.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

Yeah, I either didn't eat or had to scarf it down in a few minutes. Then I ate the same way at home. People were always telling me to calm down. Haha. Although it has helped since I had a baby.

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Cheeeezball: I'm not offended by you, because I'm not in your target hate group. I do, however, hope one of them sits on you.

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Specializes in Mental Health Nursing.
cheezwizz90 said:
"Do you have trouble finding the time to eat healthy (if at all) at work and then carry bad habits home?"

NOPE.

Despite the name "All Nurses," this site poorly represents America's nurses because most of the nurses that I work with are relatively healthy and not obese. Based on responses and emotional reactions to my previous posts critical of obese nurses, I have found that most people who post on this site are obese women who are easily offended at any attempt on these forums to point out their hyposcrisy. They have a book of excuses for why they weigh 300+ pounds and have bariatric charting chairs at their nursing stations, and they want all of us normal people to bow down and serve them, to spoonfeed compassion and empathy to them, to coddle them. Makes me sick. Nurses have an obligation to be healthy. JUST DO IT.

I'm not a woman or obese, yet I don't see why you feel the need to pass judgment?

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OrganizedChaos said:
Yeah, I either didn't eat or had to scarf it down in a few minutes. Then I ate the same way at home. People were always telling me to calm down. Haha. Although it has helped since I had a baby.

Hmmmm.....my ten year old son eats everything like it's running away from him. Maybe I should suggest nursing for his future career.

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