Nurses can eat properly if they manage their time

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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?

Yea, I eat faster than anyone I know, talking about mucous the entire time. I do need to slow up.

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Specializes in Med/Surg/ICU/Stepdown.
Yea, I eat faster than anyone I know, talking about mucous the entire time. I do need to slow up.

If anything, I think that's where most people cringe at the thought of eating with a nurse. The gore! We can't help it. 😂

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Specializes in L&D.

Lol @ cheezewiz.

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Specializes in L&D.

I dont want to be the type of nurse that skips lunch or sacrifices my own health to keep others healthy. Skipping meals actually causes weight gain among other unpleasant effects.

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Specializes in Mental Health Nursing.

I guess it really sucks that I'm scarfing down a cheeseburger while reading these posts. Dang it, I missed lunch and breakfast too!

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Specializes in geriatrics.

I prepare meals for 3-4 days at a time. This morning I made brown rice with kale and spinach in it, a pan of vegetables, and baked chick peas.

This way I have enough food for healthy lunches and it's portioned out in containers.

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Specializes in ICU.

If anything, I have more time to eat as a nurse. My first job only gave us 15 minute breaks, and I would drive to both the Starbucks and McDonald's in the parking lot, get a cheeseburger and eat it, then get a mocha and chug it down, and be back in time to clock in before my 15 minutes were up. Getting 30 minutes to eat as a nurse is plenty of time!

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

I remember when I was working at a nursing home I was on my "break" (ha! What a joke). I was in the break room, just sat down, had my sandwich in my mouth & an aide came & got me. So I just shoved the sandwich in my mouth & put the rest of my lunch away. People wonder why we eat so fast!

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"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.

Wow. How RUDE.

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"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.

Oh, lord....

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"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.

As we bow our head in respect to those who are so "perfect" here are my two cents regarding your post Cheezypuffs

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
As we bow our head in respect to those who are so "perfect" here are my two cents regarding your post Cheezypuffs

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^THIS. :roflmao:

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