Nurses can eat properly if they manage their time

[Brian]

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?

[brandy1017, ASN, RN]

"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.

While I understand the frustration and difficulty of dealing with morbidly obese patients and have even been injured caring for a 400 pound patient, I don't get all the hostility toward your fellow coworkers. Do you have to lift or carry them around, I doubt it so what is the problem? Nurses aren't bathing suit models or beauty pagent contestants the last I checked. Seriously, take a tranquilizer already! You seem to have some real issues that you may want to work on since 2/3 of the country is overweight. Why does it upset you so much?

[romantic, BSN, RN]

Not only eating healthy, but also hiking and even running. Some of my coworkers do yoga, kickboxing, Zumba, etc. so don't get frustrated so easily. We have very few people who are overweight.

Nurses becoming healthier these years.

[dito28]

The cartoon was just about eating fast, healthy or unhealthy , fat or skinny was not the context. I have been a nurse for 37 years and have mastered the art of eating FAST. It may be berries and salads or whatever but I have things ( important things) I want to do for my patients. My favorite line " Just not enough hours in the day." If this joke does not pertain to you let it go it is not a big deal. We may need a little more humor in nursing!

[hsierrainc]

As a nurse, it never seizes to amaze me how nurses are so critical about other nurses. I wonder if surgeons have these kinds of posts where they critique other surgeons on how they should eat or what they should look like. Who cares? As a profession, we should be supporting one another because god knows everyone else is willing and trying to rip us apart.