Why are so many of us over weight?

P_RN, ADN, RN · Nov 15, 2005

Suggestions only please. The OP hasn't returned.

If it was homework...then do we want it moved to the student forum?

If it wasn't homework do we want to debate it?

WE know it is a time worn subject. New folks don't.

Opinions on what to do with the thread?

**SKM-NURSIEPOOH, BSN, RN** · Nov 15, 2005

fluffy vs fat? to the op you are new with only 4 posts. this is a flammable subject to most people not just nurses. is it a school project?

let's try to stay on the topic which is "fluffy" nurses.......not why did the posters offend me.

i was at my top weight until i suffered a back injury. down the tube went my 2-3 miles a day and my exercycle. then i got pneumonia 4x in that first year.....went on steroids. broke some vertebrae....less exercise...round and round. that's my reason...no excuse but now i am ......the f word.

please no more student slings and arrows...please?

just wanted to say i was writing my last post & didn't see this post until after submitting it....sorry if you feel my last post has any slings/arrows in it...just expressing my opinion is all ~

cheers!

moe

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Nov 15, 2005

Suggestions only please. The OP hasn't returned.
If it was homework...then do we want it moved to the student forum?
If it wasn't homework do we want to debate it?
WE know it is a time worn subject. New folks don't.
Opinions on what to do with the thread?

It maybe a time-worn subject, but it's mature in tone.

How is it violating the TOS? I don't see where it is (could be, i just haven't seen it), so that's not a reason.

I don't think it's necessarily fair to close it when new folks weren't around for the other threads. Perhaps they have other views that have not been presented, you never know.

You definately don't know for sure when a thread's locked.

**SKM-NURSIEPOOH, BSN, RN** · Nov 15, 2005

that requires time and effort. you're simply asking for too much lol. j/k

(frosts my crack, i mean are we talking cake frosting, or frozen water kind of frost?)

i don't know really....lol :rotfl:!!! it was outrageous & just tickled my funny bone when i read it the other day & thought...'i've got to use this one sometime

!'

cheers!

moe

P_RN, ADN, RN · Nov 15, 2005

I din't say the thread was against the TOS. Let's stick with the topic as the OP is long gone.

An example: I tried to use the chat last night. I've been internetting since Windows 3.1. I couldn't figure out how to use chat..... I was new.

nurse4theplanet, RN · Nov 15, 2005

I say you leave it open...its a worthy enough topic to debate. I think the real underlying message in this thread is students preconceived ideas of what nurses are and are not *supposed* to be (as said by one skinny minny nursing student)

I thinks the term 'FAT' has just made this a little too hot and personal (I hate STEREOTYPES and offensive terms...obese or weight challenged would have been more appropriate)

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Nov 15, 2005

No, you didn't say it was a violation of the TOS, but i was using that as an example of a reason not to close the thread (thinking that the TOS violation has been a reason for past threads on various subjects to get padlocked.)

onconurseRT · Nov 15, 2005

But secondly- NONE of my job descriptions ever discussed being a good role model. Sorry but that is just a bunch of hooey sold to us in school.

I would have to respectfully disagree... I was never "sold hooey" in nursing school that had anything to do with being a good role model in life. I realized the impact and importance of being a good role model well before that. I have the distinct privelege of raising 3 boys that are not biologically mine for the simple fact that they desperately need someone to love them and to serve as a responsible role model for them at home as well as at work. My job description does include this as well. Part of the yearly evaluation and job description does contain "blocks" that include the 'ability to serve as a resource and a role model to all students, new employees as well as fellow co-workers.'

:) Thanks

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Nov 15, 2005

I thinks the term 'FAT' has just made this a little too hot and personal (I hate STEREOTYPES and offensive terms...obese or weight challenged would have been more appropriate)

Ok, well, i'm asking this because i want to know, and i'm asking this to anyone, i only quoted this part of a person's post to show where i thought of this question from, and not asking this particular person.

Why are some people not offended by the word "fat"? I understand why people could be offended by the word, but i really don't know why someone wouldn't be?

nurse4theplanet, RN · Nov 15, 2005

If we are supposed to be good role models when it comes to health, why is it that so many of us are overweight? I'm just a student, so I don't know much, but I want to know what everyone else thinks about this!! Is it because there is no time to exercise with 12 hours shifts, and no time to find healthy food because there are such short lunch breaks? These are what I am guessing, but I want to know from real nurses why all of y'all think so many of your co-workers are overweight. (I don't mean to offend anyone with this post!!) Just curious!! Thanks for any opinions you have.

*HOORAY* new title...

back to the subject

ideally, we would all love to be the perfect role models for our patients, yet that is simply unattainable. Overweight issues are no different. Let's say the nurse counseling you on how to eat properly weighs twice as much as you do. Does that make her educational instruction less credible? No. Why? Because you don't know why SHE is overweight...thyroid problem, genetics, depression, overeating, or just too busy taking good care of pt's like you that she sacrifices her lunch breaks.

You wanted to know what everyone else thinks about this...Well *I* think that we should look beyond size and focus on ability of our nurses.

Yes it could be because of long shifts, no lunch breaks, easy access to chips/cokes/coffee, etc. But there are more variables in regards to the individual that also add to the problem...so it's not so easy to just say that is the reason why there are obese nurses. Just because one changes an occupation doesn't mean it will change their wt much so I really don't think they are as closely related as some studies would like you to believe.

Oh...and I forgive you for your originally offensive title. You are new and curious and this was probably not a warm welcome. Feel free to post all your questions in the future without worrying what others will think. Many times I have posted something that I thought was meant and worded in the nicest manner...only to get completely:flamesonb

Turd.Ferguson · Nov 15, 2005

As neither an overweight person nor a nurse (I'm a student), I find this thread interesting. I have wondered the same thing that the original poster asked. I know that the great majority of nurses work their butts off, so why the great number of people who are overweight? My decision was that nurses reflect society in general. There are a lot of people who are overweight. Even athletes; look at football linemen.

We now know that the word "fat" is "politically incorrect" and should not be mentioned in postings, lest a verbal whipping occurs.

P_RN, ADN, RN · Nov 15, 2005

My padlocking equipment is off duty. Thanks.