Nurses on a diet...

I'm also a nurse. My problem is some of the nurses put food out to share. It's so much easier to grab a handful than to take a break and prepare my home brought food. Mostly, I need the will power to take the time to get my own food. One positive, I'm running up & down the halls much of the time. Somehow that must count!!!

I am also a nurse. I start at 6 am so eating breakfast is out of the question. then to top it off I don't go to lunch until 1230 if I am lucky by then I am so hungry i over eat!!!!! then same with dinner, I need to start packing small snacks for work but it just a matter of finding the time to eat it. LOL
I also joined a gym and have been going atleast 4 times a week for the last 2 weeks. I hope this helps
If anyone has any advise please send it my way.

Not a nurse, but a medical technologist. I go into work at 4 am and by the time I finally get a break around 10 I am famished. I bring preportioned food and don't get anything out of the snack machine. When I finish eating I usually still feel hungry but within half an hour I'm full feeling. It's really important to my weight loss to portion out my food because my satiation trigger is evidently broken.

I used to bring some type of lean cusine or Subway sandwich...now,its greek yogurt,fruit,almonds....and I just save my belly 4 a good meal once im home...I work 8 hour shifts now...when I was 7pm-7am things were rough..I just ate whatever the rest of the crew was ordering or bringing from home..including the "Celebratory CAKE" Thats always around at EVERY place that ive worked..Its ALWAYS someones Birthday,retirement,Holiday..or something lol!

I'm a nurse too. But, I don't consider my eating and exercising plan a 'diet'. I'm just trying to make healthy choices and live a healthy lifestyle. I pack meals and snacks and occasionally get something like a salad or fruit and yogurt from the cafe. I typically bring a nature valley granola bar, strawberries and blueberries with some fat free greek yogurt and a little granola, a turkey and hummus sandwich made on pepperidge farm light bread, an apple, some baby carrots and snap peas or green pepper strips...etc. I avoid the food that people bring in like the plague. I find it hard to get my workouts in on work days since it's such a long day (12hr +) but, I get up early or will work out when I get home. It's a challenge but it can be done!

Feel free to add me, we are all going to be some fierce, fit nurses!

I'm a CNA so I understand ladies. For me its working graveyard shift and trying to care for my one year
old daughter and loving the hubby when he gets home. Not enough sleep is my problem....how do you ladies manage
work and family with those shifts? Bless you all.

I'm a nurse, but with the added challenge of being a theatre nurse. there's nothing worse than being scrubbed for a long case and getting all light-headed and shaky from hunger, but then I don't like to eat just in case I'll be hungry later, so it's a fine balance.
on a related note, it makes drinking my 2.2L of water per day tricky too... imagine having to stand at a table, watching a surgeon teaching a junior some technique, knowing there's still an hour before the case will be over, while your overfill bladder screams for mercy It's a situation you only put yourself in once.

I've never understood why nurses don't have set breaks when they expect you to work such long hours. Given the job you do, I think it'd make more sense if you didn't want to pull your hair out or punch something all day.

It's a nice thought - but if the floor is going crazy with admissions/discharges/patients doing badly, someone may not get a break on time on a "set schedule". Basically, you get a break when you get it, IF you get it. My manager PUSHES everyone to get breaks, so that's a perk - however, sometimes it's not till an hour before the end of the shift, somedays!

That being said, I'd love some more nurse friends on here to exchange easy lunch ideas! Feel free to add me I get really tired of frozen meals and sandwiches!

I'm a community nurse, so my break consists of driving to my next client's house. It can be a challenge to not get super dull with the same easy to eat and drive type foods. Also my hours are super inconsistent so if it turns out to be 'a long day' and I didn't expect it to be, I start eyeing those fast food joints. I find if I take more food then I think I will need, but keep it to healthy stuff that is easy to eat, and then stash an 'emergency' granola bar if it's going to be one of 'those days' I don't die or crack under the cravings.