Cookies and chocolate at the nursing station!

tenestone
tenestone Posts: 3 Member
edited November 14 in Motivation and Support
I work on a very busy med-surg unit in a hospital and find it so hard to resist temptations during the holidays. I have little time to devote to eating at work and find it almost impossible not to pop a piece of chocolate or a cookie in my mouth while I'm running by the nursing station. I fill up on junk at work and then when I get home from work I'm ravenous for real food. I have gained so much weight since becoming a nurse. Am I the only one?

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Can you bring your own snacks?
  • crackpotbaby
    crackpotbaby Posts: 1,297 Member
    I just pretend they were handmade by the thoughtful family of an infectious patient.

    Suddenly not so appealing.

    ........

    Plus I bring my own celery sticks and cherry tomatoes, almonds, and a proper lunch/dinner.

    My uniform is getting baggy.
  • tenestone
    tenestone Posts: 3 Member
    Yes I need to start packing snacks for sure!
  • lauracups
    lauracups Posts: 533 Member
    View them as being part of the holiday decorations, you wouldn't eat the decorations. A good sub is having a strong mint or licorice hard candy on hand, it gives you that taste where anything after that wouldn't taste right.
  • kenyonhaff
    kenyonhaff Posts: 1,377 Member
    I ask myself if this particular cookie is really worth it. To me there's a VAST difference between the average crappy sugar cookie and one that the angels above weep for its perfect beauty. Is it worth working out 30 minutes for that cookie? Sometimes, honestly it is. But when it starts affecting my workouts that is when it becomes real. B)
  • pdxwine
    pdxwine Posts: 389 Member
    edited December 2016
    I cured myself from a big bowl of jelly beans, at a former workplace. Another employee never ate any of them. I asked her why.

    She told me that too many hands went in to that bowl and she knew of a few employees who would use the bathroom, not wash their hands and dip in to the bowl.

    No more jelly beans for me.

  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited December 2016
    A couple of things for me...one, I do not at all like commercially baked goods which is a lot of what rolls through my office...two, if they are homemade, I'm not particularly aware of the makers personal hygiene habits...I have no idea where there hands were prior to rolling the cookie dough. As a general observation, a lot of people have really *kitten* hygiene...

    I brown bag my own snacks along with my breakfast and lunch.
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