Venting - surrounded by unhealthy folks

cassieko
cassieko Posts: 40 Member
edited November 12 in Health and Weight Loss
So, I'm a dietitian. You would think that my co-workers would be super-healthy and fit... you would be wrong.
My two co-workers are older than I am and have admitted they "just don't care anymore" -- both are morbidly obese.

Because we eat for free, they both have ENORMOUS 4-course meals from the cafeteria - chicken fingers, fries, dessert every day...
One of them loves when the soup gets gross and thick and clumpy... it makes me sick sometimes watching them eat :(
This same person laughs about how she NEVER cooks and she and her family LITERALLY GO OUT TO EAT EVERY NIGHT. She was proud that she made french toast for dinner over the weekend and "had enough stuff in the house to make it" --!!
(The other one makes a big deal about cooking for her dogs, but then talks about eating ice cream for dinner!)

It's frustrating enough that dietitians eat like that when other people are watching, but it's even more frustrating when I am trying so hard to be healthy and eat right... I have started bringing my lunch or having salad from the salad bar, and walking with some of the nurses after lunch... but I'm just so frustrated and discouraged. The people who should be my allies are like "Oh, haha, youth - when you care about how you look, haha" :-/

Thanks for letting me vent. Sigh.

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  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    I love french toast. three ingredients, Bread (whole wheat) eggs and powdered sugar...mmmmmmm



    french-toast-sl-1218708-l.jpg
  • cassieko
    cassieko Posts: 40 Member
    I like french toast, too. I had a slice for breakfast this morning. But if you're impressed you had enough ingredients to make it, and you're an RD who tells other people how to eat all day long, that's sorta awful... at least to me
  • ili_s
    ili_s Posts: 66
    Personally if I wnet to a dietition or nutritionist and they were overweight or unhealthy looking... they wouldn't gte my business. I don't understand how your co-workers can have that attitude and I feel for your plight. :-S
  • angieleighbyrd
    angieleighbyrd Posts: 989 Member
    I saw a nutritionist while I was pregnant. If she would have been how you described I would have walked out. If they would have said something to me about looking good, I would have said it's not about looking good, it's about not having a heart attack and liver failure.
  • Krushchev
    Krushchev Posts: 178 Member
    Our RD uses an electric wheelchair because she is so obese. I asked her once & she said that she thought so much about how to manage other people's weight that she just didn't have the metal energy left for herself. I was like "Buh?!" I'm sorry, but once my job has started to cause me health problems, I'm looking for a new job.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    Damn, going to an overweight dietician to find out how to eat properly sorta seems like going to an illiterate teacher or an accountant who's in bankruptcy.
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    Damn, going to an overweight dietician to find out how to eat properly sorta seems like going to an illiterate teacher or an accountant who's in bankruptcy.


    or a fat pt
  • natachan
    natachan Posts: 149
    I love french toast. three ingredients, Bread (whole wheat) eggs and powdered sugar...mmmmmmm



    french-toast-sl-1218708-l.jpg

    Eeeww... that looks gross. I only eat french toast when I want to get rid of bread, and usually let my husband have more since he can eat more than I can.

    Also, HA! Obese dietitians. I met someone who was a respiratory therapist who smoked. Irony.

    If they want to eat improperly and die early of heart disease and complications with their weight, then let them.
  • lovelylovebug
    lovelylovebug Posts: 27 Member
    I'm a nutrition minor (I was going to be a RD but switched) and I was very perplexed when my professors were overweight/acted like they had no care in the world for being healthy. It is kind of strange to see people in the health field who aren't healthy.
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