rickyd88 Member

We shouldn't accept fat as healthy, but we should accept that we are all different. Some of us want to lose weight whilst others are content being bigger and it doesn't bother them. Some of us are tall and disguise the fact they are overweight. We shouldn't be encouraging weight loss or gain. We should be encouraging a…

I completely agree with you, but from personal experience my job has had an effect on me eating habits and since qualifying I have put on 4 stone in 4 years. At worst I was doing 18 hour days because my job was 80 miles away and I didn't drive. On my days off I needed to sleep. I didn't make the best food choices because I…

Well, apparently I was trying to 'backpedal' because I was serious?! Not in the slightest was I serious but I know that view point hurts for someone who would only refuse a nurse based on their weight. I sure as hell know from experience how horrible some patients can be, then when their life depends on it or they're in…

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It was, I thought, quite obviously a sarcastic post. Only a narrow minded poster would refuse to have someone help them based purely on their looks, which is what I was directing to that poster.

Haha that's a back handed compliment I think. You scream Alyson Hannigan. Very pretty.

You assume that because someone is thin that then are healthy? That jogging 30 miles a week makes them fit? That's ridiculous. You don't know if they have high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, if they smoke. You don't know them any better than you know any or the millions of nurses around the world. I'm "fat"…

Good luck finding one. I don't like my patients to be *kitten* but we don't all get what we want ...

Have you tried labelling it with something to deter them? I got so annoyed with people at work taking all my milk and not leaving any for me so I wrote 'breast milk' on it ...

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You're very right but my view on this topic is that nurses aren't dieticians. When my sedated intensive care patient needs a specific type of feed based on their required calories and electrolyte imbalances, I call the dietician or specialist nutrition team. I'm a nurse and I shouldn't be judged on my size when it's…

How would you know that? I don't know a single nurse who spends their day sitting down. Unless you mean the 5 minutes I spend in the bathroom just getting my head straight after saving a life or doing 56 nasogastric tube feeds on babies in a 13 hour shift.

If I were a bloke, yes.

Brummie and proud!

Cute

Dark haired Jillian Michaels.

You'd be gorgeous if you lost some weight. Might as well have shot me in the face at close range ...

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Exactly. There's a certain poster in here who 'doesn't want a fat nurse'. That's cool because when he drops on the floor and has a cardiac arrest at the gym I will decide I don't like skinny patients and I will walk away ...

I'm a nurse. Not a dietician. I've never once told a patient to lose weight. My job is to love and support people unconditionally in their weakest moments. My job is to save lives whatever condition they're in without prejudice or judgment. Not even considering that I'm a nurse, if I was employing a nurse it would be more…

Well, yes. I do 4 shifts a week and they're 12.5hrs long. Add on another 4hours to account for getting out of bed, showering, preparing lunch and uniform and the journey to work, plus coming home and doing whatever needs doing. That leaves me around 7hours to sleep, maybe less if I have to be sociable and visit a relative…

Thanks everyone for th great advice. I'm back from the gym and 2 sturdy bras later ... I ran for 3.5 minutes at an 8.5km/hr pace. I rested for 90 seconds and managed it again. Now I'm going to use c25k to build up my stamina. I never thought I could run for that long but you're right ... I was sprinting before and that's…

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A lot of great points have got me thinking. Thanks for the input guys. Loving the graph - should probably occupy myself by making one of those rather than weighing every 5 minutes haha! I'm going to try hard not to weigh myself for another week now. I just need to feel comfortable in the idea that I am eating enough/not…

The cardio machines at my gym allow me to input my data and they have heart rate sensors on so I can see how fast my rate is. Based on that it gives me a calories burned reading. As pointed out, it may not be entirely accurate which is why (as seen in my diary) I never eat back ALL of the calories unless I'm starving after…

Thanks for the above posts. It's just that horrible feeling where you're busting your *kitten* trying to get to where you want and it's not as easy as it was before. I am forever logging, at the gym, collapsing onto my bed with sore muscles from gym sessions. Seems like a lot of work when you can't see the benefits. Guess…

Easier said than done. An old thin photo of me isn't enough to keep me motivated, so what else can I try? Not so handy with a tape measure so I'm using an old pair of jeans I'd like to get back into. Also, still doesn't solve where I'm going wrong. I lost weight easier when I didn't exercise. How does that work?

I feel so much better now after reading all those replies. You are a great bunch of people :) Thanks so much. I've never really had a good relationship with her & I feel like it's just another reason for her to have a dig at me. I know she's dealing with her own demons and probably is worried about her surgery so I'll wait…

It took me 2 months, but I started about 232lbs.

Today I'm exactly 2 months into MFP and my loss to date is 9.7kgs. Bearing in mind some days I've gone slightly over on a macro-nutrient and I binge ate over Christmas, so had to lose that back too. Good luck!