To expect fat nurses to have some insight?.

Fat people also don’t.

Yes it is an addiction. Not an addiction to healthy food, an addiction to shit food. It is eating too much of that shit food and becoming fat. Your brain does not want healthy food.
My point is stop blaming tiredness, overworking, no time, stress, no healthy food available, the government, big bones, genetics, no breaks… they are EXCUSES as to why you are fat and they are NOT true. You are fat because you have an addiction to food, the same as any addiction. There is no need to make excuses. You have BED and you eat too much of the wrong food. You are not fat because there is nothing healthy in the vending machine.

I don't think you really understand how BED or any other disordered eating works. It's an addiction it's not about us poor stupid fat people with no willpower.
Do you believe drug addicts and alcoholics CHOOSE their addictions, that if they just tried really really hard like you do they'd be just dandy.
Or do you reserve that for the fatties only

I’ve yet to see any evidence certain posters on this thread are thinking at all!

And it’s clear you think that’s why people are overweight. That they’re “diving into a family sized bag of crisps and eating 6bars of chocolate” you are either goady or one of the most ill informed people I’ve come across on Mumsnet.

It’s even more normal for them to gain weight- like everyone keeps saying different people react differently in different situations- this is what needs looking into, not blaming or shaming people because they react one way not another. I’m not sure what is so hard to understand. The causes of weight gain are complex and multifaceted. We haven’t even touched on complex area of the guy biome

I hope they don’t but I do hope the judgmental people who have comments about the weight of lifestyle of any HCP gets put to the back of the queue. There are plenty of us who are very appreciative and really couldn’t give a tiny rats ass what their HCP looks like.

Why can’t you take in healthy food from home?

Probably because we are currently so busy and so short staffed that many nights I don't finisn work until 10pm and then either get home at 11pm and straight to bed in order to be on the unit again for my clinic starting at 8.30am so have no time to prepare this amazing lunch I'm supposed to take into work.

Or I just don't bother going home. Like tonight. On call. V busy. O point leaving the unit. So it's the vending machine which, btw, has no healthy options. Of course we should do something about that but it's low on the list of priorities after trying to get through another week.

@youcantellalotofthingsabouttheflowers
I totally agree with everything you say.
And it frustrates me when people say to me"it's ok for you , you're not overweight"as if it's all so easy. I could dive into a family sized bag of crisps and 6 bars of chocolate right now. It takes an almost overwhelming amount of will power not to. But the difference is, I don't.

Honestly I hope all the overweight nurses quit. Would love to see how you'd cope if that happened and you couldn't even get in to see one because there's not enough staff.

Jesus. If this thread is how slim nurses think, I would rather be seen by an overweight nurse.

No, I am talking about excuses as to WHY they cannot choose something healthier. Stress, overwork, no time, nothing healthy on offer.. blah blah blah. No I have BED and I eat crap food because that’s what my brain wants… huge difference. One is honest and one is not.

vast majority of overweight people are not fat from taking meds.

Yanbu I'd find it hard to look at them with a straight face

@Mirabai

Sometimes you have no choice but to put medication in your 'gob' which causes weight gain.

Binge eating disorders are real and many people have them but be honest about it.

You make BED sound like a choice. People DO admit to having EDs but they’re not believed.

But is a lot of nurses.

I still don’t get all the excuses. You can be tired, run off your feet, stressed, no healthy food available, not able to exercise etc etc but you CAN choose a healthier option. It takes the same time to eat a banana as it does to eat a bar of chocolate. You CHOOSE To eat the chocolate. Too tired to make food when you go home so go to McDonalds, keep your fridge stocked with healthy ready meals which take 5 mins in the microwave which actually takes less time than going through the drive thru. It’s the excuses, so many excuses. ANY eating choice you make can be a healthy one if you want it to be. It’s your CHOICE and yours alone what you put in your gob. I would actually applaud someone who said.. you know what, I don’t like healthy food so I choose not to eat it And that’s why I am fat. That’s nobody’s business but the lame excuses as to why you can’t do that are ridiculous. Some people on this thread are very honest about that and others blame everyone else except themselves. Binge eating disorders are real and many people have them but be honest about it.

Which is not the majority. Anyway, I’m off to bed.

Well it doesn't really.
Police officers for example, commit crime but advocate the law. Does it suddenly mean that their advice to abide by the law becomes inaffective/ bad advice because they don't subscribe to the same advice? Of course it doesn't, It just means for whatever reason that person is not making the best choices for themselves on an individual level.

This thread is full of very uneducated opinions. Food illicits similar actions in the brain as Cocaine. I don't think it would be unreasonable to take a stab in the dark and presume you are dealing with a form of addiction/disordered eating when somebody is severely over weight. It's not just a case of cutting down on calories and eating the right food, they have an entire life and mindset to reform, losing weight would be the easy part.

Not if you're taking a tonne of meds for your mental health!

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The point is it does in some people. When I’m very busy and don’t get a chance to eat I lose rather than gain weight - the same is true for many people. It’s normal for people to lose weight at times of high stress - job, divorce, house move, bereavement etc.