I am a nurse . This means I spend a great deal of time taking care of other people. I guess I never thought of at what cost to myself. Nurses as a general rule get a lot of satisfaction from taking good care of their patients. Why do we do so little to take care of ourselves ?
In 16 years I have worked in a variety of settings in the hospital. A place where "healthy" should be a standard.
Interestingly there is a great percentage of nurses who have been smoking for years, eating terrible food and continuing to gain weight. All at the time we as a group tell our patients how they should take care of themselves.
Weird, huh?
I can't judge what others do, but I can see them doing things I did, and I know how it turned out.
I am traveling down a the path to change... I have gone quite a few "miles" already, but it is a long and ever changing trip. I really don't know what got me to 358 pounds , but I can say what has changed to get me to 277 so far...
Tonight's Word :
CHANGE : to make something different from what it is , or what it would be if left alone.
( That's awesome ,isn't it ?)
I too have often wondered this and am making the same journey as you, as you well know. I have been an RN for 18 years and have spent most of the time on nights. I was once 268 lbs and since I am only 5'5" that made me more round than any other kind of shape. I seem to be holding at 170 now but am attempting to get down to 150. The journey has been long and fraught with pit falls and joyous mile stones. I hope that through this blog we can tell our story and help others make the same journey without the same pit falls. More of my story to come....
ReplyDeleteHOO-AHH!! You Go, Sis! :)
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