Teacher summer weight loss club/school year loss and maintenance support group

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All I hear is excuses. If you are serious you can start mimicking your school schedule now to prepare for success during the year. Teachers are not the only people with these problems. You can do it, stop using your job as an excuse.

If it was so easy, wouldn’t everyone be fit?

No it's not easy. I'm a teacher as well and I made excuses for years. You CAN do it. Whether you choose to is another story.

Ok, please share what you did. TEACH us.

I would be a p*ss poor teacher if I simply told my students “All I hear is excuses.” when they hit an obstacle. If this is how you reach, I get why you have time to eat lunch and exercise daily.

You'd be a piss poor teacher if you said your students"can't" do anything. If you need help, great, but you CAN do anything, just like your students. I'm glad I didn't have you as a teacher, because I'd never be able to overcome anything since excuses are okay with you.

Why do you think I tried to start this group? I realized that just because the things I had already tried didn’t work, doesn’t mean there aren’t other things that would work. Most teachers support trying to find different solutions rather than sticking with ones that aren’t working. I guess you rely on a one-sized for all method with your students and write off as quitters those that it doesn’t suit. I’m glad my kids with SN don’t have you as a teacher.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I meal prepped. I took extra steps throughout the day. I made sure to go the gym at night. I eat healthy snacks (fruit, celery, etc while I do admin work. I drink plenty of water. I make food that doesn't need to be microwaved. When kids go to PE I go for a walk.

Sounds like you teach ES and therefore do not have students in for lunch for extended time accommodations or extra help. This is common at the secondary level. A Sunday afternoon prepped meal that doesn’t need heating will still go uneaten if you spent twenty minutes as a live reader and scribe for a student with SN who couldn’t finish a test during class.

How do you handle the bathroom with the extra water?

WOW! You don't let your special needs students eat lunch just because they didn't finish a test. That is ridiculous, you should be fired ASAP. I let my special need students eat lunch and come back when they finish. Starving them isn't going to help them on tests.

[Anonymous]

Throughout the school year we have seen teachers devouring donuts, hamburgers, pizzas and cakes and sandwiches. They seemed to be paying more attention to the crappy food than to supervising students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I meal prepped. I took extra steps throughout the day. I made sure to go the gym at night. I eat healthy snacks (fruit, celery, etc while I do admin work. I drink plenty of water. I make food that doesn't need to be microwaved. When kids go to PE I go for a walk.

It sounds like you have more time to yourself during the day than some of us have. Taking extra steps throughout the day--where? In your classroom? Anywhere else and someone needs to be teaching my kids while I'm out walking somewhere? The copy machine and office are upstairs and on the complete opposite end of the building than my room, so I'm taking lots of steps to walk there but I have to make my trips efficient. I can't take multiple trips to the office just for fun. There's just not time for that. When my kids are in specials I'm in planning and data meetings, so taking a walk isn't a possibility at that time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I meal prepped. I took extra steps throughout the day. I made sure to go the gym at night. I eat healthy snacks (fruit, celery, etc while I do admin work. I drink plenty of water. I make food that doesn't need to be microwaved. When kids go to PE I go for a walk.

Where do you walk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I meal prepped. I took extra steps throughout the day. I made sure to go the gym at night. I eat healthy snacks (fruit, celery, etc while I do admin work. I drink plenty of water. I make food that doesn't need to be microwaved. When kids go to PE I go for a walk.

Sounds like you teach ES and therefore do not have students in for lunch for extended time accommodations or extra help. This is common at the secondary level. A Sunday afternoon prepped meal that doesn’t need heating will still go uneaten if you spent twenty minutes as a live reader and scribe for a student with SN who couldn’t finish a test during class.

How do you handle the bathroom with the extra water?

WOW! You don't let your special needs students eat lunch just because they didn't finish a test. That is ridiculous, you should be fired ASAP. I let my special need students eat lunch and come back when they finish. Starving them isn't going to help them on tests.

You’re the one being ridiculous. They eat while they do their extended time. This is the norm at every middle school I’ve taught in for students w/o resource class. Most have 50% extra time. That usually works out to 20 extra minutes. They bring their lunch to the classroom and sit with the teacher to finish. Spreading that over two days is too stressful for a lot of students because they don’t want to give up lunch multiple days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Throughout the school year we have seen teachers devouring donuts, hamburgers, pizzas and cakes and sandwiches. They seemed to be paying more attention to the crappy food than to supervising students.

Who is bringing these foods to the teachers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I meal prepped. I took extra steps throughout the day. I made sure to go the gym at night. I eat healthy snacks (fruit, celery, etc while I do admin work. I drink plenty of water. I make food that doesn't need to be microwaved. When kids go to PE I go for a walk.

Sounds like you teach ES and therefore do not have students in for lunch for extended time accommodations or extra help. This is common at the secondary level. A Sunday afternoon prepped meal that doesn’t need heating will still go uneaten if you spent twenty minutes as a live reader and scribe for a student with SN who couldn’t finish a test during class.

How do you handle the bathroom with the extra water?

WOW! You don't let your special needs students eat lunch just because they didn't finish a test. That is ridiculous, you should be fired ASAP. I let my special need students eat lunch and come back when they finish. Starving them isn't going to help them on tests.

You’re the one being ridiculous. They eat while they do their extended time. This is the norm at every middle school I’ve taught in for students w/o resource class. Most have 50% extra time. That usually works out to 20 extra minutes. They bring their lunch to the classroom and sit with the teacher to finish. Spreading that over two days is too stressful for a lot of students because they don’t want to give up lunch multiple days.

Wait your kids can eat but you can't? Am I missing something. How about this, when your students stay for extra time and are eating during the test, you can eat too. Wow so simple

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throughout the school year we have seen teachers devouring donuts, hamburgers, pizzas and cakes and sandwiches. They seemed to be paying more attention to the crappy food than to supervising students.

Who is bringing these foods to the teachers?

Teachers themselves

[Anonymous]

I teach high school and you guys are making teaching seem impossible. I have a lunch and a whole prep period every day. Not difficult to eat lunch or use the restroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throughout the school year we have seen teachers devouring donuts, hamburgers, pizzas and cakes and sandwiches. They seemed to be paying more attention to the crappy food than to supervising students.

Who is bringing these foods to the teachers?

Teachers themselves

Teachers are bringing hamburgers in the morning and eating them during clssses? Or are they trying to eat lunch in the afternoon classes after having given their lunch up for an IEP meeting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throughout the school year we have seen teachers devouring donuts, hamburgers, pizzas and cakes and sandwiches. They seemed to be paying more attention to the crappy food than to supervising students.

Who is bringing these foods to the teachers?

Teachers themselves

Teachers are bringing hamburgers in the morning and eating them during clssses? Or are they trying to eat lunch in the afternoon classes after having given their lunch up for an IEP meeting?

You only have a few IEPs a month. Not everyday.

[Anonymous]

They stop by the grocery store before coming to the workplace. When kids arrive early these teachers have they mouth and hands full of food. Yuck, they touch kids worksheets and folders with the fingers they use as toothpicks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They stop by the grocery store before coming to the workplace. When kids arrive early these teachers have their mouths and hands full of food. Yuck, they touch kids worksheets and folders with the fingers they use as toothpicks

[Anonymous]

You sure are a bunch of positive minded teachers.