This support group is going great! You can always count on DCUM.

Anonymous wrote: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

You sound crazy.

Anonymous wrote:5 am for 30-45 minutes is the only time/energy for excessive. Not hard when you fall asleep at 9pm.

I do 1.5 hours on Sat/Sun. HS teacher here, happy with my weight.

The contractual lunch thing is a joke. I am obligated to students who want extra help and to run a club. I eat while i do lunch help.

I'm a high school teacher and I make lunch a priority. There's plenty of time in class to help kids. They need their lunch, you need yours.

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The contractual lunch thing is a joke. I am obligated to students who want extra help and to run a club. I eat while i do lunch help.

I believe you. That sounds like a union issue. You are obligated to basically magic up some extra time to provide extra help or accommodations. You shouldn't have to give up your own lunch time to do so. This is what unions are for.

Virginia isn’t a union state

For all the people knocking the teachers, I don’t think any of them are saying the only reason they can’t lose weight is because they are teachers. They are saying they have some unique circumstances that make it a little more challenging. The OP is simply suggesting a DCUM support group to start some good habits to carry through into the school year. If you’re not interested in participating you don’t need to. This is not a competition for whose day is more challenging.

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The contractual lunch thing is a joke. I am obligated to students who want extra help and to run a club. I eat while i do lunch help.

I believe you. That sounds like a union issue. You are obligated to basically magic up some extra time to provide extra help or accommodations. You shouldn't have to give up your own lunch time to do so. This is what unions are for.

5 am for 30-45 minutes is the only time/energy for excessive. Not hard when you fall asleep at 9pm.

I do 1.5 hours on Sat/Sun. HS teacher here, happy with my weight.

The contractual lunch thing is a joke. I am obligated to students who want extra help and to run a club. I eat while i do lunch help.

Anonymous wrote:I'm literally a teacher who has given several suggestions, just to have everything shot down as pretty much impossible. Meal prep is the biggest thing, you HAVE to find time to eat healthy, simple as that. You HAVE to work out at night a few days a week.

Or morning. But yeah, I agree. It’s not impossible, it’s definitely harder for us to do things like stay hydrated during the day or eat smaller more frequent meals, but it’s doable.

I’m not sure where you work, but you should check your contract about your lunch period. In my district, we are contractually guaranteed a 45 minute duty free lunch period. I treat that time as sacred and use it to eat a sandwich and take a walk. I can usually walk 1-2 miles during that time. I go with a couple of coworkers. If that doesn’t work, you could try going for a short run or walk right after dismissal and then come back to finish up your prep for the next day. I plan to try that next school year. I also lost weight by not eating any more of the kids’ treats or any of the extra food that is always around. I teach elementary school so there are always cupcakes for someone’s birthday! I stopped eating those and I stopped buying candy to give my students as treats. I would buy it for them but end up eating it myself!

I agree that meal prep is important. Also, being less efficient with copying and other errands so that you take the stairs an extra time or two during the school day. Consider using a large exercise ball as your desk chair, too.

Good luck, OP! Try to ignore the snark on here!

I'm literally a teacher who has given several suggestions, just to have everything shot down as pretty much impossible. Meal prep is the biggest thing, you HAVE to find time to eat healthy, simple as that. You HAVE to work out at night a few days a week.

I’m OP. I started this thread because a friend had success in a nurses’ weight loss support group. I asked her why it worked and she mentioned the ability to crowd source ways around the challenges nurses uniquely face. She didn’t mention anything about nasty comments and discouraging remarks. Not sure if all the cruel replies above are from real teachers. Some seem very juvenile. I don’t know why anyone would come onto a weight loss support thread to tell people they want to be fat and lazy. Either way, if you are not interested in thinking outside the box about how to lose weight as a teacher, please go start your own thread about fat and lazy teachers.

I think some of you would just be happier being fat. There's obviously an excuse for every question and only teachers have inconvenient work schedules.

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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.

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

Have you ever provided live reader and scribe accommodations? No, you can’t eat while providing those if you only have a half an hour to give the child twenty minutes of extended time.

Your right, it's impossible for a teacher to eat healthy and be in shape, unless they are bad teachers.

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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.

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

Have you ever provided live reader and scribe accommodations? No, you can’t eat while providing those if you only have a half an hour to give the child twenty minutes of extended time.