how do you cope with stress? does it effect your diet

toutmonpossible

Stress. Meh, I shut down food wise, I eat nothing.

I react that way when I'm super-stressed -- the kind of situation where you literally don't have time to eat or drink and feel guilty going to the bathroom. When I'm moderately stressed, I'm usually bored as well and I sometimes overeat. That's why I try to keep my weight low. So things never get crazily out of hand.

I have a multi-day food-filled family event coming up soon and at first my goal was to lose some weight. But in the proceeding weeks I have a great deal of stressful, dull work. I realize it's probably unrealistic for me to try to lose weight AND work during that time, something has to give. I've revised my goal to try to work out three or four times a week at the gym, to not do too much damage with stress eating, and to try not to gain weight before the event.