Stress and Eating
PhearlessPhreaks
Posts: 890 Member
Hi, I'm new here... formal introduction and backstory aside, I need to vent.
It has been such a stressful day, and I can't seem to help myself from eating all the wrong things. My husband has been away on a business trip and is flying home tonight, so I'd made a gameplan and a list of things I wanted to get done today so we can just relax tomorrow. Since his flight doesn't get in until 2300, I thought I'd take the yoga class offered at my gym- I've been wanting to try it, but haven't gotten to it because it's later than we normally go. So I planned the day around that, getting everything done and taking my daughters for a walk to put them down for a later than normal nap.
Well, my list isn't done and I have two little girls who refuse to nap and have been fussy and difficult all morning (they're 2 and 8mo) and I'm seriously stressing. This is not how the day was supposed to go!!!!! Lunch ended up being a combination of doritios, pretzel pieces and tea cookies... easiest things to reach for. I know better. I know I need to eat a decent amount of protein in the morning to keep myself from noshing at lunchtime, but I was so tired, I just jumped into my housework list- I wanted to get it all done because I had anticipated taking a nap along with the girls this afternoon... I've been up since 5am, and I know I won't be getting to bed tonight before midnight or so.
I'm really not good about plans going to ****- it stresses me out when things don't happen the way they're supposed to- yeah, I know, that's life... but I was already tired, kids were being difficult, and it's just overwhelming. Even more frustrating is this is coming after an entire week of awesome, stress-free self control. It's maddening. I'm so frustrated with myself and this day and I really want to take a nap, but that's so not productive and I need to get the rest of things done...
This **** might be easier if I weren't such a stressball.
Thanks for letting me get that out!
It has been such a stressful day, and I can't seem to help myself from eating all the wrong things. My husband has been away on a business trip and is flying home tonight, so I'd made a gameplan and a list of things I wanted to get done today so we can just relax tomorrow. Since his flight doesn't get in until 2300, I thought I'd take the yoga class offered at my gym- I've been wanting to try it, but haven't gotten to it because it's later than we normally go. So I planned the day around that, getting everything done and taking my daughters for a walk to put them down for a later than normal nap.
Well, my list isn't done and I have two little girls who refuse to nap and have been fussy and difficult all morning (they're 2 and 8mo) and I'm seriously stressing. This is not how the day was supposed to go!!!!! Lunch ended up being a combination of doritios, pretzel pieces and tea cookies... easiest things to reach for. I know better. I know I need to eat a decent amount of protein in the morning to keep myself from noshing at lunchtime, but I was so tired, I just jumped into my housework list- I wanted to get it all done because I had anticipated taking a nap along with the girls this afternoon... I've been up since 5am, and I know I won't be getting to bed tonight before midnight or so.
I'm really not good about plans going to ****- it stresses me out when things don't happen the way they're supposed to- yeah, I know, that's life... but I was already tired, kids were being difficult, and it's just overwhelming. Even more frustrating is this is coming after an entire week of awesome, stress-free self control. It's maddening. I'm so frustrated with myself and this day and I really want to take a nap, but that's so not productive and I need to get the rest of things done...
This **** might be easier if I weren't such a stressball.
Thanks for letting me get that out!
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