5 REAL things I can do when I am angry/ or frustrated beside

joolie3

s Eating!

Food is my mainstay, my rock, my protector - sometimes it is also the rock I throw at myself when I am down on myself, life, or others. These are a few things that I have found that are both useful and work well when I am angry and feeding my face is not an appropriate option! I've shoved amazingly random pieces of food - even my baby's teething biscuits - in my mouth when those feelings start to build and I am trying to push them down. Here are a few things I've found helpful when the temptations surge that are way-healthier than those useless extra calories:

1) Go in my room and take a pillow from my (very likely unmade) bed and beat the living stuffing out of it until the frustration goes away or my hands get too tired. You would be amazed at how quietly you can have a tantrum without anyone knowing or causing any self-injury in this manner;

2)If appropriate and available, walk to my car, drive away somewhere safe (aka NOT a drive-thru window) and park. Roll up all the windows, make sure all doors are locked and no one is around to give me a curious look and SCREAM as loudly and as long as I can. I have done this many, many times. There is the side-effect that I will likely have a sore throat after doing so, however will soooo feel much better;

3)Fingerpaint, preferably with a child. It is virtually impossible to fingerpaint and remain angry too long;

4)MOVE MY BODY! Walk, run, climb stairs until I am numb, sing if possible and whistle loudly: Monday this was what had me in the stairwells at work and circling the parking lots and my calves hurt a bit but I was distracted by my panting and felt at least a little better afterwards;

5)Write it out after I've calmed down a bit. I can write a letter to someone whose hurt me, I can write a letter to myself telling me why I am really a good person, deserving of love, respect and forgiveness. I can write out cuss words in GIANT letters and underline them angrily. I need to get it out - and thenI need to acknowledge whatever it is or whoever it is that is really bothering me and face it. Bringing things out into the light - making sure they are really - testing my beliefs and making sure that I am being fair to all parties and honesty are all things that will keep me from making a snap decision to shove food that I will regret later or that will (even worse) make me in turn angry at myself.

littlewitch1973

LOVE IT!!

I clean. I lock myself in the bathroom, and dont come out until everything sparkles... and I mean EVERYTHING. The screws in the light switch sparkle by the time I'm done. You cant eat when you ahve cleaner all over your hands!! I feel better about my frustration, and happy with a sparkling bathroom! Win-Win!

tpittsley77

The next time I feel the need to stress eat, I will be trying some of these methods. Altho, I will avoid the screaming in my car option or I would have the misfourtune of having the cops show up. This actually happened to me once. Crying on my phone to my friend, while parked in a car at a park, while living out of state. I ended up surrounded by cops. I didn't know that the park was notorious for, as the cop put it to me, "drug use and homosexual acitivites." Needless to say, I will leave that option to you!

cyclerjenn

I clean and use my kick boxing bag. Also just hopping on my bike and taking a long spin is always great also!

littlepinkhearts

treadmill

leahnoelle31

I vacuume the hell out of my house. I love the sound it makes when it sucks stuff up off the floor

lilredhottamale

Great suggestion! I'm going to try it, since there's always cleaning to do!

Soupskin

Soak a towel, wad it up and stick it in the freezer.

Next time you feel that way, take it out and pull it straight.

joolie3

Thanks guys. Today, if I were in the right (meaning entirely wrong) place, I think I would have eaten treebark...or the Easter Jellybeans - it was just that rotten of a stinky day. I walked the dog and took my toddler with me and we ran down the sidewalk...it helped.