Stressed and Getting Healthy! new group

Count me in!

I've got problems with stress/anxiety. So does my boyfriend. Living together and trying to help each other is like two drowning people trying to save one another. We try our best but we are still going crazy! (I feel like our relationship is not stressed, though, thankfully!)

I have a hard time working/housekeeping/staying healthy/schoolwork all in the same week. It is too easy for me to 'skip' my exercises because I am 'too busy' then fall asleep from being too stressed... then not be able to sleep at night.. urg it's a horrible cycle!

I feel -so- good when I do exercise, I try to remind myself that when I am postponing it. I have lost nearly 30 pounds this year and I am quite proud of that.

I hope this group will help all of us ease some stresses and see that others are going through it too. Maybe we can find a coping strategy and share with each other

Would love to join! I have always suffered from anxiety most of my life. Have had panic attacks. This group will be very helpful :happy:

I'll join. I suffer from social anxiety/ phobia.

I did lose alot of weight last year, but as my fear over leaving the house has increased so has my lack of exercise. Anxiety tends to make me feel sick at the time but then after a panic attack I'm left exhausted and wanting to eat everything in sight.

So what day do you want us to report our weigh in? I don't have a set day that I weigh myself. What is everyone else's starting weight and goal weight? My goals for the week are to get in all my vitamins and protein! Hope everyone has a good week!

Stephanie E

Sunday sounds good to me, although the scare didn't. It read 195.8.

Stephanie E

You know how your body usually tells you something when you start craving something? What is it trying to tell me when I'm craving ice cream? I don't even really like ice cream, but I cannot seem to avoid McDonald's 49 cent ice cream cones!!!! I know I used to crave ice when my iron was low. But I just finished 10 weeks of iron infusions, so I know it's not that! I'm guessing stress because I started back to college after being out for twenty years!

Hope everyone else is doing better in this challenge than me!!!!

Stephanie E

Zombella have you tried to schedule your day? As in 'work 8-5' 'relax 6-6:30' 'workout 6:30-7:30'? anything like that? sometimes it helps me destress if I see what lays ahead of me in the day.

Nice to meet you Melissa! I never really think of this site as a diet. just kinda a limit to how MUCH I eat instead of what kinds. So I just eat and eat and log it in, and when I hit my calorie goal? I drink water and whine (that was the first 2 weeks) now months and months later I find it fun to log in the food and see how the macro goals fit in.

I hope you do really well here! I don't really have one true friend. I count my boyfriend as my best friend but I see you mentioned you have a husband, so other than my guy, I don't really have anyone close to me. It does bother me a lot that I haven't found that kind of friendship, and I am continually putting myself out there in hopes I can find a BFF :P

I hope sharing here with us will help you find new ways to cope with your anxiety!

Anxiety regarding heights became an issue a few years ago. It never had been an issue before at all. Last year we went to the falls, the big one is 177 feet. I looked over it and felt a lot of anxiety, I felt dizzy, and disconnected. I forced myself to keep looking over till this anxiety got better. It didn't fully go away but was better, so I took my hike down around and under. A bit of anxiety, but I felt connected to the environment. Two days ago we went back. Now that I have a hrm I was curious as to how many calories I would burn hiking the falls. When I walked up and looked over the edge of the 177 foot fall, I felt no anxiety at all. I hiked the whole thing, and never felt discomfort. I credit a lot of this too take flax seed oil capsules. I have seen them help take the edge off my anxiety a lot.

Last night I had to go to OHSU in Portland, it sits up on a hill over looking Portland, I looked over and out, and was a bit discomforted, but not much anxiety. I got into the elevetor (which leads to anxiety in it self) but went up 10 floors and there was a bit more discomfort, mostly do to the idea of the elevator so high. I didn't like being up there, and earthquake most definitely popped into my head, but the fact that I didn't feel panic when I looked out and over, or was in the elevator, or spent 2 hours on the tenth floor, is HUGE. Again I believe the flax seed oil capsules have helped me a lot with anxiety. I had more anxiety when walking through the parkade at 10 at night cause we lost our car. lol. But still not a state of panic. I thought more about the calories i was burning walking around and around the levels of the parkade.

Remember Sarah, even a good walk is going to your brain good, not just your body. Which is ultra helpful with school.. I do not envy you though, but don't be hard on yourself, it's tough!