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Way down (triggers)
| Sun, 01-16-2005 - 4:21pm |
I'm in another downward spiral that I can't seem to stop.
| Sun, 01-16-2005 - 4:21pm |
I'm in another downward spiral that I can't seem to stop.
Don't despair about your weight. You were doing great and just because you got sidelined for a while doesn't mean you can't get back on track. I gained 3 pounds recently---not over the holidays---but since I've been back to work. Stress eating at it's worst!!
As for not having had an SO for so long----I think the plan is for you to go to Ireland and meet your true love there. Sound good?
Debbie
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Mary)))))))))))))))))))))))))
I can't say much about all the things you are dealing with too, but I do have a bunch of hugs and a lot of prayers for you.
Same here, Mary...I'll keep you in my thoughts. You have made it so far even just this year, as hard as it may be to see right now...you can make it through this too. I'm sorry to hear that you're going through such a hard time...hang in there, and keep focused on the things that you love--keep planning your trip to Ireland, working on your romance novel, and listening to that great music--and I know things will turn around for you.
Hugs,
Rose
Mary: I wish I could read your mind to see IF you just wanted to vent, or did you want some possible suggestions, so alas, I thought about this yesterday when I read your post, and just now so don't read any further IF you want no suggestions, but just trying to think, OK, I have and are a stress eater, and what would my therapist tell me to do if I was you?
OK, the great thing about your situation is you aren't stuck to that area at all, you could find a different job and move anywhere, you don't have a house to sell, an apartment lease to break, no husband or kids that would preclude you from moving, so you could go anywhere, that is a blessing some of us on the board that would look for a job don't have.
I knew a lady years ago that wanted some extra cash and she got a second job to make some extra money, just a cashier at a store so they were able to give her flexible hours, just a suggestion.
I met my husband through a newspaper personal ad 20 years ago, and it sure worked out for me.
If you find the structure of wt watchers isn't enough to help you deal with your stress eating, talk to your therapist please, maybe something like overeaters anonymous, or I can't remember once if you shared there was alcohol abuse with anyone in your past, but if there was ,there is always alanon as maybe there is feelings or how you deal with things that were caused by someone's drinking way back then. I can't begin to say how much alanon has helped me and here the alcoholic dad in my life has been dead since 1993, I can't praise it enough.
And I know you love to write, but writing a romance novel maybe stirring all those feelings up inside, so maybe your therapist can help you settle those thoughts down when you quit writing on a certain chapter.
I know my therapist and I talk about everyting, from soup to nuts, from my job, my eating for the wrong reasons, even sex and the addictive ways I have used to deal with things before. She is so adamant on having several support people in your life and as hard as it is for me to reach out, she is so right on that too.
PLEASE know all I wrote above was because I care for you, and I have abused food since early childhood, without my food binging I probably would have tried suicide again and I wouldn't even be alive.
take care of yourself, love, Josie.
Big hugs to you Mary. I'm sorry everything is up in the air for you, hope things get better for you soon. always thinking about ya. ((((HUGS))))
Donna