Issues - how do you deal?

Well, I hope I'm back from the side trip of my journey. Kiddo left about a month ago in a huff, plus I was sick. Work is stressful, and I feel like I'm not good enough. My thinking is fuzzy and I hurt all the time. New doc thinks I have Hyper parathyroid, which accounts for the depression, body aches and mental slowness. I want it fixed ASAP! Next appt is late May, after another blood test for my vit D levels.

Kiddo's drama took my focus off me. I feel it coming back again. Then again, I swam yesterday for the 1st time in 10 days, and was so tired that I spent most of today napping to catch up.

Since I quit smoking cigarettes, I have been eating more. Doh. When I try NOT to eat, I don't know how to deal with my feelings, so I'm a royal ***** How the frick do you guys deal with this sort of stuff? I'm horribly codependent too, but too tired to go to a meeting after work.

Any advice is appreciated. Now I have to try to find the energy to empty the DW so I can clean the kicthen and cook a healthy dinner instead of sending DH out for takeout.

well, the kitchen got clean. We did do takeout, but a fairly healthy one - Love Love Teriaki. I ate too much rice - I think I am going to explode. This is a hard day. I still need to wash a bra for work tomorrow.

How do I deal?  Not very well actually.  When I try not to eat I am a major sourpuss too.  One thing that does help me is planning out what I will eat in a day and not straying from it.  If I don't have to make a lot of food decisions when I am actually hungry, I tend to do better.  Another thing that's really helped with negative energy lately is really pushing myself at the gym.  Get those good endorphins flowing and exhaust myself a little bit to get rid of the tension.  I have a lot of pent up angst and worry and tension and exercise is helping me learn to let go of it.  Also, regular exercise is giving me more energy.  But honestly, this is the first time in my life that exercise feels like a good thing instead of torture. 

Yeah, exercise does help me too. I haven't yet figured out how to fit it in when I'm working, though. Before work is when I have the most energy, but even though I set my clock for 6AM, I'm lucky if I get up by 7. If I'm not in the pool by 7:15, my swim runs up against the senior's 8AM water ex, which takes all 4 lanes. GOtta hand it ot hem, they aren't shy about kicking me out.

Noon might work, but the branch of my club closest to my office keeps their lap pool really cold, and I'm a cold water wimp, even wirth all this insulation.

And after work? Tues & Thurs my club has no open lanes until 8 pm. Plus I am mostly too tired to go. I do go when it is really hot as we don't have AC in the house, so I am more than happy to go to the pool. 

Who exercises at what time of the day - and why that time? 

I'd like to do it in the morning but since surgery I am entirely too tired.  We mostly go late in the evening just because that's what our schedule allows, or if I am exercising at home its just whenever I can grab a little time.

Hello Fellow Oregonian! How do I deal? I just do the best I can from day to day. What more could you truly ask of yourself? What I don't or no longer do is beat myself up over every little thing like I once did and get off track...permanently. So even though things are tough--you just keep going. Don't allow these situations make you lose sight of what your goal is...because you ARE good enough! I wish you the best. :)

I know I am late posting to this but want to offer my 2 cents. I could never deal very well for very long on a diet prior to surgery. It just did not work. I was very worried about this when I had my surgery. What was going to happen when I could not temper all of my emotions, good or bad with food. Would I run amock. For some reason since surgery, people say while my energy level is very high, I am much more calmer. I also think I am more direct in my conversations and in voicing my opinions good or bad. I am  myself just more so and more intense about things. It is really all good. I am just surprised sometimes at how I really do feel about things since I don't moderate everything through food. I am very impressed that you have quit smoking. I am not sure I would have had the fortitude to do so. I think you sould just concentrate on improving your health to get ready for surgery. Where are you in your process? Hugs. Jo