OT...

My car died on the way home from school tonight. I just paid the damn thing off last week and now this. I think it's the transmission, I'm gonna have to call my auto shop tomorrow. Thank God I have AAA, otherwise I don't know how I would have gotten the car, my daughter, and me home. But now I get to figure out how I'm gonna get to and from school (30 miles away) and around town (small town, no buses) and how I'm gonna come up with the mucho bucks to fix my stupid car. (I'm a poor college student/single mom) Right now I'm drowning my sorrows in chocolate and feeling sorry for myself. I want to find a hole to crawl into until life looks better.

Awwe Heather, sorry to hear about your car.  My sons going through the same thing.  Maybe you can find a mechanic that you can make payments too??  Not sure if anyone does that any more or not, but it's worth a shot.

I know this is easier said than done, I do it all the time myself, but is that chocolate going to change anything?  I just remember how that burger made me feel last week and I knew it was wrong to eat it before I even ate it.  Sure it helped a craving, but the remorse was awful.  Plus the scale tipped a pound the next day from it.  Put down the chocolate, back up and take a deep breath.  You'll work things out, step by step, and that chocolate is not gonna help you any, if anything it will make you more pissed off!

Oh honey I hate to hear this!! Seriously Heather...DROP THE CHOCOLATE GIRL! It isn't going to do any good and in the end of your eating your just going to hate yourself for it! PM me if you need to talk

Stac

Heather that sucks and all I can say is I feel your pain...

My life has sucked ass since the last week in December.  All I want to do is fall off track and eat anything and everything I see.

It's hard hunny.  I know.

Heather, I have "car trouble trauma" and "repair shop phobia" so I can relate. The chocolate you ate or might eat along with that rotten tranny too shall pass. Sometimes life sucks. What you did/do during that time is less important than what you do right after. Despite turning too food, you are not isolating or staying away from this support system. So when you have the strength, put down the chocolate, give yourself a pat on the back and realize what you have accomplished so far. Hugs and strength.

Marky

Dude! I have been there...my honda died at my night college and long pained story short, it took like 2 years to get fixed. I got rides from class friends...soemtimes i had to ride my bike to be where they worked so they did not have to go out of their way to get me.

Hang in there..I was lower low working class most of my life. I could not tell you exactly how I made it thru most stuff, but all i can say is the sun alwasy rose and set and my problems got worked out one by one.

Destructive behaviors like over eating & stomping around my kids being angry or worse, helpless were what i fell back on, too. Does not help a thing! Did not fix my car! Did not pay the light bill! That type of stuff only added to the pile of stress.

AND when i think of how I handled some stuff, I cringe. Much better to only whine a bit, then dry your tears and throw those shoulders back and work it out.

Stop it, my friend!

Neecee perfectly put! I agree. The chocolate, while a worthwhile temporary solution, will only bring the LASTING PAIN of weight gain. In the end, excess chocolate causes more problems than it solves (kinda like alcohol! lol)

I feel for you!! As a fellow person struggling with work, life, school, bills ... life is certainly difficult these days. You can't control the situation as its happened to you, but you can certainly control your reaction to the stress.

 *hugs of support* from afar. You will get through this. This too shall pass.