I arrived home from my family trip to see my newly finished kitchen floor.
It was beautiful.
I remember thinking to myself..I’m finally getting this fixer-upper to somewhere approaching respectability.
I wasn’t planning on doing the floor, but the old tiles were splintering, and with Ro Wilder crawling, they were becoming a safety hazard.
So I felt really good that everything was finished and was done really well.
Of course that was Friday Night…And this is Sunday Morning.
And this Morning this was the scene in my basement:
I’ll spare you the picture of the pool of water on the ground, but needless to say, I’m not a happy camper.
I’m also not fasting.
I WAS fasting..
In fact when I found the pool in the basement I was about 17 hours into a fast
By 20 hours into my fast I was eating.
Why?
Simple: Stress….horrible, illogical stress.
Eating will not change the fact that water seems to be flowing from somewhere (I’m guessing roof) into the house, along the support beam and finally pooling in the corner of the basement.
Eating will not change the fact that the carpet in the living room is wet.
Eating will also not change the fact that I simply can’t fix this on my own.
But it’s a stress response, and we all have it.
Luckily for me, I’m usually good at handling stress. On a day to day basis, I’m pretty stress free.
So stress doesn’t really affect my eating.
But I pity people in stressful jobs, stressful relationships, stressful life situations…because I know they are probably also overeating.
And I don’t have any reasonable solutions either.
Except for one.
If you can get rid of the stress, do it.
Quit your job, leave the relationship, do whatever needs to be done within reason.
And, if you are like me and have to wait helplessly doing your best to problem solve until the experts arrive, realize that it’s out of your control…and remember to breath.
Stress…it’s a vague thing, but I will tell you this…. In my opinion too much stress is the antithesis of Health.
A little bit of stress is good, but too much stress will send you to your grave early, and probably overweight.
Do your best to remove it from your life.
BP
P.S. If you’ve been holding off on purchasing your very own copy of Eat Stop Eat, now would be a great time to go ahead and pick it up! 😉
