It's official...
I am a stress eater. I eat A LOT when I am under stress. I finally became aware of this at work yesterday when at the end of the day I was STILL eating my lunch. I don't think I stopped eating all day.
I know where my stress is coming from, that's obvious. I think I'm also feeling the stress that my daughter is feeling. We just found out, the day before yeseterday, that this summer my daughter was over at her friends house (the house of the Trolley Square shooter) and she saw him (the shooter) pull a knife on his mom and try to stab her and then watched her friend try to get in the middle of it to stop him. She didn't tell any of this to us, but has been talking to her teacher at school (she's almost 9). She's seeing a counselor next week. We didn't realize this event was affecting her like this, she isn't saying a word about it to us.
Things in life happen that I can't control...BUT, I can control my eating and I need to figure out how to do that.
I do feel bad that I said I'm glad they killed the shooter. I guess I should say I'm glad they stopped him from shooting and killing more people. His family is not to blame for this and I can't even imagine the pain they are feeling. No one deserves to go through this.
Well, I'm off...I get/have to work today...a beautiful Saturday. I'm VERY HAPPY that we have Monday off. Happy Presidents day to everyone!!!
Jenn