Stress is Bad for My Waistline

This isn ' t a good week. (I swear I do have good weeks, just not right now.) The reasons why it isn ' t a good week is that I had an MRI Monday night so I was up way too late - meaning after midnight. Today I have a deep cleaning at the periodontist. This means they will inject Novocaine and then scrape way under my gums. I expect I will have soup or scrambled eggs for dinner. Then tomorrow night I have the sleep lab so I don ' t expect to get a good night ' s sleep again. I know Iwhined blogged about this earlier this week but I want to whine some more.Yesterday I needed a two hour nap to recover from Monday night. I also needed too many snacks. Today I think I will probably be grumpy. I plan on eating lunch before my appointment which probably means some kind of fast food which is bad. But I think if I have some food in my stomach I will probably handle the teeth scraping better. (My dentist has told me this several times - eat a good meal before dental work. Having food in your system makes a big difference.) Also I probably won ' t be able to eat for a few hours after between sore gums and numbness.When I am stressed I find myself stress eating. I know I am doing it and have tried to turn myself towards fruit instead of fattening food. But its just too many categories. When I am extremely stressed (think cancer diagnosis level of stress) I stop eating and actually lose weight. I need to lose weight but I am happy I am not that stressed and am at the whining stage.I just ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: eating food stress whininess Source Type: blogs