It’s been a sad and rough day

If you’ve read my other post you will know that I struggled a lot the first couple weeks (mainly emotionally) after surgery. After that things started looking up and I’ve been doing really well ever since. Today is a mixture of being overwhelmed homeschooling 3 kids (one who just started high school and one in pre-k), then having my youngest regress and act like he’s going through terrible 2’s again, hardly ever seeing hubby cause he works 6 days a week right now and the list just really goes on and on so I won’t bore you to death. Typically I would find something really good but unhealthy to eat to make myself feel better but now I feel like I’m in a dark room all by myself with no comfort in sight. My best friend (food) and security blanket is gone and I don’t mean like gone on vacation but gone gone. I’m sad, I’m lost and just feel really alone right now in my head. It hasn’t helped that I’ve been soooo hard on myself today for “only” losing 3 lbs this past week. I’ve lost less and I’ve also lost more some weeks. I can’t have my cake and eat it too so I either lose rapidly and not enjoy anything I like or I have them in moderation and lose slower. That’s just how it is and I need to except that. I don’t really have any questions today but just wanted to share my feelings going through this process. Maybe someone else going through this will not make them feel as alone as I do currently.

 

[Tokash]

Gotta find a new coping skill and consider therapy as the emotions can cycle in this for awhile. Might not hurt to get the kiddo some as well.

 

[3boysmom]

I understand how you feel. Those feelings are familiar to me as well. It's hard to get outside of our head sometimes. Know that emotions are a roller coaster and when you're down you will come back up again. And maybe if you talk to a doctor there's some medications to help you if you're going through a low period for too long and that is ok. Things do just get overwhelming sometimes. Hang in there, this too shall pass.

 

Gotta find a new coping skill and consider therapy as the emotions can cycle in this for awhile. Might not hurt to get the kiddo some as well.

“Kiddo some as well”? Yes, if I notice that this is an every day thing then I would definitely reach out for help but I know it’s expected that I will have a hormonal imbalance for a while which will cause days like these.