What do YOU do?

I am having a day. Didn't get much sleep. I'm a bit over exercised. I am behind in work. I am interviewing for 2 jobs which is stressing me out. My dog brought me her ball this morning and I almost had a melt down. I went to enter my breakfast into MFP and I was like I just can't do this today. Like that one little thing was the straw that broke the camel's back and it wasn't even 8:00am. What do you do when you hit the wall?

I am sure I will get over it and I will get that breakfast logged. I already feel a little bit better by writing this. 

But I would like to know what some of your techniques are when you get the overwhelmed feeling and think, even if it is a fleeting thought, that you can't do this for one more second. Where do you find your inspiration?

OK, I am over it I am logging in MFP right now. I'd still like to see your answers.

I use the Beck Diet Solutions book.  One of the items in it is to write down alternative actions to take when you want to eat, or in this case, when you just don't feel like playing the game.  I have a diet coach...a good friend who will talk to me logically when I'm feeling stressed and not really looking at things right.  I contact him.  If he's not available, I come here.  I can always vent and get some good responses from the people on this forum.  I did those two things just yesterday when I realized I'd become a bit overwhelmed with sticking to my diet since my exercise became impossible because of a bad hip.  It really helped, and I've been on plan since.

Jane

I keep hearing about that book, I'm gonna have to check it out. I am actually not wanting to eat for a change. Just had a complete moment of laziness and not wanting to do anything. But I think the process is still valid. Basically evaluate why you feel that way and look at ways to change it. Unfortunately right now not much I can do but power though.

Thanks for the response. I would give it a LIKE if we had like button.

Keith:

Sorry to hear that you're feeling this way!!!!  When I get like that I usually listen to a CD with my favorite upbeat songs, or watch a you tube video that cracks me up.  My husband & I think we're comedians so a lot of times I'll call him and we start talking about a time "when something funny happened to us" and usually I burst out laughing.  I try anything that will put a smile on my face.   

I hope you feel better soon!!!!  Please get some rest tonight.  You cannot tackle the world if your body is lacking sleep. 

That's a good one. Some sort of diversion. I like it.

I felt a little bit like this last night. I'm still trying to figure out why. I guess I'm "tired" in a sense. Not physically, but mentally. I went over calories last night - thankfully not with bad foods... but just kind of felt like a bottomless pit. I don't have an answer for how I dealt with it then, because I didn't really. When I got on the scale this morning and saw a gain (which I guarantee is from all the salt in the massive amounts of turkey jerky I ate last night lol), it frustrated me beyond belief!

All morning at work I've been looking through my old pictures and some news ones that are within a week old. The pictures will always do it for me and I'm so glad I've been taking them often. I need constant reminders of how far I've come and they need to be visual! I always find the inspiration in these pictures.

I also have a video that I took of myself the night before surgery. In the video, I was telling myself how much it sucks to weigh 338 lbs and that it was even worse six months prior at 444 lbs. I told myself that if I were ever having a tough time that I just needed to push through it because "you don't want to end up back here!" and that snaps me back as well! Who better to tell me that going back to where I was isn't worth any food or lack of exercise than me!? lol

I hope things look up for you today.

Reminding of and appreciating your current progress. That's a good one too. My scale was actually down this morning which should have been motivating. I think the stress of my current job coupled with the stress of trying to find a new one is really what's at work here. Plus I didn't sleep well last night. I might have 3 hours of sleep right now I woke up so much and had a hard time sleeping plus a 5am workout. Its gonna be a long day.

Thanks for the response!

Lack of sleep is always my kryptonite. I always try to make sleep my priority, no matter what. For me, lack of sleep = not caring what I eat, grouchiness, negative self-talk, and bad self esteem lol. It's not good for my mojo that's for sure. Hopefully you can get some sleep tonight!

I try to too. I went to bed at 10:30 last night, was woke up by my 100lb german shepherd puppy wanting to play, then my wife coming home late, then I couldn't get out of my own head, then the dog again at 4am wanting to go out, then back to sleep at 5am.

Usually I try to distract myself and operate on autopilot.  Sometimes, if I'm really exhausted/overwhelmed and just want to hide out in my closet, I let myself wallow.  I give myself a time period, usually a day.  I will wallow, I will not analyze, I'll just let myself feel like **** and then move on the next day.  I'm not saying that's helpful, but sometimes distraction, trying to focus on the positive, trying to figure out what the "real" issue is, none of those things actually helps and I end up feeling worse because sometimes there is no reason.  Sometimes I'm just having a bad day, and I just need to let myself have that bad day without judgment or analysis.