Confessing a Failure
So, I screwed up big time yesterday. All week, I had been eating to stave off stress, but yesterday I ate far too many calories for a sensible person.
While working (I'm on a deadline and really stressed out), I started to think about something about which I have zero control and which really freaks me out (estranged husband has been making vague threats of violence and, much as I hope that it's just angry talk, there's a part of me that is terrified that he will hurt my family; it's an ongoing thing, but it's got me more shaken than I expected; he used to be the only safe place in my world and now it's him that I'm worried about, so nothing feels right). Once the thought was in my mind, I couldn't stop freaking out about it, got really scared, and had a full on panic attack (asthma, anxiety, inability to calm down) for like an hour (I'm going through some kind of trauma disorder as a result of some stuff that happened, not actual violence, but the threat of it). I needed to get the feelings out of my head, so I tried watching a tv show. It took me several hours on netflix to calm down, but during that time, I ordered a small thin crust pizza and ate the entire thing! I know it was spaced over about eight hours, so it wasn't like I scarfed down an entire pizza in one sitting, but, it was still a bad thing to do and it felt like a failure. With the carbs in my system and enough distraction for both tastebuds and brain, I was able to stop freaking out after several hours, but did so basically by shutting down and tuning out.
All day, I'd been exercising during breaks (Work 1.5 hours, Exercise .5 hours, repeat), but this was still a complete failure on my part and I've woken up feeling completely ashamed.
I don't know what I hope to gain by confessing my failure, maybe just staying accountable. Maybe I just want to hear if any of you have ever given in despite your own desire for control and regretted it and how you forgave yourselves for it the next day. I'm trying to remember that today is just a new day and hope that even if I panic about something today, I won't try to sedate my body with carbs again.
Last edited by neon_zephyr; 03-18-2012 at 03:43 PM.
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