I just didn't know how stress could knock me for a loop! I have done very well with my new life. Eating right, working out 5 days a week since Jan.

WELL taxes are due today! I have the money to pay them BUT it takes most of our "cushion" money. So last night I couldn't sleep AT ALL. I got out of bed at 2 am. Got on here to read anything I could to take my mind off things. DIDN'T WORK. I then went to the kitchen....

I didn't do tooooo bad. I ate a bowl of special K then had a pack of peanut butter crackers. Went back to bed. The last time I looked at the clock was like 4 am. Had to get up at 8am at the latest. So you know what this brought in the scale this am 1 lb. up which makes me crazy because I did 45 min extra cardio everyday this week.

Heres the problem all day I have been STARVING. I fell like IM STARVING at least. I have fought off the urge to just EAT and have 200 cal. left of 1600 cal. I'm just putting this out there so hopefully I can read it and talk myself off the edge. I know that sounds silly but thats really the way I have felt ALL DAY. ON THE EDGE of falling off plan.

Oh, you're not imagining things. The good news is that from what you describe, it's probably not permanent.

Studies have shown that people who don't get enough sleep have high levels of a hormone called gherlin. Guess what high levels of gherlin cause? Hunger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin

I had a nutjob day with my kid's school activities and though I started eating for weight loss, by afternoon I realized it was going to be bonkers, and I just told myself "Ok, do you best to stay sane, eat to maintain. No problem."
And I managed it somehow.

Tomorrow I will go back to eating for weight loss.

A.