This: " I get in this stressed out mindset, a bit depressed, and don't care, and food is such an easy escape." --

As I prepare in the next year for "the empty nest" transition, I truly hope all the biggest stressors decrease in my life - as I can identify that every time stress elevates to very high levels, so does my weight....

Thanks for writing that as it's good for me to write it - and visualize it. Perhaps in addition to working on my relationship with food, I need to learn to work on my spirit the moment stress begins to arise - I think I'm often SO busy, so caught up with "doing/handling" - that I shelve my spirit to the side and then at night or solo moments become comfort food moments.

You mentioned a few months ago and then recently so did Art - about writing every time I reached to eat when I wasn't hungry - and I've done it a few times, and I really need to stick with this. I also haven't been consistent with meditation - which I know is important to me and is so helpful.

Yes - hope to share a positive update in another 6 months - and as long as I remember life is never a straight up or down line - I shall keep on keeping on! Much love Barbara....thanks for the chat and sharing! 😘