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Rage at no car meaning a 2 1/2 hour unsafe walk to work, and finding rides does not always happen. And 60 days to pay fines to get my license back before I could even get a new car.
There may or may not be a indentation in the wall where my head keeps hitting it.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
In between the stresses of romantic struggles, trying to make everyone happy, working the increased hours - yet somehow still barely having any money afterwards, I've neglected my usual eating and exercise routine, and gained back 20lbs. Within a few month's time, the efforts of half a year or more have been reversed.
I just want to curl up and cry.
I hope there's a change in the cycle and you feel better, whether or not you do it for yourself or it just falls in that way.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
So I feel it. I totally get being frustrated at numbers going back in the wrong direction. But at the same time, you shouldn't let it get you down too much.
Not mad, just ew.
Edited to add:
Oh, and @Nola, @Minarael is right. Weight is not one of those "set it and forget it" things, where you can lose the weight and have it just be that way forever, and beating yourself up for gaining the weight back isn't going to give you any room to see it. It's something I'm working on, where when I miss one of my things I just go "okay, that was a setback. Now you know," instead of "you a-hole, quit having your life not work," when I talk to myself about it.
And yeah, just like the weight went back up when the habit fell out, when you put the habit back in and cut the stress, it'll go back down.
Woe for the opposite problem - when I was working a super stressful job I lost like fifteen pounds over the course of a year. Unhealthy skinny is unhealthy.
the way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
open hand or closed fist would be fine
blood as rare and sweet as cherry wine
Also, everybody neglects the two biggest factors here. Water and sleep. Sleep sleep sleep. Sleep is work too, when you're talking about fitness or health. Physical and mental stress raises cortisol levels, which is doing -nothing- but bad things for you. You need adequate rest for that to go away, and for your body to recover. If you're not resting, you might as well not even be working out.
"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman