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Date Posted: 16:08:35 08/09/00 Wed
Author: LC in Queens
Subject: Hmmmmm
In reply to: humble diva 's message, "Re: Trauma eating" on 09:33:20 08/09/00 Wed

> i wonder how much of your sugar craving was related to
> the incredible adrenaline dump your system went
> through. i think that extremely stressful situations
> drain the body of its "batteries", and your craving
> was probably your body trying to correct itself - the
> sugar and caffeine and the chocolate.

That's a really interesting thought. Usually, when the stress is associated with things that make me unhappy - a break-up, a loss of some kind - it makes me go completely off my feed. I'm just so miserable that eating makes me feel worse. But this is a much more immediate short burst high-stress kind of situation, and I think your theory may have some serious validity to it.

>
> i wouldn't be too hard on yourself. you witnessed an
> intense event, then had to go to work, where you
> called the police and relived it, and then had to just
> sit there right?

Right on the money, honey!

an oreo pack
> occasionally ain't gonna kill ya.

Thanks, I think my guilt meter was running on high! ;-)
>
> how awful for you though - did you talk to anyone at
> work? or did you have to stew on it til you could get
> home to your honey?

I talked about it a little at work, but I was really shaken up and very close to tears, and I had a mjor presentation on my desk with a lot of nasty conversions from one program to another (it's just amazing the way the bankers think we push a button and word morphs into powerpoint!), so I had to try to focus. He was in rehearsal till almost 7, but I did reach him by phone, and we were able to talk for a while before I got dinner. (I thank God every day for this man's presence in my life!) It helped. It also helps when someone who knows and loves you reminds you to breathe! :)
>
> *sending powerful "diva" vibes east"
>
Thanks, sweetie.

LC

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