Hi. I just wanted to throw that question out there since lately,I have been going through a ton of stressful situations. How do you,personally handle stress in a healthy manner? Does it lead to stress eating? If so,what have you tried in order to avoid doing it?
I know for me,I have been trying to keep busy,but sometimes that is so hard to do!

Stress...Well, lately, when I\'ve been stressed, I\'ve found myself getting on the computer and typing. I\'ll open a blank word document and start typing everything that goes through my mind.. Some of it sometimes ends up getting copied and pasted on BuddySlim as my blog, but seldom all of it. But just typing it all out seems to help, even if all I do is delete it.

For me I have found that venting to someone helps a lot.

I YELL AND SCREAM AND THEN MY FAMILY SAYS I AM CRZY AND THEY GIVE ME A PILL TO CHILL SO BASICLY MEDS.
ROSA

[b][i][size=4][color=#ff6666]Rosa, you\'re too much. I deal with stress by having mental talks with myself. I ask myself what the stress of it is and then I try to do something about it if I can do something and if I can\'t I try to get myself through it by making myself realize the stressful situation is out of my control. It\'s really hard and this doesn\'t always work but I\'m trying. [IMG]http://72.52.165.6

My friend\'s grand father used to have a saying...\" They would live without it if you were dead. \" How true is that?
Other than just blowing off, when I\'m really stressed or ready to kill my kids, we turn on some old 70\'s funk music on full blast, get the mops and brooms ( microphones ) and we sing and dance until we fall down.
Then my default behaivor is to scream my ever loving head off at the person who is causing me stress.

How sad is this- I put on sad music and cry- then I usually feel better.

There are really good suggestions.Thanks ladies!