Benefits of stress

Feelig really good today.

I normally kick around in tracksuit pants, but decided that I'll put on jeans and make the effort to look semi decent for a change. I put on a pair of jeans that I bought four months ago, and they swam on me. After trying on tonnes of clothes, I realised I have dropped 4 dress sizes in 3 months!!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!
I haven't been this thin since I was 14!!!!!!!!!!
So I spent the day shopping for hot new clothes and then dancing around the lounge room!!!!!

Gotta love what stress can do for you!

don't know what to say... except that I am so sorry for the stress that gave you the thin...

and enjoy the new clothes.

Woot! That's gotta feel great! & major kudos for bein kind to yourself & getting some new clothes to make yourself feel good! Sorry you've been so stressed though!

Good for you!!

I wore lipstick and earrings today..woohoo!!!!

That is a good feeling & it can be bad. The same thing happened to me 2 1/2 years ago when my Mother was dying of cancer & I caught the home care person abusing her & stealing her ID. Stress has always made me loose my appitite & I lost it so bad, I couldn't eat with the horrible nausea I was having. I lost so much weight I was down to 93 lbs which was more than a previous time I had a similar thing happen.

Unfortunately, that landed me in the hospital on & off for several months with mal nutrition & anemia & was on IV nutrition just to be able to keep going. I didn't have any cloths that fit & had to go out & buy all new cloths.....definitely love the look in jeans....that was the first time I really found jeans that I really looked great in.....which I agree with you...that is an awsome feeling. Only problem was, my skin was hanging on me & I looked like a 100 year old lady under the nice looking jeans.

I had a fight with my pdoc & PCP who were telling me that is was anorexia. It wasn't until one of the ED treatment centers said it was PTSD I was dealing with & that wasn't something they could help with, that they finally listened to what I was saying & believed what I had gone through.

It has taken me all this time to get to a healthy weight & still look good in my cloths. The previous time, when I got through the stress, unfortunately, my weight did a huge swing to the heavy side which was probably why my skin was hanging on me. I haven't gotten to a place in life where my stress has been reduced, so still am having problems with the low weight.....but I am also going to be very very careful not to let it ever swing to the heavy side ever again.

Your post sounded so similar to what I have experienced, just wanted to let you know, someone else knows exactly what you are feeling.....but also just want to let you know that an excessive weight loss can be as dangerous as anorexia even if it is not because of body image issues.

Please be careful.....but enjoy those jeans,
Debbie

I am so happy to hear that you lost a lot of weight. That is a
positive thing. But I am sorry to her that is was due to Stress. I hope everything keeps going well for you.