I apologize on my lack of posting on my page here lately. The last few weeks in March were pretty hard for my family and me, as we suddenly lost my Grandmother. To be quite honest, not only was this obviously a hard and emotional time for the family, but it was busy as well, especially for my mother and aunts and I admire them all so much for dealing with everything as well as they did.

With all of that being said it inspired my next topic for my page, but first let me go a little more into detail about my experiences during that time. For the week or so that everything was going on, it was of course an emotional time, but it also was a busy time. That meant not a lot of time to plan out meals which also resulted in eating not so great during that time. It also meant not going to the gym as well. I am not going to make a single excuse. Quite frankly with everything that was going on I just did not want to go and did not care about what I was eating that much. It happens… we are only human and most of us cannot stay on track 100% of the time. Life does sometimes get in the way.

Stress is a pretty nasty part of life. So many health problems can result from stress and it is sometimes unavoidable. Trying to avoid it can also have the reverse effect. Last week I found myself to be having what I believe was an anxiety attack. I won’t go too far into it, but my entire drive to the gym I just had a sense of impending doom that I couldn’t shake, and while I was working out I suddenly felt like I couldn’t breathe properly. I listened to my body and stopped my workout and went to the locker room to calm down. Just on a whim I looked up symptoms of an anxiety attack and it seemed pretty clear to me that that is what was going on. Holding onto so much stress and not dealing with it was exactly what I had been doing over the last few weeks, and it caught up to me.

There are honestly a lot of things to do to deal with stress, but the most important thing is taking the time away from your stressor to relax and calm your mind. Here are a few things that I do: