I'm sorry for all of your stress, nobody.

Weight loss can really help us to feel better. I would love to lose weight, but I worry that I commit for about 5 mins, and then condemn myself to doom. I allow myself to fail before I've even tried.

Are you able to channel some of your stress into exercise? Best wishes for you!

Stress will deff cause you to drop some weight.

And it doesn't have to be "Bad" stress.

I just did a long distance move, I've been very busy with my family , I'm having fun, and I have lost 10 pounds

Stress is stress and it will affect us .

Good luck with all your issues nobody

I think that mood is determined by where we place our attention, or focus, rather than by the actual burdens we carry. And focusing attention on burdens is a sure fire way for me to deflate myself.

A good twenty minutes of that and I can be miserable for days. Instead I try three alternatives usually:
1. Focus on a blessing rather than a curse. Then my mood lifts just with the passage of time
2. Focus on others rather than myself. I try not to keep my miserable self company but instead talk to helpful family, friends, professionals
3. If the thoughts are intrusive I wonder and investigate how the nagging part of my mind is trying to help me in a positive way. I can learn to appreciate its efforts if not its methods, I figure. And once it feels heard and understood it leaves me alone usually :) If not I try to find and deal with the triggers that bring particular fears, doubts and worries to the front of my awareness.

You are pretty much already focusing on a blessing [weight loss]
How many others can you list? :)
You are talking to friends so not bottling your issues :)
Well done and very smart
Maybe you can notice particular things that start you thinking about your worries when you don't want to [become bothered] and change your patterns to avoid them. [Just a thought.]

What really helped me with anxiety and stress last time I was going downhill nobody999 was setting aside a half hour a day to worry and dwell on my problems [set time] then getting it out of my system till the next day, refusing to consider worrying issues at other times. After a week or so of doing this my worries didn't seem to matter as much...and I went back to not needing to.

Thanks for the food for thought about burdens, it reminded me of my strengths in coping with them in the past successfully, and the worry period tool that I have in reserve if needed again.

Scotch or maybe wine and mellow Jazz help too !

Good luck to you and yours in all things

Moob

Nobody I'm happy for you you're losing weight. Stress can cause weight loss. It can cause weight gain too. Comfort food anyone? I agree looking at where your focus is is important in your mood. Right now I'm focusing on how grateful I am for my AC in this heatwave for the next couple weeks where I live/

Congrats on losing the weight that you've lost already. That's hard to do! Sorry that you've got so much stress in your life right now.

I'm in a lot of debt, and that weighs on my mind daily.

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Hey Tim - nice to see you today :)

I had stuff weighing on my mind earlier. Debt, personal space, ugly-ness, bad hair, bipolar moods, stupid people, etc etc - and then I decided to put all of that Aside, because what Good was it doing me right then? Not so much.

I listened to some really good music, typed a bit, ate food, walked in the sunshine and then Tried to muster up the same frustrations that I had earlier.

....Couldn't do it. Was too OKAY with life to get really upset about stuff. So I put it on a list to do again later.

I do that every day. It Helps "D

Losing weight is a good feeling. Hard work and healthy amount of exercise has lifted my depression, despite a crazy few months I just got through.

Sorry you've got so much to handle right now. Good suggestions from everyone about putting aside worries.

My financial stuff weighs me down, but I'll get through it.