Re: I knew this was going to happen

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,

I know how exciting it is to start a new program, whether it's school, or a bookclub or just to plan to have dinner for the family. We seem to operate on a thin line between wellness and exhaustion. When we push ourself, often we end up back in a full flare, and we end up quitting.

This is where pacing comes in. You know what you can do. Sure, Sheriff wants to come home to dinner, and relax. Right now, it may be that you both are going to have to split the dinner program. He needs to be able to help with the chores and shopping and cooking. So does your son.

I've found that crockpots are marvelous. If I know that it's going to be a busy day-- I'll toss something in the crockpot--and let it stew while I'm out doing whatever. Then when I get home-- it's pull a bag of salad mix out of the frig and put it in a bowl-- vawlawwww, there's dinner!

Laundry-- your son can help with that, and vacumming, dusting, etc-- these need to be things all of you take part in. To expect yourself to be able to do it all-- is to set yourself up for failure.

As for the problem with recall- etc, this is what a panic attack feels like. When we end up on overload--the exhaustion and fatigue just come up and bite us in the arse.

We want to please our husbands, so we try to meet those expectations. We want the job, the clean house, the extra paycheck. Truly, you have to listen to your body-- and if you're on overload-- give yourself the weekend to rest.

Sheriff needs to understand that you are not going to be able to do it all. Your schooling is equal to a full time job-- with the end goal being that you will be able to work. But if all this is coming at the price of your health-- you may have to reevaluate what you are doing.

Take care of you, and pace yourself-- and you can do this. share the chores, and you can do this.

Love to you,

Tracie

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[Guest guest]

,

I know how exciting it is to start a new program, whether it's school, or a bookclub or just to plan to have dinner for the family. We seem to operate on a thin line between wellness and exhaustion. When we push ourself, often we end up back in a full flare, and we end up quitting.

This is where pacing comes in. You know what you can do. Sure, Sheriff wants to come home to dinner, and relax. Right now, it may be that you both are going to have to split the dinner program. He needs to be able to help with the chores and shopping and cooking. So does your son.

I've found that crockpots are marvelous. If I know that it's going to be a busy day-- I'll toss something in the crockpot--and let it stew while I'm out doing whatever. Then when I get home-- it's pull a bag of salad mix out of the frig and put it in a bowl-- vawlawwww, there's dinner!

Laundry-- your son can help with that, and vacumming, dusting, etc-- these need to be things all of you take part in. To expect yourself to be able to do it all-- is to set yourself up for failure.

As for the problem with recall- etc, this is what a panic attack feels like. When we end up on overload--the exhaustion and fatigue just come up and bite us in the arse.

We want to please our husbands, so we try to meet those expectations. We want the job, the clean house, the extra paycheck. Truly, you have to listen to your body-- and if you're on overload-- give yourself the weekend to rest.

Sheriff needs to understand that you are not going to be able to do it all. Your schooling is equal to a full time job-- with the end goal being that you will be able to work. But if all this is coming at the price of your health-- you may have to reevaluate what you are doing.

Take care of you, and pace yourself-- and you can do this. share the chores, and you can do this.

Love to you,

Tracie

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[Guest guest]

This happens to me all the time when I over due it, just like you described, in fact I did that yesterday too much, and that was hardly anything, you are doing so much, but I just had to go to bed, or I thought I would be so sick, I have to give into those feelings, so be kind to yourself , and take life a little slower, you just did too much, maybe you'll need the weekends to rest up and say No to other things. I just cannot imagine how you get it all done now, but do take some time for you, and rest up whenever you get a chance. blessings, Marla

Well, when I first started school I felt all this energy, I was staying up all day and up till late doing homework, and up early to work on homework.

after 3 full weeks of school, I find myself sleeping later and feeling worse than I did for 3 weeks. don't get me wrong I love school. But my body is saying, overload, !

I found it difficult before to do household chores and now I am doing school work, chores, trying to make dinner for sherif, and seth. I am finding myself feeling a little depressed, and I don't know why. When I sit here and think about it all, I wonder how I am going to be able to handle all this. Sheriff gets mad when he comes home at night after working and I don't have dinner done, I have had a problem on Sunday we went to his sisters and took seth out to get new clothes since he lost 75lbs during wrestling this season at school, and It was a long time that this had happened , my mind just went ... I couldn't think of what I wanted to say , I felt sick, my heart was pounding, I didn't know what to do. I couldn't seem to get words out, or retrive anything.

does anyone have any suggestions or did this happen to them ?

thank you for listening,

Many blessings and hugs and pain free day

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[Guest guest]

This happens to me all the time when I over due it, just like you described, in fact I did that yesterday too much, and that was hardly anything, you are doing so much, but I just had to go to bed, or I thought I would be so sick, I have to give into those feelings, so be kind to yourself , and take life a little slower, you just did too much, maybe you'll need the weekends to rest up and say No to other things. I just cannot imagine how you get it all done now, but do take some time for you, and rest up whenever you get a chance. blessings, Marla

Well, when I first started school I felt all this energy, I was staying up all day and up till late doing homework, and up early to work on homework.

after 3 full weeks of school, I find myself sleeping later and feeling worse than I did for 3 weeks. don't get me wrong I love school. But my body is saying, overload, !

I found it difficult before to do household chores and now I am doing school work, chores, trying to make dinner for sherif, and seth. I am finding myself feeling a little depressed, and I don't know why. When I sit here and think about it all, I wonder how I am going to be able to handle all this. Sheriff gets mad when he comes home at night after working and I don't have dinner done, I have had a problem on Sunday we went to his sisters and took seth out to get new clothes since he lost 75lbs during wrestling this season at school, and It was a long time that this had happened , my mind just went ... I couldn't think of what I wanted to say , I felt sick, my heart was pounding, I didn't know what to do. I couldn't seem to get words out, or retrive anything.

does anyone have any suggestions or did this happen to them ?

thank you for listening,

Many blessings and hugs and pain free day

The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL Music takes you there.

-- Marla BramerIndependent Beauty Consultant Kay mbramer@...www.marykay.com/mbramer

[Guest guest]

, I'm with Tracie and Marla.. its easy to get overwhelmed and not be able to do anything at all.. I know when things go crazy here, the dishes are up to the ceiling, the house is a total mess, and my so wants me to go to every basketball game, I just look at it and don't know what to do..

My mind doesn't tell me just to start, it tells me nothing.. so I just look at it and go back to my chair and sit down.. When Damian, gets tired of it.. he says mom lets do some of these dishes.. Now mind you he doesn't wash them.. but he helps me get them ready, rinses, dries.. but he does help.. which helps me start.. I can't stand long enough at the sink to wash even a few dishes, so I have a stool that I sit on.. it helps too..

I like you after I got sick, thought I'd take this down time to take some classes.. I'm an LPN and wanted to knock out some classes for my RN.. I finished the first one without any problems.. but after that I was a basket case and couldn't even decide what I wanted for dinner much less what someone that was on a 2000 calorie ADA diet needed.. of course it was a nutritional class.. Heck, if I could figure that out I wouldn't be taking insulin.. grrrr

Anyway, get help from the boys.. they won't like it.. but if your gonna continue with school, they are gonna have to help.. Good luck.. with your classes.. :-)

Hugs,

I knew this was going to happen

Well, when I first started school I felt all this energy, I was staying up all day and up till late doing homework, and up early to work on homework.

after 3 full weeks of school, I find myself sleeping later and feeling worse than I did for 3 weeks. don't get me wrong I love school. But my body is saying, overload, !

I found it difficult before to do household chores and now I am doing school work, chores, trying to make dinner for sherif, and seth. I am finding myself feeling a little depressed, and I don't know why. When I sit here and think about it all, I wonder how I am going to be able to handle all this. Sheriff gets mad when he comes home at night after working and I don't have dinner done, I have had a problem on Sunday we went to his sisters and took seth out to get new clothes since he lost 75lbs during wrestling this season at school, and It was a long time that this had happened , my mind just went ... I couldn't think of what I wanted to say , I felt sick, my heart was pounding, I didn't know what to do. I couldn't seem to get words out, or retrive anything.

does anyone have any suggestions or did this happen to them ?

thank you for listening,

Many blessings and hugs and pain free day

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[Guest guest]

,

I am so happy that you are able to go back to school, but is there

someone who can help you out? Can you afford to have someone come in

and clean? Or they have those places where you can go and cook a weeks

worth of meals? You can freeze them and just nuke em when you need

them.

Energy conservation is key and we all know what it is to get excited

about something, over do it and crash; just not to the extent you have.

I am sending, good, healing thoughts your way. Take a deep breath and

get some rest.

Terri G

>

> Well, when I first started school I felt all this energy, I was

staying up

> all day and up till late doing homework, and up early to work on

homework.

> after 3 full weeks of school, I find myself sleeping later and feeling

worse

> than I did for 3 weeks. don't get me wrong I love school. But my body

is

> saying, overload, !

>

> I found it difficult before to do household chores and now I am doing

school

> work, chores, trying to make dinner for sherif, and seth. I am finding

> myself feeling a little depressed, and I don't know why. When I sit

here and think

> about it all, I wonder how I am going to be able to handle all this.

Sheriff

> gets mad when he comes home at night after working and I don't have

dinner

> done, I have had a problem on Sunday we went to his sisters and took

seth out

> to get new clothes since he lost 75lbs during wrestling this season at

> school, and It was a long time that this had happened , my mind just

went ... I

> couldn't think of what I wanted to say , I felt sick, my heart was

pounding, I

> didn't know what to do. I couldn't seem to get words out, or retrive

anything.

> does anyone have any suggestions or did this happen to them ?

>

> thank you for listening,

> Many blessings and hugs and pain free day

>

>

>

>

> **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the

Grammy

> Awards. Go to AOL Music.

> (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

>

[Guest guest]

,

I am so happy that you are able to go back to school, but is there

someone who can help you out? Can you afford to have someone come in

and clean? Or they have those places where you can go and cook a weeks

worth of meals? You can freeze them and just nuke em when you need

them.

Energy conservation is key and we all know what it is to get excited

about something, over do it and crash; just not to the extent you have.

I am sending, good, healing thoughts your way. Take a deep breath and

get some rest.

Terri G

>

> Well, when I first started school I felt all this energy, I was

staying up

> all day and up till late doing homework, and up early to work on

homework.

> after 3 full weeks of school, I find myself sleeping later and feeling

worse

> than I did for 3 weeks. don't get me wrong I love school. But my body

is

> saying, overload, !

>

> I found it difficult before to do household chores and now I am doing

school

> work, chores, trying to make dinner for sherif, and seth. I am finding

> myself feeling a little depressed, and I don't know why. When I sit

here and think

> about it all, I wonder how I am going to be able to handle all this.

Sheriff

> gets mad when he comes home at night after working and I don't have

dinner

> done, I have had a problem on Sunday we went to his sisters and took

seth out

> to get new clothes since he lost 75lbs during wrestling this season at

> school, and It was a long time that this had happened , my mind just

went ... I

> couldn't think of what I wanted to say , I felt sick, my heart was

pounding, I

> didn't know what to do. I couldn't seem to get words out, or retrive

anything.

> does anyone have any suggestions or did this happen to them ?

>

> thank you for listening,

> Many blessings and hugs and pain free day

>

>

>

>

> **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the

Grammy

> Awards. Go to AOL Music.

> (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

>

[Guest guest]

, you are so in my thoughts & prayers...take

care of yourself///Connie

--- JessicAbouhamama@... wrote:

> Well, when I first started school I felt all this

> energy, I was staying up

> all day and up till late doing homework, and up

> early to work on homework.

> after 3 full weeks of school, I find myself sleeping

> later and feeling worse

> than I did for 3 weeks. don't get me wrong I love

> school. But my body is

> saying, overload, !

>

> I found it difficult before to do household chores

> and now I am doing school

> work, chores, trying to make dinner for sherif, and

> seth. I am finding

> myself feeling a little depressed, and I don't know

> why. When I sit here and think

> about it all, I wonder how I am going to be able to

> handle all this. Sheriff

> gets mad when he comes home at night after working

> and I don't have dinner

> done, I have had a problem on Sunday we went to his

> sisters and took seth out

> to get new clothes since he lost 75lbs during

> wrestling this season at

> school, and It was a long time that this had

> happened , my mind just went ... I

> couldn't think of what I wanted to say , I felt

> sick, my heart was pounding, I

> didn't know what to do. I couldn't seem to get words

> out, or retrive anything.

> does anyone have any suggestions or did this happen

> to them ?

>

> thank you for listening,

> Many blessings and hugs and pain free day

>

>

>

>

> **************The year's hottest artists on the red

> carpet at the Grammy

> Awards. Go to AOL Music.

>

(http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

>

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[Guest guest]

, you are so in my thoughts & prayers...take

care of yourself///Connie

--- JessicAbouhamama@... wrote:

> Well, when I first started school I felt all this

> energy, I was staying up

> all day and up till late doing homework, and up

> early to work on homework.

> after 3 full weeks of school, I find myself sleeping

> later and feeling worse

> than I did for 3 weeks. don't get me wrong I love

> school. But my body is

> saying, overload, !

>

> I found it difficult before to do household chores

> and now I am doing school

> work, chores, trying to make dinner for sherif, and

> seth. I am finding

> myself feeling a little depressed, and I don't know

> why. When I sit here and think

> about it all, I wonder how I am going to be able to

> handle all this. Sheriff

> gets mad when he comes home at night after working

> and I don't have dinner

> done, I have had a problem on Sunday we went to his

> sisters and took seth out

> to get new clothes since he lost 75lbs during

> wrestling this season at

> school, and It was a long time that this had

> happened , my mind just went ... I

> couldn't think of what I wanted to say , I felt

> sick, my heart was pounding, I

> didn't know what to do. I couldn't seem to get words

> out, or retrive anything.

> does anyone have any suggestions or did this happen

> to them ?

>

> thank you for listening,

> Many blessings and hugs and pain free day

>

>

>

>

> **************The year's hottest artists on the red

> carpet at the Grammy

> Awards. Go to AOL Music.

>

(http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)

>

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