Personal loss and new resolve

I have attained an average weight of 183 lbs, however, it gives me no joy to report that.  The weight loss is the direct result of not having eaten anything for a week following my mother’s death on September 14th and having to force myself to eat whatever I have eaten since then.

My stress eating has seemed to reverse itself in the overload of stress that I have experienced since my mom died.  Rather than eating when I am stressed, I am instead too stressed to keep anything down.  To even feel the desire to eat or drink anything.  So, I am forcing myself to eat, and I am similarly forcing myself to work.  My mom believed in my ability to write, in my skills as a writer and in what she saw as a basic fact that I would be a successful author one day.  She already saw me as a successful writer, because I had proven myself to be able to earn money through my writing, but my mom believed that I would be a successful author as well, with published books and book deals that would be enough to pay off the house she wanted to leave to me and allow me to retire comfortably.

I am going to do everything I can to prove her belief in me and my skills as a writer were true.

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