I’m into my 9^th week of eating lowcarb and physically feeling great but emotionally feeling overwhelmed.  I’m realizing something I used to do in the past.  It was never eating healthy that got me in trouble it was eating when situations in life got tough.  Why do we eat to cover up pain and fear or to reward ourselves?  I know that when life is tough it sure makes me feel better to have ice cream or brownies at the end of the day or celebrate happy occasions with cake or cookies.  Food does make you feel better temporarily, but we don’t live to eat, we eat to live.  I’m saying all of this because I got some tough news today.  I found out that my company will be having layoffs in a couple of months and I am nervous about losing my job.  It’s very scary to think of not having all the income we need to pay our mortgage, pay bills, buy food, ect.  It makes me feel sick to my stomach just thinking about it!  It would be so easy for me to blow off lowcarb and have just one cheat day but I know that would turn into another cheat day that would turn into another cheat day.  It’s not worth it to me!  I’ve worked too hard to lose 16lbs.  I’m not going to say it’s easy because I’m freaking out right now.  But in the end I know I can’t control whether or not I keep my job, but I can control how I take care of my body.  It’s so easy to let life’s stressors mess up life’s successes.  How do you stay on track with eating healthy when you are completely stressed out?