I am feeling a bit discouraged and overwhelmed today. Just a week ago I was high on getting my exercise in and then wham, I let it stop being top priority and it fell away.

I wish I could just wake up and eat what I like, not eat if I like, pretty much I'd like to do whatever I darn well please. I feel so much pressure. Pressure to eat right for the baby, eat right for the diabetes and weight thing, exercise, test at regular times, eat at regular times, log my eating, try to get enough sleep, write enough posts for here, etc., etc. I'd love to give up some sleep to get some things done, but that just messes with everything else I'm trying to do.

Then there are the normal, non-diabetes related life pressures. To be a good wife, mother and employee; to run my house well, provide good meals for my family and yada, yada, yada.

I have felt a bit like a failure the past 2 or 3 days. There. I've said it.

dLife covers this topic in several ways, such as here and here. This tells me it must be a common feeling for people living with diabetes. At least I'm not alone. I will have to put both those articles and the work they suggest on my to-do list as well. I just added 2 more pressure causing items.

I know that the first step is to break it down. A nice long list of everything weighing on my mind would begin to sort things out. Of course, I don't feel like taking that first step.

I know that the answer doesn't lie in a package of Mother's Macaroon cookies. (Not only a refined carbohydrate and sugar mine, but trans fats too!) If only my 4 year old and 3 month old would understand that Mommy needs a couple hours to sort things through. If only my dear husband would see that I need a break. Of course, he has his own long list of pressure.

This is the root of addictions - the cookies are the fast and easy way to change how I feel at the moment. The problem is that the fix doesn't last very long and it has an adverse affect on my goals of health, good glucose control, and a lower weight.

How do you handle stress and burnout, to avoid it and to cure it when you're suffering?