Instead of Eating from Stress, I had My Thirteen Year Old Daughter Chop off My Hair!

When the pandemic started to spread, so did my eating windows. I started eating all the time and I started eating very unhealthy foods. I also started rapidly gaining weight. About a week later, I got back to my intermittent fasting of eating two or three times a day between noon and 8. I went back to working out and it all gave me a sense of a little bit of control in a crazy world. 

My 13 year old daughter, husband and I decided to self-isolate before our county asked us to. We realized our fortunate position of being able to do work and school from home. To keep ourselves healthy and to keep others healthy we stayed at home. 

We wanted to help others so we called friends and family, hosted an online trivia night and sent off packages in the mail. After 10 days in the house, we wanted to do more so I decided that my daughter would chop off my very big, curly, large hair and she chose to donate it to ChildrenWithHairLoss.US  

Something about doing this gave us just a small sense of control that helped us ease our stress about the growing pandemic. It made us feel like we were doing SOMETHING. 

I can't say that it went particularly well or that I liked the result but it did lead me to a revelation I did not expect and for that I am forever thankful.