I told my husband was going to start a Stress Eater’s Anonymous group in our area.
Nearly every woman I knew, was a stress eater.
It seems that whenever I am in a situation I can’t handle, I look for food, and I’m not picky about what I eat. I’ll grab sweets first, but peanut butter has also assuaged my anger or frustration. When the HVAC system was giving us a lot of trouble, I was very stressed. My husband couldn’t find the problem, and neither could the HVAC company. It seemed the temperature was constantly fluctuating in the house. One morning it was sixty-two when we got up, and the next morning it was seventy. I was beginning to think there was a poltergeist around that was playing games with our thermostat in the middle of the night. I swore I was going to stay awake and see what was happening. All I saw was that my neighbor was in and out all night long. They worked different shifts since they worked at the hospital and they had odd hours. I remembered talking to her one afternoon and she said it seemed they were always coming and going. I began to wonder if they had a smart thermostat like ours. I had heard it was possible to have smart thermostats that had different frequencies and someone else could possibly be able to access theirs and someone else’s smart thermostat. I shrugged and blew off that idea, but I had to ask them. The next morning, I caught her as she was heading out the door and asked about her smart thermostat. She said she had noticed changes on theirs and now it was all making sense.