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by mango7283 1212 days ago
I manage a monitoring and ir team and am obese. I tend to stress eat and there is a lot of stress playing defense all the time.
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If you prevent all the security threats, nobody notices, and the bosses wonder why they even pay you. If a security issue gets through, the bosses wonder why they even pay you.
If you are doing this job and not reporting out on your effects, you are doing half of the job
Meditation could be helpful. Maybe the "Muse" EEG headset might be something for you.

Medication shouldn't be out of the question to stop the stress from killing you. I don't need to know any specifics but just when you say "stress" and "overweight" I can tell you to get checked for at the very least sleep apnea and diabetes. Both can and will ruin your day if you don't catch them early enough, and most people don't.