i have felt that i have had a lot of stress and that i was not eating well also. however i noticed just this week my nails are in excellent shape. that may be a weird little thing but usually my nails are showing my stress levels. i bite them, have for as long as i can recall. sometimes i get fake nails for awhile because they look so bad it is unprofessional, other times i use good hand lotion and keep trimming them. all the bad tasting stuff you put on nails never stopped me. they tend to be weak, split easily and generally don't show good health.

right now my nails are strong, grown to the tips of my fingers and some slightly beyond. i am putting polish or the wraps my daughter sells on and not nervously picking it off in 2 days. so i think this is some feedback that i am doing okay, i am eating better than i thought (it is so easy to be hard on ourselves) and i am calm enough to not chew them up,