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Positive Connection of Stress and Weight Gain

By ebazaar ⋅ July 1, 2010 ⋅

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It is quiet a wonder why we can find some diet supplements and aids under the name Cortislim, some sort of supplement that supposedly helps you in losing weight. But by right, the name itself must have something to do with cortisol right, a type of stress hormone, which is released by our body when we’re under stress and in certain dangers or related situations that may lead to stress, together with other hormones as well. So what does this got to do with weight management?

You may be asking this question at the right time because the answer may not seem distant to you, or even weird. There are two ways of seeing this matter; one is the fact that certain people when under stress tend to eat more and have disorganized healthy eating plans and habits, two is the fact that the hormones released are in action to make a shift in your weight as well.

When a person is under stress with much of cortisol released in the body system, he or she will experience a sudden boost of energy, shifts in metabolism rate and blood flows, changing eating pattern and mental suppression. In cases of chronic stress, the problem will only worsen, besides putting the individual in all kinds of other health risk.
Chronic stress and cortisol can contribute to weight gain in many ways. How do you know you’re suffering weight gain from chronic stress? First of all, is the fact that you’re experiencing a very hectic lifestyle and always under pressure to many different circumstances. Remember, that people may react to different kinds of stress differently. Learn how to reduce stress naturally and healthily by reading on how to regain better emotional health.

Other factors of chronic stress to contribute to weight gain are:-

Too much cortisol can slow down your metabolic rate, thus your metabolism. This will cause you more gain that you normally experience since you’re eating pretty normally but gain more weight than before. Then you’ll start asking yourself, what is wrong with yourself…
Stress makes you crave and yes, you can blame it on the cortisol too. What’s worse is that you’ll crave more fatty, salty and sugary foods which is obviously weight gaining machine tools for you.
Ever heard of metabolic syndrome? It is some sort of a pool of health conditions that lead to greater health problems such as strokes, diabetes and high blood pressure. And this is something that is caused by chronic stress and directly affects your weight, stamina and metabolism.
You’ve probably see some method when your tummy fat is measure by pinching it to see how thick your fat is around the area, and this is used to forecast of your health risk. Excessive stress often affects where we tend to store fat. It’ll surely spoil all of your toning session.

One thing obvious about stress and weight gain is how easy it leads you to emotional eating habits, when you’re eating when you’re not hungry and you’re also eating all the wrong food and snacks. Emotional eating more than often involved disorganized snacking or extreme snacking - a mere point to say that snacking is not entirely wrong but should be with the right kind of foods. Look for healthy snack recipes and make your own for more healthy impact! Avoid fast food at all times and take at least 10-15 minutes a day to do easy exercise, now that will help relief you from some stress. Live life to the fullest, healthily.

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