Weight Loss - How Stress Affects Your Mind, Body, and Food Intake

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Nothing good ever comes from eating a meal when feeling stressed. Think about the physical state of your body while under stress. You are probably tense, with a knot in your stomach, and your mind on so many different topics you can't think straight. Now imagine how destructive it would be to add food to that equation. If your body is tense and clenched, it won't be relaxed and able to accept food in a healthy way.

Aside from physical discomfort, stress can cause many harmful side effects. Research shows stress can cause obesity and other weight-related conditions, such as Type 2 diabetes.

One harmful side effect presenting itself after a stressful event is when your body first releases a hormone suppressing your desire for any food intake. The purpose of this is to divert your body's attention away from food and to the more prioritising need to resolve the stressful situation: also known as "fight-or-flight." The next hormone release is the problem: several hours after this stressful event your body releases another hormone stimulating hunger.

Recognizing the difference between actual hunger and stress can be achieved through the practice of mindful eating. Before you make the decision to eat, think about your day and your current state of mind...

• notice when you are feeling stressed and your brain feels scattered.

A good way to measure your level of stress is to clear your mind. If you can think clearly without distraction, then you are ready to begin building a connection with yourself, so your weight loss plans kick into gear.

Relaxation is a major factor when it comes to eating or overeating. When your mind and body are relaxed, you not only digest food more healthily you make better decisions about your food choices. Being at peace with yourself means treating others with kindness and living the way you want to be remembered by your family and friends.

If you are upset over how you handled a particular situation, you will not be at peace with yourself and, therefore, you will be not be satisfied with the food you chose to eat. There is nothing you can eat that will make you feel better about whatever is bothering you.

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Connecting with nature doesn't always mean taking a walk through a forest. It can refer to the connection you have with food and how food either keeps you healthy or makes you overweight and unhealthy. If your feelings and actions are helping to make you sick, there is no amount of healthy food to help improve your overall health.

Remember to breathe slowly and deeply before starting to eat. A few deep breaths in and out to purge negative feelings and promote calmness before and while eating, will do wonders for your digestive system, overall health and weight loss plans.

Although managing your disease can be very challenging, Type 2 diabetes is not a condition you must just live with. You can make simple changes to your daily routine and lower both your weight and your blood sugar levels. Hang in there, the longer you do it, the easier it gets.

For nearly 25 years Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body. Go to http://DrugFreeType2Diabetes.com to learn about some of those secrets.

The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.

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Losing Weight Is Hard, Being Fat Is Hard Too!

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One of the most popular reasons why many people do not achieve, or sometimes even attempt to lose weight is because they feel it's too hard. Are you possibly one who fits into this group? Well guess what, being fat is hard too!

When you begin a journey to lose weight, it's going to take some time getting used to. Naturally your body is going to put up some resistance as you continually force it to get off the couch and hit the pavement to workout. It's definitely going to be difficult to stick with healthy nutrition with appropriate portion sizes, especially if you've been used to eating fast food, pizza, or out at restaurants often.

But anyone who is obese, or even worse morbidly obese, knows that being significantly overweight has its own set of difficulties attributed with all that extra weight they need to lug around.

It's hard to climb up a couple of flights of stairs without gasping for air and sweating profusely. What about getting dressed in the morning or going to the bathroom - not as easy as it should be huh? Simply getting in and out of the car may have its own set of awkward movements that others do not have to deal with or even think about at all.

Being fat is hard too!

If you currently in an overweight predicament and you're tired of dealing with everything that's becoming increasingly difficult for you to do, it's time to make a change. Sure it will be a little hard and uncomfortable as you get used to new healthy living habits, maintaining proper nutrition, and getting a consistent form of exercise, but think of the alternative.

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If you're unwilling to make a change that will benefit your life and future, there won't be any change on the scale in your bathroom. There is no one else that can make this decision for you. It's your life and inevitably you will be the one who will have to deal with the consequences of the lack of attention regarding your health.

Don't remain glued to the couch eating those disgusting potato chips and guzzling down liters of soda. Look where it has gotten you today. Give up the junk food and all the other crap you have likely been shoveling into your body and let's change that starting today.

You don't have to remain stuck in that overweight rut. Remember, being fat is hard too! You have the power to change if you really want it bad enough. Take it a step at a time, week by week, improving your daily living habits one by one so that every day will be conducive to weight loss.

Gregory L. Gomez, a LAUSD teacher who's also on journey to develop a healthy life in an effort to lose weight and get in shape. Follow his progress on http://HealthyChoicesInLife.com as he strives to lose nearly 100 pounds by eating healthy and maintaining a consistent exercise routine. Get a FREE monthly Healthy Choices Newsletter along with a Healthy Eating eBook just for stopping by at http://healthychoicesinlife.com/healthy-eating.

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