How Stress Can Affect Your Weight?

Stress can make you fat? When stressed, many people tend to gain more weight for various reasons. Fortunately, there is something you can do to cut this weight gain and even get a better shape and, reducing stress at the same time.

There are several ways in which the stress can give to weight gain. We have to do here in cortisol, the stress hormone. When we are under stress, the reaction of "fight or flight" response is triggered in the body, leading to the release of various hormones. We are stressed through constant unbearable demands at work or that we are truly in danger, our body reacts as if we were about to be harmed and need to fight for our existence.

To respond to this need, we are experimenting a burst of energy, changes in our metabolism in the bloodstream, and other variations.

If you stay in this state for an extended period through chronic stress, your health is at risk. Apart from many other dangers, chronic stress can also cause weight gain - that is why some products as "CortiSlim" are marketed as weight loss products.

Chronic stress and cortisol may contribute to weight gain in the following ways:

Metabolism: Do you feel as if you are likely to put more weight when stressed, even if you eat the same amount of food than usual? Too much cortisol can slow your metabolism, causing weight gain. This also makes it sparingly difficult regime.

The Cravings: People in chronic stress tend to like salty and sweet foods. This includes sweets, processed foods and other things that are not as good for you. These foods are generally less safe and lead to accelerated weight gain.

Blood glucose: Prolonged stress can affect your blood sugar in the blood, causing mood swings, fatigue and diseases such as hyperglycemia. Too much stress is even linked to metabolic syndrome, a set of health concerns that can lead to more serious health problems such as heart attacks and diabetes.

Fat storage: Excessive stress affects even where we tend to store fat. Greater levels of stress are related to greater levels of abdominal fat. Regrettably, abdominal fat is not only aesthetically undesirable, but it is linked to greater health risk than fat stored in other areas of the body.

The Bulimia compensation: High cortisol levels can give you not only want to unhealthy foods, but the excess neural activity can often make you eat more than you normally would. How much times did you found yourself scouring the kitchen for a snack, or absently snacking on junk food when stressed, but did not really hungry?

The Fast Food - Experts believe that one of the main reasons we are seeing more obesity in our society these days is that people are too stressed and busy to make healthy dinners at home and often opt for fast food.

Too busy for sports: With all the requirements of your program, the exercise can be one of the final things on your to-do list. If this is the case, you are not alone. Many people live a more sedentary lifestyle than we have in past generations, but our minds seem to race from all we have to do. Unfortunately, staying in traffic, Pointing to our offices, and end of day across the frozen TV to exhaustion, sport is often abandoned.

Luckily there are things that you can to do to restore the reason for weight gain and actually decrease your stress and your waistline at the same time.

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