Stress is More Fattening than Ice Cream!

   

Stress is More Fattening than Ice Cream!

One of the most important ways to stay young looking, and feel your best, is to be at your ideal weight. That can be challenging in this stressful world, because stress is more fattening than ice cream, chocolate, candy, popcorn, and bread! 

The reason for this is that stress releases a very powerful hormone that signals the body to stock up on food and take a break.This hormone is Cortisol, and its the body's way of slowing us down so that we don't burn out. The result is that we feel tired, sluggish and hungry - so we feel like lying around, watching TV and eating carbs, sugar and other comfort foods. 

Worse yet, Cortisol tells the body to go into fat storage, and to store far in the adipose tissue of the abdomen, making a person look more and more like an avocado on tooth picks. And when the majority of weight is in the abdomen it can lead to storing fat on the inside of the abdominal cavity, which is dangerous and may lead to diabetes and heart disease.

One of the biggest ironies is that people go on diets to lose weight - and dieting is stressful! It makes as much sense as deciding you want to save money - then throwing your dollar bills out of a car, driving down the highway. It's counterproductive. 

Dieting is ranks #7 among the top 10 stressors! Dieting forces you to think and act in ways that are totally foreign and not natural. And dieting by it's very nature is something you do for a while, then stop. 

So if you eat because you feel stressed out, then go on a diet, you are compounding the problem even more, because you're then doing the 7th most stressful human thing on the stress charts. 

And if you've failed to lose weight by dieting more than once, now you have created a pattern for failure that gets more and more ingrained, and will likely continue until you change your strategy.

The solution to this self perpetuating pattern? Learning to think, act and respond differently. There are different ways to do this, but the one I recommend the most is guided imagery, relaxation, and/or hypnosis. In that relaxed state, you can adopt the habits, attitudes and behaviors of a "naturally thin" person. 

If you want more information, or 30 days of free access to to an entire library of audios that will help you to become a naturally thin person by simply listening to sessions that will allow you to automatically change your reactions and knee jerk reactions to food and the stressors that make you want to eat, just write me at diannawhitley@gmail.com Hypnosis helps to change the way you think, act and respond to your world and your environment in a virtually stress free way.

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