Stress May Lead to Weight gain

While some amount of stress is essential and keeps you on your toes, too much stress can make you sick. It can also make you fat your state of health depends on how you respond to stress. Some people remain very calm and collected during most situatins. Stress has very little impact on the health of such individuals.

There are others who get anxious over issues like traffic jams, misbehaving kids, moody spouse, angry bosses, ageing parents, such people are most likely to suffer from stress related disorders like muscle fatiguye, loss of memory and intese food cravings. Uncontrolled stress in addition to causing disease also leads to self destroying eating habits.

Stress related eating behaviour.

Most people overeat when stressed and the weight usually accumulates around the waist for both men and women. Stress increases appetite in soem individuals and decreases appetite in others. Either ways they are undernourished and fall prey to immune disorders. Most people who over eat druing stress often find a release in destrucxtive habits like smoking and alcohol, which leads to nutritional deficiencies and weight gain. When such habits of overeating are followed over a peiod of time they wake up more tried, feel less energetic in the morning, feel the need to over sleep and feel exauseted, by mid afternoon. Such people find it hard to initiate themselves into exercise or even follow a healthy diet. They often consume fried food, high sugar food and lots of coffee. Eventually, the chornic stress in their lives along with their increased weight, makes them depressed. When they are treated with anti-depressants then tend to gain more weight.

Nutritiohn plays an important role in improving or worsenning daily stress. It was also observed that the rules of self care change as you age say around 45 as this is the second half of your life, for instance, you cannot eat the way you did when you were in your 20's because by this time your metabolism slows down. Your hormones behave diffferently. Your percentage of body, fat has gone up and so is the stress in your life.

The most important factor that everybody need to take into account is, eat food that is rich in fibre and complex carbs like whole wheat bread, brown rice and jowar. Fruits and vegetables provide loads of vitamin C, which is inimately involved detoxifyihg the chemicals. Citrus fruits like oranges, sweet lime, lemons, strwberries are packed with Vitamin C. Start using them instead of high fat food as snacks. You should not forget the only way to get rid of stress related weight gain is to develop physical fitness and make the above changes in your eating habits.