Your patient's weight and stress
Believe it or not, your patients' weight and stress are linked and the fact that your patient is a stressed person may be the reason why they don't lose weight.
There are many factors beyond a positive energy balance that can cause weight gain, and among them are stress and anxiety. We tell you what science says about weight gain due to stress and anxiety. * A little stress can always be positive to help us stay alert, resolve situations within a time limit, or similar. However, the stress is not only acute and also has no end because it lasts for a long time. It can manifest itself with different signs that hinder your health. Anxiety, on the other hand, is the manifestation of stress even when the stressor has disappeared. Among the main causes of stress and anxiety are the combination of a vulnerable personality. This type of illness added to work or academic issues that become permanent stressors.
Why do some people gain weight due to stress?
Manifestations of stress affect different aspects of our body, and can, among other things, alter our lifestyle habits. The explanation of why we eat when we are stressed is the following: stress and anxiety generate general discomfort in our body. However, according to a study published a couple of years ago, the most caloric foods, such as those that concentrate sugar, are the ones that provide pleasure. And that’s why your body reaches for this type of junk food when you’re stressed. * Stress promotes excessive food intake because it completely alters our diet. Stress and anxiety can promote the consumption, in large quantities, of foods of poor nutritional quality and calories. On the other hand, symptoms of stress include insufficient or poor quality rest, often even insomnia. Stress produces hormonal changes that also promote the storage of fat in the body. We already see that in different ways, directly or indirectly, stress and anxiety lead to a change in habits.
This is how you can reduce stress if you want to lose weight or not gain weight
If your goal is to lose weight or at least not gain weight, follow a low-calorie diet. Or training hard can be very complex if stress persists in your daily life. Therefore, we propose first to reduce stress and thus anxiety, by putting the following tips into practice: Get organized and establish priorities: It is common to be surrounded by obligations and activities to carry out. But in order not to get overwhelmed by so many tasks to accomplish, the first thing is to establish priorities to carry them out according to their importance. Likewise, establishing dates and times, crossing out what has been done and marking what is pending can “relieve” our head of so many worries. Eat a healthy diet: If you want to control stress levels, a good diet full of antioxidants can help you. On the other hand, a diet rich in fat or in which junk food is the protagonist can add more stress to your days. * Exercise regularly: in the midst of so many obligations, the first thing we usually do is reduce physical activity. However, this increases stress instead of helping us reduce it, since exercise contributes to reducing its presence in different ways. Learn to say NO: denying commitments is something that should be viewed favorably, since it is part of the organization and management of responsibilities. Do relaxing activities: taking a few minutes to read something we like, listen to music or simply look at the sky can be very helpful. Rest as well as possible: having applied some of the previous tips, we can try to rest. Although we often underestimate its influence, stress can make us gain more weight than we think. **I give you 4 Key Practices to grow your practice but these classes will only be FREE today. CLICK here
