Did you know that stress affects your weight?

Relax! Did you know that stress affects your weight? We have heard endlessly that eating calories, sugar, fat and all the delicious desserts will go to our hips or make us gain weight sooner or later. But there is more than one factor that causes overweight or obesity and you don’t just gain weight by eating, so relax and find out: Stress is a great enemy of man and at the same time it is a factor with which we normally live. Whether it’s work, school, family, or even just nonsense, we get stressed all the time. Just because stress is present in our daily lives does not mean that it is healthy or good. Risks Stress has been responsible for taking many lives causing heart attacks, but also, if you start to feel that your pants are tight and lately you have been under a lot of stress, let me tell you that, you may need to take a deep breath and relax. Yes, it is true that when one is stressed, one normally eats more, but it is not only hunger (sometimes compulsive) that causes weight gain, stress causes the body to release a hormone called hydrocortisone, this hormone in excess causes fat to accumulate in the abdominal area. This is not the only hormone involved, adrenaline, norepinephrine and cortisol are also involved in an attempt to stimulate the body to overexert itself, which causes the body to send signals that you need to constantly eat more in order to “survive”. (Remember that you make your body feel under threat). Now imagine if it is CONSTANT… Relationship with weight When this is a constant situation, the body not only makes you eat more, but it begins to save reserves, in case the “danger” situation worsens. Guess how that accumulation of extra energy in your body is represented: Overweight, Obesity, that is, excess body fat. Sleeping your respective 8 hours of rest and with a constant schedule, good nutrition and physical activity, in addition to relaxing and taking life with more philosophy, can lead you to have a better quality of life and lose weight more easily. Since you know that stress affects your weight, make changes in your life. No matter the difficulties, you are strong and you can get where you want, but you need to calm your mind to be able to make the right decisions at the right times and thus reach each of your goals.