How Stress Can Cause Weight Gain? The Role of Cortisol in the Body
Very often, when you want to lose weight, you think that intensive sports and introducing a proper diet will cause its decrease. You do not realize how seriously the stress influences your food choices but also changes on the biochemical level occurring in the body under stressful events. You are having problems at home or with deadlines at work. You are spending all day at work, drinking enormous amounts of coffee, skipping meals, rushing home, spending time in traffic, collecting kids from school …
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How to Overcome Physiological and Psychological Barriers to Weight Loss?
Excess body weight is the most important nutritional issue of our times, with two out of every three adults in Ireland currently classified as overweight or obese. Diet isn’t a one size fits all approach. A lot of my patients tried at least several diets to lose weight and the weight keeps coming back. Have you ever asked yourself:
”Am I willing to change eating habits?”
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What To Do If You Are a Stress Eater?
These are challenging times for many of us. We are having to live our lives in a completely different way from what we considered previously „normal”.
I wrote this blog article for some ideas on how to manage stress eating and what to eat (and what to avoid) when we are spending more time at home. It’s important to differentiate stress eating from disordered eating. If you feel that you have disordered eating tendencies, please feel free to contact me for more information.
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