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The Connection: Stress and Weight Gain
The Connection: Stress and Weight Gain
by: Laura McDonald
How does stress make me gain weight?
Being “stressed out” is more than an emotional state, the body understands stress physically, and one of the ways your body deals with stress is by hoarding and storing calories, primarily in the form of fat around your belly.
This has much to do with the way we’ve evolved over centuries. In the wild our adrenals* immediately kicked into fight or flight mode when faced with danger...being chased by an animal, for example. Adrenaline and cortisol are released into the blood stream, giving us that superhuman strength and burst of energy produced from carbohydrates and fats. Our bodies would then stop this extra production once the threat was gone. This adrenal response can be life-saving and necessary to survive a true crisis, but in today’s modern society the problem is that this sequence of events takes place whether the threat is real or perceived. Women are inundated with stress that doesn’t let up, a low grade constant level without any recovery time.
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