Worrying About Losing The Battle Of The Bulge
Posted on February 6th, 2010
While I watched the show the Biggest Loser the other night, I heard one of the trainers say that if you are stressed, it can cause you to gain weight.. The stress you feel can cause many things. Most of these things are not healthy for your body. The effects of stress include water retention, and that will mean that it will take more hard work to lose the pounds that you desire. Because of this, a person must expend more energy than if there wasn’t as much stress. The results of feeling this way include wanting to lay around more and do the work necessary to lose the weight less. Food is one method that someone might use to relieve the pressure that is created. When we eat to lower the stress level, we often make choices that are not in our best interests. It is well documented that stress can cause major health issues such as heart problems.
The television bombards us everyday with the newest weight-loss product, or exercise machine. If you are watching television late at night it is hard to miss the next great machine that will help you do the perfect six pack ab exercises. For only $19.95 you are guaranteed the perfect body in just thirty days. We buy these products with our hard earned money and eagerly await their arrival. We feel stress waiting for the package to get there so we can start our way to the perfect body. The reality is that these products are not effective unless we use it, and after the initial excitement recedes so does the amount of time spent with what we had bought. Because we put out cash for the product we feel guilty about not using it, and it joins a group of other things in the things were going to do pile.
If it is not an infomercial that is selling some machine that gets us, it is the diet book that promises us the secret to how to lose weight fast that catches our eyes. Again we have good intentions and work very hard to get the needed food that the book suggests. We expend a lot of time and energy to get the suggested items and analyze everything we do on a daily basis. Starting a diet is hard work and hard work is stressful. Unfortunately for anyone who tries to follow these special programs, real life interrupts and leads us to be tempted to deviate from the plan. We give into our wants, despite all the stress the decision causes. The bad decisions we make one day come back to haunts us in the future making the diet even more stressful.
Despite our best intentions not to worry about losing weight, losing weight causes us to worry. In order to successfully diet a person has to realize that they can not eliminate all of the stress in their life, but they can control the stress. Just because someone tells them what they did to successfully lose weight, does not mean it will work for someone else. It is helpful if you can find a support group that will take some of the emotional weight that is carried when trying to lose some pounds. Others find that support by joining a chat group such as the ones that can be found on The biggest loser forum. Some people find support through music and spending quiet time alone. It doesn’t matter what you do to ease the burden that is felt. Reducing stress cannot be avoided. Anyone who is able to reduce their stress, can shed the extra pound that they want to and will also be able to stick around this life longer because of it.
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