by Scott Edwards

Modern lifestyles that pile on the stress, and shrink down the sleep might just be making us fat! Most of us would put our hand up and admit that we really need a thirty six hour day to fit everything we do into twenty four hours. We become anxious and overwrought sorting through all of our challenges. And so we turn to eating, to counteract the pressure.

However, it now appears possible that there is a scientific correlation between times of stress and eating fattening food. Take a look at the following explanation of how tension can relate to putting on weight – The stress hormone cortisol is secreted when the body undergoes long periods of stress.

As a result, this stimulates the release of insulin in an effort to make our blood-sugar level stable. Insulin ups our appetite, and particularly makes us crave fats and carbohydrates. As we satisfy that need with high fats and carbs, we enjoy the energy high that we were craving so badly.

Temporarily the stress goes away, and all is well. But very soon afterwards, our energy boost plummets! This is because the insulin that was released extracts the glucose from our blood and dumps it into our fat storage areas (which are mostly round the waist!)

Thus if weight loss is your objective, first try to create a more harmonious lifestyle! It’s also thought that there could be a relationship between the amount of sleep we have each night and our weight. There was a time when the average person slept eight hours a night. This is no longer the case, with seven being optimistic for many today.

In conjunction with less sleep, we now have more obese people. Hormonal challenges are thought to relate the two things. If we’re run-down through lack of sleep, hormonal changes create hunger. As we have more waking hours, we become programmed to think we need to spend more time eating.

Obviously, when we’re tired, we feel the need for more fuel to energise ourselves, and once again we crave high fats and carbs. Sleeping for an additional hour a night could well re-program our appetite.

In short, gaining weight could have been more down to lifestyle than anything else. Why not ask others to take on some of your workload – delegation is often the answer. And so when night-time falls, you’re ready to drift off to sleep at a reasonable time, without fighting the desire for just one more snack!

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