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Lose Weight, And Lose Stress Too

4th February, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments

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.. How a person deals with the problems can create more problems. Stress can lead to unhealthy problems for a person. 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. Another effect is that a person is more sluggish and finds it more difficult to find the desire to workout. Food is one method that someone might use to relieve the pressure that is created. That means because of some stress that they are feeling they feel the need to eat to relieve the stress. Researchers have said that being stressed is not good for a body and can lead to maladies such as hypertension.

There are a multitude of things that are hawked in the media on a daily basis that will provide us with the perfect body. 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. We are told that in no time at all, we will reach our goals and it just costs a few pennies a day. It doesn’t take long to write a check, and then we sit back until its arrival. We feel stress waiting for the package to get there so we can start our way to the perfect body. Unfortunately, even though we eagerly awaited the arrival of what we plan to use, it often falls into disuse and we don’t achieve our desired results. More stress is added because we wasted the money, and are reminded of our failure each time we look in the mirror and say we need to lose weight.

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. Just like the product we bought one late night, we follow the ideas that are written. 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. Despite our efforts to stay on a diet, some holiday or special event arrives and even though we want to follow the plan the lure of something else is too strong. Often times the desire overtakes our willpower, and the next day the guilt appears. The bad decisions we make one day come back to haunts us in the future making the diet even more stressful.

It does not help to feel stress when you are trying to lose weight, but it is hard to avoid. It is not reasonable to think that we can get rid of all the pressures in our lives, but we can lessen them, and when we do that it makes a weight loss program work better. Each person must accomplish it differently. Some people join a club to offer them support and help shoulder the stress. Others find that support by joining a chat group such as the ones that can be found on The biggest loser forum. Reading or just sitting and relaxing provides relief for many people. It is not important how a person controls their stress. It is important for a person to do this. If a person is able to do this, then they will not only succeed in losing the desired weight, but they will enjoy the many benefits that come along with that.