Decrease Stress,Increase Weight Loss

[unknown1]

A major lifestyle improvement is stress reduction or at least better stress management. Due to social pressures, men suffer more than their fair share of stress - both financial and work-related. This is bad news for all men, especially those aged 40 years or over. Because any stress which leads to a feeling that life is out of control, is a major contributor to disordered eating, excessive alcohol intake and disease. Also, excessive stress leads to increased production of the hormone cortisol, which stimulates fat storage around the middle, and leads to an increased risk of heart disease. Moving to a less stressful job, reducing your work schedule, or taking regular physical exercise will help you to normalize your weight and boost your general health. Spending more time with your family is also a great stress reliever. Yes, money and career are important, but not as important as your health. Remember the words of the poet Emily Dickinson:

"Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me."

 

[partha2009]

Stress is a Real Killer!

I could not agree more with you. Stress, fatigue take a toll upon one's health, so badly that it cannot even be measured accurately by scientific studies on human beings. Excess stress, releases greater amount of cortisol hormone and since there are four times the number of cortisol receptors than elsewhere in the body, fat increases in our abdomen. Cortisol mainly promotes fat storage and breakdown of muscle tissue.

Stress is one of the major causes behind signs of premature aging, senility and death.

 

[Korrie]

I would like to disagree with the part that "men suffer more than their fair share of stress-both financial and work related".

What a crock. Women work just as much as men now adays. If anything, women have more stress than men because when they come home from their 8 or 12 hr dys THEY are responsible still for providing meals and caring for the kids while most men reach for the remote.

 

[Weight Loss]

Exercise is definitaly a great way to reduce stress. Whenever I get stressed out I take that frustration out at the gym. I feel great afterwards like a weight was lifted off of me.

Stay motivated and keep striving for your weight loss goals!

 

[nonifloss]

Some women have the same stresses as men and vice versa. Stress is not a competition between sexes, it is not about status, more a competition with yourself and how you handle it.