Belly Fat and Stress
When you are under stress, whether it is mental or physical stress chronic stress leads to more fat, less muscle and more BELLY FAT.
|
 |
Trauma, injury and surgery are also major stressors to the body (Note: much of the research done on cortisol and stress has been done on recovering patients, and such findings may not carry over to healthy, athletic populations).
Belly Fat and Stress: Fight or Flight
Cortisol is one of the Fat Storing Hormones that specifically creates belly fat. Cortisol is released as a response to stress.
In the short term, stress can even help fat loss. But when there is chronic cortisol release, belly fat, specifically, is created.
Why? Because abdominal fat has a very rich blood supply and is loaded with cortisol receptors. Cortisol has much more receptors for cortisol than other fat and so responds to cortisol faster and stronger than other fat. Abdominal fat has four times more cortisol receptors than other body fat. Throughout the day your cortisol levels increase and decrease according to what you are faced with throughout the day.
By reducing the amount of stress your nervous system is producing on a constant basis, you can reduce the amount of chronic cortisol being released. By doing this, you start to see your belly fat decrease.
Belly Fat and Stress: Exercise Causing Belly Fat
A lot of people are exercising too strenuously and thus causing too much cortisol to be released! Their exercise is causing them to be fat! To get belly fat! There is a way to find out exactly what kind and how intense and how frequently you should exercise to lose belly fat.
Everyone is different. So the exercise you do should be tailored to your level of health and fitness to burn fat. If it is not, fat will not be burned. That is one of the main reasons why exercising does not produce results for people.
For exercise use my "Best Exercise To Lose Weight" to guide you and also use the “Heart Rate Recovery Test” to see how your heart rate recuperates from stress.
Sleep and Get Thin
Sleep more. Sleep deeper. If have to take melatonin, do it. Sleep earlier rather than wake up later.
Snack More
Eat more frequently. Eat sooner rather than more later. Don’t let yourself get hungry.
Eat Breakfast
The greatest amount of cortisol is in the morning when you wake up. Eating a good healthy and nutritious breakfast will lower the amount of cortisol in your blood. After sleeping a night you have effectively fasted for many hours. This is stressful on your nervous system.
Coaching
If you are interested in coaching for fitness, or weight loss you can contact me HERE ...
Metabolism Makeover
Any exercise for natural weight loss should be used as part of a comprehensive weight loss program that focuses of restoring health first to lose weight. Know how to use it will save you time, money and hassle because you don't have anymore guess work. I lay it out for you. It is all in this book. If you are interested check out Metabolism Makeover.
 |
Question or Comment?
Ask Me Here!
Return from "Belly Fat And Stress" to "Natural Weight Loss" Home Page
Are You a Member of Facebook?
Share this with someone you care about! Click in the link below and you can chose who on Facebook you want to share it with.
You can also become a Metabolism Makeover fan!
Pay It Forward!
There a lot of people that have become disillusioned by poor weight loss and health information. I can understand this feeling. But it does not mean that good information is NOT out there. It is.
Please help a friend or loved one by sharing this information with them. Email this link to them or submit this page to your Tweet account, or Facebook or your favorite social bookmarking or networking site. Use the links below to pay it forward.
