How to Get out of the “Stress→eat→stress” Cycle

Modern urban life, there are a lot of unhealthy habits are gradually jeopardizing our health, such as uncontrolled intake of high-calorie greasy food, contrary to the normal rules of sleep …… and stress and rhythmic disorders are invariably affecting our body, obesity has also become the most intuitive performance.Currently some studies on metabolism, have revealed the fact that stress and body rhythm disorders can lead to obesity.

What is stress obesity?

We commonly known as stress fat, overworked fat, in fact, in the cause of all have a common point, that is, high-pressure environment produces obesity, this situation is both men and women, women appear around the age of 25, men are more prone to stress fat after the age of 30.

When a person grows up and leaves school and enters the society, the rapidly changing environment and the coming events unknowingly bring pressure to the person.Work, marriage, parenting, all these factors are superimposed together, psychological fluctuations are very easy to make people feel stressed from time to time.For women, the hormonal changes brought about by the physiological cycle can exacerbate emotional and psychological problems.

In a “stressful” situation, many people will have over-eating or loss of appetite.Stressed people, like a taut spring, in the acute stress response, such a psychological state will produce a chain reaction, the human body’s neuro-endocrine system through a series of stimulus response caused by the body’s hormone balance changes.

What causes stress obesity?

When focusing on stress fat people and exploring the causes of their fattening, it is not difficult to realize that the biggest reason is their over-reliance on comfort foods and their bad habit of overeating.”Eating is the best cure”, comfort food refers to those foods that can make people feel soothed or happy, usually high in sugar, high in fat or childhood favorites, such as cakes, milk tea, barbecue and so on.When a person is in a state of stress, they will unconsciously continue to eat more, leading to obesity.

Obesity and fatigue brought about by the vicious circle is also very scary, due to the impact of stress, the human body’s cortisol secretion disorders, accompanied by metabolic problems, in the superimposed negative effects, and will intensify the stress response, which is why it is easy to get fat once the positive growth of the more tired, the more you eat the more fat.Specifically, stress hormones, especially glucocorticoid levels rise, a direct result of the human “appetite”, its secretion is like opening the “want to eat you eat more” gate, greatly increasing the human carbohydrates, fats and other energy-supporting materialsdemand for energy-supplying substances such as carbohydrates and fats.

However, this is an incorrect signal, which breaks the body’s energy demand-consumption balance, it is easy to overeat problems, which in turn leads to fat gain, weight gain, and become a member of the stress fat people.A team of scientists from Cornell University pointed out, “Chronic release or disruption of the release cycle of the stress hormone glucocorticoids can trigger a range of metabolic problems.For example, increased growth of fat cells and insulin production, which can enhance the body’s absorption of sugar from the bloodstream.”

For the majority of modern urban population, sedentary is also the cause of “stress obesity”.Staying in a seat for a long time without moving is one of the globally recognized harmful lifestyles.The hazards of prolonged sitting are all-encompassing: the body’s blood circulation and respiratory gas exchange slows down, and the metabolic rate decreases.Long-term incorrect sitting posture will also cause bone and muscle damage to the cervical spine, lumbar spine disorders, neck muscle strain, lower back pain and other representatives of the urban white-collar occupational disease is so.Sedentary lack of exercise, sedentary just want to lie flat, in this way, obesity naturally find the door.

How rhythm disorders can make your body fat？

A recent paper published in Cell Reports looks at the relationship between rhythms and obesity.The team found that, just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the cells inside our bodies follow a strict rhythmic clock.For example, in the absence of significant fluctuations in circadian rhythms, fat precursor cells respond to signals that trigger fat cell proliferation (which occurs primarily at night).In other words, when we artificially break this rhythm, staying up late at night and sleeping in the morning will cause this shift to not go smoothly, and fat will tend to accumulate excessively, and a person’s mood will be affected in an unpositive way.

As you can see, it is extremely important to control your weight, maintain a good mood and follow a normal rhythm of life and work.Many people who have been in a state of high pressure for a long time, have sleep disorders, which is caused by the sympathetic nerves in a constant state of excitement.In turn, sleep deprivation affects will normal metabolism, exacerbating the supply-consumption imbalance of energy, bringing about a sense of fatigue and an inability to engage in physical activity and burn fat.

How to avoid obesity caused by stress and rhythm disorders

In the face of stress and rhythmic disorders caused by obesity, “management of stress” is naturally put in the first place.”Pressure is power” concept, we should be more correct to face pressure, learn to adjust their emotions, try to avoid getting into the emotional quagmire.At the same time, never again “pressure for appetite”, regardless of the intake of high carbohydrate, try to consume more protein, healthy fats, fruits, vegetables and non-gluten grains.

Of course, effective exercise should not be missing.Low to moderate intensity aerobic exercise (running, swimming, etc.) are great for balancing hormones and boosting metabolism, as well as boosting immune system function, slowing down aging, and helping to sleep better.

Finally, a good night’s sleep, adequate sleep not only reduces the prevalence of myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage and other cardiovascular diseases, but also helps to keep fit.

When “stress fat” has become a common disease of modern people, when the rhythm disorder has become the state of many people, when obesity has become a problem of great concern to the public, how to return to a healthy life and maintain a good state of mind, it is worth thinking about.