Mark Beaird | Sharing God's Message of Hope and Healing
Mark Beaird | Sharing God's Message of Hope and Healing
Mark Beaird | Sharing God's Message of Hope and Healing

How Stress Can Affect Your Weight

Gyms and fitness centers are full this time of year, yet unfortunately many will drop out of the pursuit of fitness in a few months because of a failure to experience anticipated results, demands on their time, distractions, job demands and even because they received just enough benefits to relieve the pressing issue about the way they felt or looked. What ends up happening is that the problem of being "out of shape" or overweight is addressed on a superficial level. They "feel better" for the present, but end up back in the same place in a few months. Why?

The reasons are numerous but I only want to address one—stress. The reason many feel better when exercising regularly is because exercise helps reduce stress. Nevertheless, it does not eliminate it. Consequently, many exercise and feel better, but come up short of some weight loss goals because they are still stress eating or comforting themselves with food! The fact is that many need to make life and behavioral changes in addition to adding exercise and changes in diet, because if the stress is not dealt with it can undermine your health improvement efforts. Consider the following steps:

Dealing with the source of your stress will make so many things you do easier. You do not have to have the perfect plan, but you do have to have a plan and you have to work it. Adjust it. Alter it. But stick to it!