Stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, weight loss and hormones
Why does stress, anxiety and burnout cause weight gain?
Stress and anxiety affects your metabolism, causes weight gain and sabotages your weight loss efforts. This is something that researchers are well aware of. It is something that many women have experienced after a traumatic time in their life - the sudden weight loss, and then the subsequent steady weight gain. But for many women it's the everyday stress, anxiety and burnout that contributes to the constant weight gain and sabotages their weight loss efforts.
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How does stress, anxiety and burnout cause weight gain and sabotage your weight loss?
To keep it simple, your adrenal glands provide you with crucial hormonal support needed to get through the day with energy.
Your adrenal hormones can even change your body shape! If you have been under stress, it is most likely that you have gained weight and experienced a change in your body shape such as tummy fat that won’t budge and heavier thighs. You may even have found that your breasts have become larger and are sore and painful.
So what's the concern? Your adrenal glands are important in the long-term maintenance of your hormone levels.
Naturopathic treatment of weight gain caused by hormonal imbalance during stress is successful and has helped many women heal their symptoms and achieve weight loss naturally. The best part is, it’s available online!
Salivary Hormone Testing for Stress
By completing my full online naturopathic health and hormone test, I will invest no less than 45 minutes piecing together your symptoms and really pinpoint what hormones are causing your weight gain and other health complaints. If I feel that further salivary or blood testing via you GP is required, I will make those recommendations.
For example, as part of the process of compiling a natural weight loss program for you, I may suggest measuring hormone levels by using salivary hormone test kits, available from my clinic. Salivary hormone test kits can assist in the proper diagnoses of hormonal imbalances contributing to weight gain and conditions such as Fatigue, PCOS, Fibroids, Endometriosis, Cyst, Menopause and Thyroid imbalance. To find out more about salivary hormone testing please click here.
Stress and cortisol cause weight gain
Stress causes elevated cortisol levels. When functioning normally, cortisol helps you meet these challenges by converting proteins into energy, releasing glycogen and counteracting inflammation. For a short time, that's okay.
But at sustained high levels, cortisol gradually tears your body down.
Sustained high cortisol destroys healthy muscle and contributes to conditions such as heightened menopause, poor fertility, thyroid imbalance and ovarian imbalances such as PCOS, fibroids and endometriosis.
One of cortisol's many functions is that it stimulates the release of glucose, fats and amino acids for energy production. It will also keep your appetite stimulated triggering cravings. In addition, the type of fat that accumulates because of this stress-induced appetite will typically locate itself in the abdominal region of your body.
Stress contributes to weight gain primarily because of an excess secretion of the key stress hormone cortisol, along with a reduced secretion of the key hormone Dehydroepiandrosterone, or DHEA. DHEA is a steroid hormone synthesised from cholesterol and secreted by your adrenal glands.
Stress can also play a role in stimulating your cravings due to elevated cortisol levels.
Cortisol stimulates the release of glucose, potentially contributing to metabolic syndrome & subsequent weight gain. By stimulating your appetite it can leave you craving carbohydrates and sugars. Something you don't need when you are trying to shed kilos as it will certainly sabotage your weight loss efforts.
This rebound effect is often incorrectly labeled as emotional eating. Although some of us do eat for comfort, often the cravings are ravenous & uncontrollable sabotaging your weight loss. If this is happening to you, it could be your hormones!
Stress and thyroid hormone imbalance cause weight gain
Stress caused my weight gain by slowing my thyroid, but by balancing my hormones I got better again and lost weight naturally! Read my story
Research also supports high cortisol (hypercortisolism) levels in the bloodstream can have an effect on thyroid function by directly inhibiting the production of TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) and also inhibiting the conversion of T4 to T3.
In addition, women can suffer from insomnia during stress and when you are deprived of sleep, cortisol (a hormone commonly released in response to physical or emotional stress) is released at an increased level and stimulates your appetite causing weight gain.
Hormones associated with stress slow your metabolism causing weight gain.
This is why balancing your hormones and boosting your metabolism is the secret to natural weight loss with stress.
Stress stops your weight loss efforts. But with my help you can ...
- Lose Tummy Fat Naturally
- Lose Arm Fat Naturally
- Lose Weight off Your Bottom Naturally
- Lose Weight off Hips and Thighs Naturally
- Lose and Reduce Breast Size Naturally
Here are my steps to weight loss during stress:
Step 1. Identify what factors are contributing to your hormonal imbalance.
Step 2. Teach you what food sources you should be avoiding.
Step 3. Guide you to implement a targeted nutritional treatment plan specifically tailored to your biochemical profile to balance hormones.
Step 4. Introduce targeted natural remedies to improve hormonal balance and painful, heavy periods.
Step 5. Give you access to a professional support network that, together, will guide and help you to change unhealthy lifestyle choices that contribute to your condition.
The best approach for you:
- Book in your FREE Naturopathic Review.
- Commit yourself to a comprehensive program with me that will include vitamins, herbs and minerals specifically chosen for you to balance your hormones.
- Make use of our support network made up of fully registered and accredited health professionals.
So many women have joined MassAttack and been successful. The key is to learn the truth about hormones and the truth about the foods that can work against your weight loss efforts.
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