As we all know, stress can have a real impact on weight loss. For some people stress can lead to emotional eating, or cause someone to lose weight from not eating.
This last week I was dealing with the latter. After the dissolution of my 8 year relationship with my former fiance, I lose 8lbs in one week. This is NOT healthy. Believe me I was thrilled to see the numbers, but it's time to get back to eating right and getting back to my exercise regimen.
I have lost a total of 34 pounds now, and dropped my BMI by over 4 points. Let's see what some exercise does to those numbers!!
Showing posts with label stress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stress. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Tips for Dealing with Stress
Life can be stressful. Stress causes a lot of health problems, and it lends itself to emotional eating and bad eating habits. It can also affect your sleep, your digestive system, your hormones, and even cause muscular tension.
Getting rid of stress can help alleviate many of those symptoms and more. Finding ways to de-stress is important for your health, both physically and emotionally.
Here's some suggestions for getting rid of stress:
1. Stop and take a 5 minute break when your are getting stressed out. Find somewhere quiet, take a couple deep breaths and try and push the stress out of your mind.
2. Write it down. Even if you just throw away the paper later, you'll feel better getting it out of you.
3. Take a relaxing shower or bath. Lock the door, ignore the kids and hubby or whatever and just let go.
4. Cleaning. I know it sounds crazy but I feel so much better after getting some housework done, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment.
5. Try a support group or therapy. Having someone who's not involved in your day to day life to vent to can really help.
6. This may sound silly but try playing games or cards. With friends or alone this can help take your mind of what's bothering you for a little while. Obviously limit time spent playing video games, or find a physical game, like football or volley ball.
7. The "I did list". Instead of writing a "to do list" make an "I did" list. I write down all the things I got done, and instead of seeing all the things I didn't get done on the list, I see a big list of things I did get done.
8. Listen to some music. I'm one of those people that likes to sing along and sometimes I'll even dance around if no one's about.
9. Call a friend and talk about something. You can talk about what's stressing you out or about anything, I bet you'll feel a little better afterwards.
10. Consider Yoga or meditation, if that's not your thing maybe just find a class that you want to try. It will give you a break from thinking about your stress causer, and give you a chance to meet new people.
11. Try and stay positive. Glass half full kind of thing you know? It's easy to let stress get the better of you if you're only looking for the bad things.
Of course no one can ever really relieve all their stress, but cutting it down as much as possible will improve your quality of life if nothing else.
Getting rid of stress can help alleviate many of those symptoms and more. Finding ways to de-stress is important for your health, both physically and emotionally.
Here's some suggestions for getting rid of stress:
1. Stop and take a 5 minute break when your are getting stressed out. Find somewhere quiet, take a couple deep breaths and try and push the stress out of your mind.
2. Write it down. Even if you just throw away the paper later, you'll feel better getting it out of you.
3. Take a relaxing shower or bath. Lock the door, ignore the kids and hubby or whatever and just let go.
4. Cleaning. I know it sounds crazy but I feel so much better after getting some housework done, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment.
5. Try a support group or therapy. Having someone who's not involved in your day to day life to vent to can really help.
6. This may sound silly but try playing games or cards. With friends or alone this can help take your mind of what's bothering you for a little while. Obviously limit time spent playing video games, or find a physical game, like football or volley ball.
7. The "I did list". Instead of writing a "to do list" make an "I did" list. I write down all the things I got done, and instead of seeing all the things I didn't get done on the list, I see a big list of things I did get done.
8. Listen to some music. I'm one of those people that likes to sing along and sometimes I'll even dance around if no one's about.
9. Call a friend and talk about something. You can talk about what's stressing you out or about anything, I bet you'll feel a little better afterwards.
10. Consider Yoga or meditation, if that's not your thing maybe just find a class that you want to try. It will give you a break from thinking about your stress causer, and give you a chance to meet new people.
11. Try and stay positive. Glass half full kind of thing you know? It's easy to let stress get the better of you if you're only looking for the bad things.
Of course no one can ever really relieve all their stress, but cutting it down as much as possible will improve your quality of life if nothing else.
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