STRESS MANAGEMENT: How To Resolve Stress Eating Without Changing Anything

Some of you may wonder what on earth has nutrition to do with stress?

Nutritional stress is actually a major type of physical stress for 21st century people as our bodies and organs are forced to digest, assimilate and metabolize what we eat and drink.

Here are my questions:

• Do you load your body with toxic food, full of sugar, salt, fat and void of nutrients and vitamins?
  
• Do you eat on hurry?
  

Stress destroys the balanced state of your body which is state of health and wellbeing and foundation of longevity.

The goal of stress management and stress nutrition in particular is to help the body to restore balance.

When it comes to digestion here are mainly two important concepts for you to consider.

When you experience stress aka threat (real or perceived):

- you tend to have poor nutritional choices.

- there are several changes taking place in your digestive system.

Poor nutritional choices (junk, comfort food etc.) mostly manifest in a weight gain and consequently in more stress.

Let’s consider for a moment what is going on in your digestive system when you experience stress on regular basis?

Stress affects all your body systems but often the first thing to be affected is the digestive system. During the ‘flight or fight’ or stress reaction the digestion is not directly involved and it shuts down letting all blood to sustain respiration, heart and muscles – systems directly involved in the desired outcome – flight or fight.

When you eat when stressed, your body cannot deal with the food – first the food can’t be properly broken down and absorbed well because of the lack of digestive enzymes. The result is that the body becomes at once deficient in many nutrients and is unable to replace them adequately.

You can suffer from nausea, constipation, gas or bloating.

During those lucky times when you have digestive enzymes – the protective lining of mucus in your gastrointestinal tract is missing – enzymes digest gut’s lining instead of foods. You can suffer from gastritis and ulcers.

Lack of water leads to constipation or diarrhea.

When food is not processed quickly because you suffer from constipation, sticky residues can build up and block absorption of nutrients (as you read you already lack them) and eventually allow toxins to be reabsorbed into the bloodstream. You can experience headaches, migraines and bad skin conditions.

As well as problems with concentration, anxiety and insomnia.

Many of the health disorders that arise from stress are the result of nutritional deficiencies, especially deficiencies of the B vitamin complex, which is very important for proper functioning of the nervous system and is depleted by the body’s stress response.

Stress depletes your reserves of others micronutrients as well - potassium, phosphorous, magnesium, zinc, B vitamin complex, iron, chromium, calcium.

Stress promotes the formation of free radicals, so you have to intake more antioxidants such as vitamin C, A and E.

Good news!

Your body is a great self-repairing machine and is able to heal itself. For self-repairing you need special fuel – one that provides you with all necessary macro and micro nutrients: healthy food.

The best solution for busy stressed out professional is Healthy Meal Delivery.

Fortunately, there are things you can do not only to reverse the stress related health damage but actually reduce your stress level and your waistline at the same time.

I recommend Relora.

Relora a natural dietary supplement was developed to improve mood, help stressed individuals relax, and to normalize the hormones related to stress-induced eating. 80 percent of stressed adults studied feel more relaxed with Relora. Relora has also been shown in a pilot study to normalize cortisol levels in stressed individuals.

Preliminary findings suggest that Relora can decrease the cravings for high fat, high sugar foods in stressed individuals, most likely due to its ability to normalize stress hormone levels that cause these cravings.

Works equally well with male and females as a stress reducer and stress related weight control supplement.

About the Author

Dr.Inese Millere is an action-oriented Stress Management coach and consultant who assist professional women in creating stress management and work life balance strategies, and healthy lifestyle routines for longevity.

If you'd like to talk about coaching with me, please contact me directly at info@action4balance.com with a brief description of your situation.