Weight Loss For Foodies Podcast | Ditch The Diet And Lose Weight With Shari Broder

You’re not imagining it.  Stress makes people want to eat.  If you’re an emotional eater, when you’re stressed out, you’re more likely to feel the urge to eat. That’s because when your body feels stress, it produces certain stress hormones which cause you to crave comfort foods.  Sometimes, stress might kill your appetite because the stress hormone adrenaline puts you in a state of fight or flight.  When stress is chronic, however, the opposite happens.   Too much stress upsets your hormonal balance, making it harder to lose weight and easier to gain it.  This is made even worse by the overconsumption of simple carbohydrates, which are sugary snacks like candy bars and soda. They also can cause a hormone imbalance.  Basically, being consistently stressed out for a long period of time causes your body to produce an assortment of hormones that make it more likely that your body will store fat instead of using it for energy, and cause you to want to eat more.  Stress also seems to affect your food preferences, m