When your body is under mild to moderate stres, an endorphin named dynorphin is released, which is a powerful appetite stimulant. If you eat to release your stress, dopamine is released, which increases your level of comfort. To sum it up, You are under stress, so you eat food, and feel comforted.
What can you do to eliminate these binges while under daily stress you may encounter?
- Eliminate starches, sugars, and fats from diet and it will decrease your food cravings.
- If you believe your food binging due to stress is becoming dangerous, speak to your Physician
- Read the book, Anatomy of a Food Addiction:The Brain Chemistry Overeating by Anne Katherine.
- I personally try and stay active when I'm stressed and out of the kitchen. If I can physically occupy my mind, the craving for food does not take over.
1 comment:
I think that it is very interesting that when people become stressed, they do one of the two things: they either look to "comfort food" or they do not resort to food at all as a result of having a suppressed appetite. I feel that it all depends on the individual. Personally, when I become stressed, I tend to not have an appetite. I was extremely stressed out my senior year of college and I found that I lost ten to fifteen pounds because I was not that hungry. It is very interesting how stress effects people individually and their appetites.
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