Stress and Your Weight
Here’s episode 6 of the “Skinny on Obesity” series. It’s more conventional thinking than before: Stress makes you eat more.
Thats’s probably true, but it almost misses a bigger point. What kind of food do we eat in a “fast-paced, fast food life”? The food that is available everywhere, 24-7. The high sugar, high starch industrial food.
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/96/5/1478.abstract
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Good for you, Cate!
You know, this 5% rule is a very simple beginners advice, its probably more important how many grams you eat of an perticaly food!
So its about how many gram of carbs you eat and can coop with!
And I think that wee almots use Chia as a laxative??
I do believe in the stress factor, though. My husband is a teacher and works at least 15 hours a day and rarely gets more than 5 hours sleep per night and in spite of the fact that I prepare (very) low carb breakfasts and lunches and dinners for him, he still feels that he is inexorably gaining weight.
This series just seems to leave me with the feeling that I can't do anything about obesity myself but that instead I need the government to do it for me. It is all hopeless and we just need to call our government to solve another problem. They do such a great job at doing that by the way (sarcasm). To me it just goes against the wonderful empowerment and "can do" attitude that I get when I read all of the great low carb blogs like this one.
I am working with several people right now just as friends to help them achieve the weight loss and health gain that I have been able to achieve doing a low carb and high fat diet. Your videos have been a wonderful help Doctor. I won't be sharing The Skinny on Obesity videos with them because I don't see it helping them.
No animal in the wild has to be "mindful" about eating. When an animal is eating the natural diet that it evolved to eat, it experiences the correct hormonal regulation of appetite. Human beings are no different whatsoever.