How Stress Eating Primes your Body to Store Fat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nHere\u2019s how stress eating primes your body to store fat:
\n\u2022 While you\u2019re stressed out, your body produces the hormone cortisol as well as Neuropeptide Y. The cortisol increases your appetite. It\u2019s basically a hormone that is released when the body is under stressful conditions, therefore, the hormone causes hunger for high calorie foods that are high in sugar and fat.<\/p>\n
This causes over-eating. The cortisol further reduces the metabolism of these foods and promotes the storage of these foods because the body sees stress as a signal that food may not be available in the future, even though you may be stressed about matters other than food. It\u2019s the body\u2019s natural instinct to store food reserves in the form of fat when under any kind of stress.<\/p>\n
\u2022 During this time, your body also produces the hormone insulin. The insulin produced further enhances the conversion of the carbohydrates you eat into fat and also enhances the uptake and storage of fats in fatty tissues.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Neuropeptide Y produced by the brain\u2019s emotional center, called the amygdala, also prompts a person to eat foods rich in carbohydrates, which, in turn, is stored in the form of fat in the body.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Moreover, it\u2019s pretty common not to keep an eye on your food and over-eat while you\u2019re stressed out, which further increases the caloric intake, resulting in obesity.<\/p>\n
This is how stress eating primes your body to store fat. The next time you\u2019re stressed out, find another outlet to take it all out, an outlet that doesn\u2019t involve eating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever found yourself endlessly munching down bags of chips while preparing for your exams or gobbling up on ice cream while having a stressful day? Well, this phenomenon of eating a lot more while you\u2019re stressed out is called stress eating and it\u2019s not good for your body! VIEW VIDEO HERE How Stress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[186,95,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-fat","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-stress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}