Julie's Pages

Can STRESS make you fat!

   It was a long ride, and the excitement filled the air, as we drove to the event we were in charge that evening. This was going to be a night, of great expectations. We were going to be acknowledged this evening for the wonderful health benefits our amazing drink offered to so many.. The night started out with guest's sharing with us, their excitement of what they had heard from others, and we showed great eagerness in giving them a quick review, handing them testimonial's, brochures, and cd's.. Just as it was getting time for this event to start, a group of women approached our table, as we started to ask them their names.. As my sister began a conversation with one of the women, she stated to her, oh how exciting, when is your baby due?... BIG MISTAKE!...

When I turned 40 my own world turned upside down, as I watched my body of 110 pounds sky rocket up to 164 pounds by the time I was 51.. Never having any kind of weight problem, other than trying to keep the weight on.. Only weighing in at 105 to 110 most of my life, even after having 4 daughter's. Never one time, did I ever leave the hospital looking like I have just given birth. I was blessed with wow.. I just had a baby, and I don't have one pound to worry about.. la la la...

Well its been along climb, and I've spent many years trying to figure it all out.. I came across a very interesting article, in which I think you will agree explains pretty throughly about how stress can affect us, and our bodies, and some great idea's on how to keep it all under control..  This is a list of things I have introduced into my own life.. Hope this helps you as well.. Things have gotten much much better inmy world today..  I've learned that putting the right things in your body really helps too!! Take care of YOU!!!

* I take a protein drink in the morning's.

* I try every day to at least do some kind of exercise..

* Drink plenty of water

* I have started using a new product line for weight loss (I highly recommend)

* I have started to keep a chart on my counter, to write everything I eat.. (be accountable)..

* Trying to change my late hours into heading to bed alittle earlier.

* Reconizing the things I can change, and accepting the things I can not. (reducing the stress level)

* Making sure that I stay firm, on how I want to be treated, and not allowing nothing more

Below is the article I have found, along with a few other tid bits.. Have a wonderful life, and every day treat it as though it will be the last.. It helps to put things back into perspective... Any way It has helped me;...

Is stress making you fat? Adrenal balance and weight loss

 

 

Too often, women and their healthcare practitioners think weight loss is all about cutting calories and exercising more. But I have plenty of patients who’ve tried these avenues with no success. These women are genuinely trying to do everything “right” for their health. They exercise regularly, eat well, take their supplements, and so on. But they haven’t lost a pound, and they’re frustrated — and trust me, I know how they feel, because I’ve been there!

These patients are always surprised when I ask them about the stress in their lives, and they want to know, What does stress have to do with weight gain?

 

After years of chronic stress, our adrenal glands — which govern our stress response, help balance a woman’s blood sugar, and regulate many other of our body’s processes — can become imbalanced. Our adrenal glands are fundamental to our health, and when they are out of balance, the body prepares for disaster the best way it knows how — by storing calories. Genetically, some of us are more predisposed to this than others. But the good news is that if we restore the adrenals to their normal, healthy function, stubborn pounds often fall away without too much effort, and our energy returns.

Let’s take a closer look at the adrenal glands, then talk about solutions for healing your stress response — and finally getting rid of that stubborn weight.

How stress can make us gain weight... Read more here...

 

MOre To Consider... By popular demand...

Which stress type are you?

You should be able to recognise which type of the ones listed below comes closest to the way you react when under pressure.

MISS FRANTIC

Are you the sort who is:

• On edge, anxious, fidgeting and finding it difficult to relax, rarely sitting still?

• Restless and over-active, with tapping fingers and shaking legs?

• Always biting your nails and grinding your teeth at night?

• An efficient multi-tasker?

• Plagued by time and deadlines (you see every task as urgent)?

• Quick-talking, direct and to the point, eager to keep moving forward?

• Emotional, expressive and, at times, explosive?

• Wound-up and frantic when exhausted?

• Up early in the morning, but has trouble falling asleep and frequently wakes during the night worrying about the next day?

• Holds tension in shoulders and neck?

• Likely to respond to everything with anxiety?

• Forgetful?

• Prone to addictions?

• Prone to excessive exercise to burn up nervous energy?

• Slim but with a tendency for weight gain around the abdomen?

WHAT'S GOING WRONG

This very common stress type has everything in overdrive, either because the fight-or-flight response is activated too frequently (you are under unrelenting pressure) or, for some reason, she is unable to turn off properly. Whatever the reason, your body is on a higher state of alert - for a longer period of time - than it should be, and this will make you sick Although women in this category may be slim, your hormonal reactions mean you may have a tendency to store fat around your middle.

MISS SHATTERED

Are you the sort who is/was:

• Permanently exhausted and drained?

• Lacking the energy for any sort of multi-tasking?

• Too tired to exercise?

• Prone to comfort eating and gaining weight (particularly on the hips and thighs)?

• Apparently calm, but extremely stress- sensitive (the smallest trigger provokes a big response)?

• Bothered by little things that don't affect other people?

• Likely to retreat under pressure (rather than face problems head-on)?

• Always going to bed late, rarely waking feeling refreshed and finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning?

• Never getting enough sleep?

• Finds it hard to concentrate?

• Sometimes feels shaky?

• Troubled by general aches and pains?

• The product of a difficult or stressful pregnancy?

• Born prematurely, or a low birth weight?

• Had a tough time (divorce or death of parents; frequent house moves) in early childhood?

WHAT'S GOING WRONG

Your supply of stress hormones is woefully depleted, but the mechanisms that control your fight-or-flight response are in overdrive, which explains your sometimes extreme sensitivity to stress. Chemically, you are either unable to produce enough of the stress hormones or, for some reason, the normal, healthy daily rhythm of their production has been lost. This could happen if you have been exposed to chronic stress over a long period of time or if you experienced stress before you were born or in early childhood (for example, if you were born prematurely or your parents divorced when you were young).

MISS UP-AND-DOWN

You are an efficient multi-tasker (a bit like Miss Fidget), but you have an alarming tendency to become listless and exhausted at weekends or on holiday.

When the stress subsides, do you temporarily:

• Have boundless energy - until you stop?

• Fall sick on the first day of a holiday?

• Shut out the world when you collapse?

• Spend all day Saturday or Sunday in bed or on the couch?

• Need to feel isolated to restore yourself?

• Suffer profound fatigue and altered moods?

• Have no initiative?

• Have no motivation?

• Become listless, irritable and over-emotional?

• Have an inability to face the world?

• Have poor concentration?

• Have blurred vision?

• Experience exercise intolerance?

• Feel faint or nauseous?

• Become prone to dehydration?

WHAT'S GOING WRONG

Most of the time you are just like Miss Fidget, your body is on full chemical 'go' mode and you are efficient and ruthless with boundless energy. But in some people, this can deplete supplies of certain chemicals in the brain, resulting in profound exhaustion. You stop for a while, re-charge, then it's go, go, go again.

MISS DETACHED

Are you the sort who:

• Sees life as if through a thick fog?

• Feels detached from the world and withdrawn from people?

• Lacks energy, drive and motivation?

• Feels drained of all vitality and joy?

• Finds it difficult to express feelings (buried too deep to be accessed)?

• Doesn't feel like smiling?

• Rarely expresses pleasure or emotional pain?

• Talks in a flat, emotionless way?

• Feels bored and listless?

• Gets abdominal cramping and diarrhoea when stressed?

• Is quickly affected by small quantities of alcohol?

• Feels extremely sensitive to stress, but helpless and passive in face of adversity?

• Suffers from various aches and pains?

• Has a tendency to faint or feel lightheaded?

• Was a premature baby?

• Had a difficult childhood?

WHAT'S GOING WRONG

This is a rare extreme state caused by a severe imbalance of your body's stress mechanisms. Like Miss Shattered, your stress hormones are underproducing. But for you, this problem is combined with having to deal with the fact that the stimulating effect of your nervous system is blunted.

SICK OF WORK  Read more here

More than 415,000 women had to take sick leave last year because of work-related stress

How Women Change The World...

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Women. About their natural strengths and gifts, and how they are so often undervalued in our world. I am blessed with 4 remarkable daughter's and 4 remarkable sisters, my Mother Inlaw, and Mother, and my circle of friends from here on Facebook.. who has brought many years of joy into my life.... All of them creative, fearless, funny, loyal, loving; all of them fierce mother bears when they need to be. These are qualities that change lives; qualities that are changing our world.

I LOve this note....

Given a chance and a little hope, a woman will find a way to take care of her children. She will do what it takes to care for others’ children, as well. (If you are a girl, you know that this is absolutely the truth.) She will joyfully support the efforts of other women.

Together, they will figure out how to clothe, feed, and educate the young and the helpless.

They will sing together in the light of their kerosene lamps and laugh and cry together as they undertake the enormous task of rebuilding their communities.

They will fill their homes with color and love as they weave their torn and broken lives back together.

Women are amazing that way. And I am filled with hope when I remember the other women in my life, the joy and strength in those women.

What is it that really makes the world go ‘round, anyway? Is it money? Politics? Power? No. I absolutely believe that it’s much simpler than that (thank goodness). It’s….

hanging onto hope, no matter what recognizing, when no one else does, when someone needs a hand to hold
searching for joy, and always finding it somewhere creating something only you could envision nurturing and loving those who cannot take care of themselves being a real friend...

Women make the world go ‘round, by being brave enough to do whatever it takes to create a beautiful, light-filled world, wherever they may be. Love to all you beautiful women around the world.. May you always find happiness and warm place to lay your head... Love Jules