How stress affects your body

Stressing more about your life only recycles the negative emotions and impacts the body physically. When we worry about our body, skin, relationships, food or life, it brings our body into a stressed state. In that stressed state, we cannot heal as easily. It is counterproductive.

Any health or nutritional strategy that stresses us out (that may be too hard to follow- think diet or plan) will lead to the stressed response which will in turn not allow us to get healthy.

We know already that you can eat all the healthiest foods but if you are not in a healthy relaxed calm state, you won't get the full benefits of that meal.

We know that a stressed state means a more sympathetic nervous system dominance state, which means increased heart rate, decreased digestive function, decreased healing and repair, increased blood pressure. Therefore, when we eat in that state, we are not getting the full benefits it provides (no matter how healthy the food).

Now, stress can be real or imagined. Guilt or shame about something can be a stress on the body. Therefore, eating something that you believe is "bad" will affect your metabolism. So, if you are consciously choosing to eat that food. Release the guilt! Eat the food. You will digest it better.

Release the attacking thoughts.

YOU can choose.

YOU are in control of your mind.

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