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Lose Weight-Are You STRESSING About It

Lose weight; how do I lose weight? It's the number one question that people Google; it's the number one question that people ask their doctor. It's the number one question that people ask when they go to the gym, or they see a personal trainer.

Do you Wonder how we get Stressed thinking about Food and Exercise?

Do you think that we are getting a little bit stressed about the whole thing? I have to lose weight. I have to be a specific size. I have to have a certain body fat percentage. I have to wear clothes that look a certain way.

And then we stress about what percentage of macronutrients. Do I eat lots of protein? Am I having too much carbohydrate? Are carbohydrates going to make me fat? Should I be on the ketosis diet and my brain is running on ketones? Should I be fasting intermittently? Have I left enough time between the last time I ate food and now? What time of the day should I be exercising? What time of the day should I be eating?

Should I be exercising first thing in the morning? Should I be exercising every five minutes? Should I be exercising at the gym seven days a week or three days a week? Should I be doing high-intensity interval training or should I be doing long distance, slow distance training, so I burn fat faster? What should I be doing? I am getting stressed.

Oh, and then there is this stimulating hormone called cortisol. It's the stress hormone. So when we get stressed about anything, our unique human body is designed to get rid of stress. It's the hormone that gets us ready for fight and flight. It gets us prepared to run away from the dragon that is trying to kill us or gets us ready to fight it. And then we kill it, eat it, and we feel fantastic.

And then we have happy drugs pumping through our brain like dopamine, serotonin and brain-derived neurotrophic factors because we either went for a run or we did some fighting, and we feel fantastic. The small challenge here is that cortisol - fight and flight drug - is produced when we are under stress.

Did you find out How Stress Kills us?

If you did not fight or fly or run or punch or jump or do an exercise class or lift heavy things, it's not so great. When we get stressed, then cortisol just keeps floating through our body. Our body produces glucose in the bloodstream. The catecholamines get the glucose out of blood, out of the cell, moves it into the bloodstream, so we are ready to run.

Unfortunately, those big glucose molecules of glucose, when they are not stored and used, they bash around in your arteries and veins and cause damage. That is how we get type two diabetes.

Can you Kill Stress rather than being Killed by it?

All of that can be sorted when you produce cortisol, and when you produce catecholamines that takes fat and sugar out of your cells when you go for a run or jump or fight the dragon, punch the bag or do something active.

But here is our challenge. We tend not to do active things. We get stressed. Then we eat more food, or we sit on the couch and watch a scary movie. Then we get more stressed because we are not doing anything. After that, again, we get more stressed when we stand on the scale and check our weight.

We are not the weight that we should be, or we are not the body fat percentage that we should be or our clothes don't fit. So I keep getting stressed, and we become diseased. We are not at ease anymore. We are dis eased. Consequently, we get sick. We get coronary heart disease, type two diabetes; we have a stroke; we feel sick.

Then we go to the doctor, and they give us anti-depressants. They tell us that we are anxious and our body is completely dis-eased because we are not doing the things with our body that it is designed to do. Could it be possible that the human body is meant to move? Isn't it meant to be stressed? Aren't challenges awesome? If you have that headspace, won't that be fantastic! I have got some stress today. I have got a challenge to overcome. I have got my own dragon to kill. I have got this big report to write or this exam to take or this interview to attend.

Instead of being stressed, if we get excited about it, then we produce cortisol, which makes us get ready to fight and flight. And we exercise with passion and excitement rather than I have to burn calories, I have to lose weight, I have to fit into my clothes. I'm sure you have seen people exercising who look absolutely miserable. They're running on the road, or they're working out at the gym.

And you think you've got happy drugs pumping through your brain. Where are they? Is it possible that the stress hormone takes control rather than the happy drugs? Because I'm stressing about my eating the right number of calories, my eating the right percentage of macronutrients, is my body fat percentage the way it should be? Will I weigh the right way? Will I look good on stage in my bikini? Will I look good when I go out on my hot date? My stress is dress now! How will I fit in that dress to look in great shape? We're not even able to produce those happy drugs because we're not focusing on the happiness they can create.

How can you pump in Happy Drugs in your Head and be Excited?

When you exercise with positivity, live your life with positivity; when you dance, sing or learn; when you eat your food with a positive attitude, you will pop happy drugs through your brain.

So when you sit down to eat a fantastic meal of yummy food - rather than thinking about "how many calories, what's the percentage of micronutrients I shouldn't be eating at this time of the day, I haven't left enough time between my last meal because I'm intermittent fasting." What if we enjoy our food? Wow, this is yummy. This is the best chocolate cake I've ever eaten!

Neuroscience scientists understand what happens with the hormones in the brain - the happy drugs and the cortisol. They suggest that you are better off eating more nutritious food and high-calorie food with a positive attitude than you are eating healthy food with a negative attitude. I'm sure you've experienced that there have been healthy people who have a low body fat percentage, high fitness levels, great muscles, and they die early. They die of the stress that I've got to keep this perfect body in perfect shape. They are always diseased and end up being diseased. What if we eat High-Performance nutritious food, and we exercise with a positive attitude?

Do you wonder you could have a life full of Energy and Happiness?

Imagine what our life would be like if you're the person who's jumping out of bed with energy, enthusiasm and excitement because you had a great sleep. You had a stack of energy to make love to your partner the night before or in the morning. You are excited to go to make the career that you love because you're doing what you love. You only put high-performance fuel into your body so you can exercise with energy, enthusiasm and excitement.

When you exercise, you have a focus on I'm loving this, I'm loving my food, I'm loving my exercise, I'm loving that my exercise is going to give me a healthy, fit and strong. It's going to stop me from getting osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, type two diabetes.

I'm not going to be depressed or anxious or feel bad because I'm doing the best things for my body. I have the purpose of my life because I wake up every day doing what I love. I love the people in my life.

The psychologists say that one of the reasons people feel depressed and anxious is that they don't have a purpose. They don't have a reason to get up. What happens then? The downward spiral. If you feel grumpy and tired, you end up eating more. How do you feel when you eat a meal full of high calories, low nutrition, and you don't do anything? Don't you end up feeling worse? You either eat more, or you do less or both and you go into a downward spiral. We don't have to do that.

How you control your Hormones and Lose Weight?

Suppose you exercise and eat food with passion, enthusiasm and excitement. In that case, you control your own hormonal system by pumping happy drugs through your brain, rather than letting that cortisol distribute itself through your body - the stress drug that you're not getting rid of because you're not exercising.

So if you exercise and eat to be healthy, fit and strong, is it possible that the side effect of that will be weight loss? Is it possible that if you eat healthy food and you exercise regularly with a positive attitude, your body will also be in great shape? You won't have squidgy bits or chubby bits. Won't you wake up in the morning feeling enthusiastic and full of energy?

Let's be happy, healthy and strong for a lifetime. Yes.