Hi, everyone. I’d really like to post today because I’ve finally had some clarity as to why I’ve struggled with my weight my entire life.
I get anxious about things all the time. Things I have to get done, things that might happen, things that have already happened; you name it, I’ve gotten anxious over it before. As my anxieties developed as I got older, my way of coping with said stress was avoidance. Of course, putting things aside only makes the buildup of anxiety worse—but it was always easier to just think of something else. For the majority of the time, this something else for me became food. Food became an easy comfort, something familiar that I could never possibly stress over. Oh, how I was wrong. My stress constantly building up and my ever-increasing need to hide these stressors behind food lead to the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life.
Weight has something I’ve always struggled with, and I would approach my “weight loss” with the basics: calorie counting, intermittent fasting, fad diets. What I failed to realize was my main source of weight gain never left my sight and with my constant stress, my weight wouldn’t be going anywhere. When you’re stressed, your body produces more cortisol as a survival response, and cortisol makes it easier to store fat.
Today, I begin my TRUE WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY with a clear plan: I have to conquer my coping mechanisms for stress. With stress minimized in my life, this will make it easier to control my eating habits, leading to a happier and healthier me. I hope to return one day as a success story, and I hope this is relatable for someone that needed to hear this. We got this!
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