Why Does Stress Cause Some People to Gain Weight and Others to Lose Weight?

TL;DR: Any doctors in chat who are familiar with the effects of stress on weight gain/loss and what causes one to happen over the other, I would greatly appreciate hearing the science behind it and if there's anything I can do to "switch modes" (or if there's a better subreddit for my question please lmk) I'm already getting people telling me about how stress casues some people to eat more and others to eat less av I'm fully aware of that, that is besides the point of what I'm asking. I'm asking how someone like me who has been on an appetite suppressant for a couple years now and has been consistently stressed since 2019 can still gain weight and if there's any way for me to switch my body's response to stress (and I mean my biology NOT my appetite)

Why Does Stress Cause Some People to Gain Weight and Others to Lose Weight and is there a way to trick your body into having the opposite response to stress?

I have insulin resistant PCOS that is triggered by stress. I'm not looking for any tips on how to reduce stress and if you're a working class citizen then I'm sure you understand why. I know it's possible for me to be at my target weight but that has only happened once in my life and that was right after graduating highschool which was the time in my life where I felt most free, that is, until I started having to pay for shit. I'm very very slowly going down but there no is way for me to ensure my mental health won't take another dive so I'm wondering if I can switch my body's stress response from weight gain to be more like my mom and have weight loss.

I want to make this very clear though, I'm not anorexic, I am 4'10" and weigh ~150lbs right now (I don't have a scale so that might be a bit over what I am now, that's just what the scale said last time I had the chance to weigh myself) and I don't plan on being any lighter than ~120lbs but that last time I was that weight I didn't have curves yet, so I might even be comfortable at 130lbs, who knows.

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