How to Prevent Stress When Moderate Weight Loss

Very high stress often makes people eat is not controlled in an effort to meet the emotional needs. It is sometimes referred to as stress eating or emotional eating. If the stress comes and wants a big meal arise while you're on a diet, do this.

Stress people tend to eat high-calorie foods during the feeling of stress. It may even still be performed even when not hungry at all. To prevent weight gain during the stress and reduce the risk of obesity, then it must be able to control the stress being experienced.

When someone is feeling less stressed and more able to take control of life, then it may be easier to maintain healthy eating habits and regular exercise.

As quoted from Mayolinic, Monday (12/11/2011), stress management techniques to cope with the stress that causes weight gain, among others:

1. Recognize the signs of stress
The signs of stress can be such as anxiety, irritability, and muscle tension.

2. Before eating, ask yourself why you eat
The question is useful to know whether really feel hungry or because they feel stressed or anxious.

3. If tempted to eat when not hungry
So try to find the disturbance and set it aside, by avoiding these foods when not on a feeding schedule of hours.

4. Do not skip meals
Do not skip meals, especially breakfast, because it would make a person can not control your food portions at lunch or dinner.

5. Getting rid of foods that can interfere with efforts to control eating
Identify and then get rid of foods that are often tempting for the meal, from home or office.

6. Keep a record of behavior and eating habits
This is done in order to find patterns and relationships and then find ways to overcome them.

7. Learn problem solving skills
This is done in order to anticipate the challenges and overcome the worsening of the problem at hand.

8. Practicing relaxation skills
It can make a person more relaxed and can think more clearly. Relaxation can be done with yoga, massage, or meditation.

9. Physical exercise or regular exercise
Physical exercise or regular exercise can make a person more able to relax and be entertained.

10. Get enough sleep
Sleeping with sufficient quality and quantity can have a variety of benefits, including providing a clear mind is useful when someone is solving problems.

11. Get support from friends and family
Support from friends and family can certainly strengthen a person who is facing a serious enough problem, so it can reduce the stress of the problem.

Stress is successfully managed well, will certainly not contribute to weight gain because it can not control a healthy diet. If you have tried these stress management techniques, but it seems does not help, consider seeking professional help through psychotherapy or counselee

8 Ways Thinking Stress Triggering Vulnerable

In everyday environments, stressors from the outside is very easy to find such a traffic jam and meet with colleagues who sucks. But sometimes stress triggers can also come from a variety of unhealthy ways of thinking, 8 of which are as follows.

"Thoughts are recorded in the prefrontal cortex, the part that was instrumental in determining the choice. If the piles will cause people to be unhappy," said Dr. Taufiq Pasiak, Kes, MPd, Secretary General of Indonesia in the seminar Neuroscience Society for Neuroscience Role in Developing Generation Character in the Young Nation Menara Peninsula, Monday (24/10/2011).

Eight ways of thinking is unhealthy and potentially stressful as it is referred to Dr. Taufiq is as follows.

1. Should / Must Thingking
That way of thinking that tends to be rigid, and this should be so. As a result, when something goes wrong as it should, his mind will begin frantic last stress and unhappiness.

2. Overgeneralization
For people who use overgeneralisasi way of thinking, one-time mistakes will make it become discouraged and feel as if not useless. For example, "I always mean well, but always be wrong".

3. Magnification / minimation
Whenever anything goes wrong, the error is always blamed on himself. The characteristics of people with this way of thinking is often said, "This damage must be because I am".

4. Personalization
Personal hatred on someone is often carried away-take, especially for people who always associate anything with personal relationships with others. Either do it or not, people with this mindset would say, "He's responsible for my misfortune."

5. Mind Reading
A person with poor communication skills tend to prefer second-guessing other people's thoughts and unfortunately sometimes are caught are negative thoughts. For example, "He ignored me. Surely he does not like it at me".

6. Fortune Telling
People with this way of thinking has always been overshadowed by his own mind. Everything associated with mutual prejudices, for example, "I do not fit with this job. Here is the proof".

7. Authotative Source
People who do not have a stance likely to have a way of thinking Authotative Source. Everything is always assumed to be true compared to the opinions of others, for example, "This can not be wrong because it was delivered minister / kiai".

8. Emotional Reasoning
People with this way of thinking has always tried to see relationships between things logically, but its implementation is dominated by emotional factors that are not always logical.