All Blog Posts Tagged 'stress' (29)

4 Steps to Decrease Stress Related Weight Gain

Here are four additional tips to decrease the impact of stress and elevated cortisol levels on your weight. 1. Don’t fight the cravings. If you need something sweet it’s okay to satisfy your sweet tooth – in moderation. It’ll cut off your cortisol response before things get out of control. 2. Limit caffeine. The combination of caffeine and stress raises cortisol levels. 3. As always, don’t skip breakfast! Being deficient in certain vitamins, such as B vitamins, vitamin… Continue

Added by Lisa Nelson on May 14, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Weight Loss - Prevent Stress Related Weight Gain

Stress is linked to weight gain in that it stimulates the release of cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone that breaks down muscle to provide the body with needed glucose for energy needs. Cortisol also relocates fat cell deposits into the visceral cavities of the abdomen. Increased abdominal fat increases your heart disease risk. Here are three tips to decrease stress related weight gain. 1. Push-ups Effective, instant stress reliever that tricks the body into thinking your escaping stress.… Continue

Added by Lisa Nelson on May 12, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

How to Win Control Over the Stress in Your Life

In the middle of the 20th century physiologist Hans Selye labeled our reaction to life's challenges with a simple word: stress. Now, 50 years later, there's a conversation you hear so often, it's almost a chorus: You ask a friend, "How are you?" and she replies, "I'm OK, but I'm feeling a little stressed." In the 21st century, stress has become synonymous with life. Stress is associated with almost every aspect of our lives, personal and professional alike. Stress does however become a danger w… Continue

Added by Inese on May 3, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

The Value of Time Off

"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." -- Samuel Butler "Sometimes, on a summer morning, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumacs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. "I grew in… Continue

Added by Sheryl Karas on April 4, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

How to Stop Worrying

In my last blog post about the effect of worrying and what to do about it I forgot humor! Paul wrote the following article when I was stuck in a cycle of worry and fear that the "normal" stress relief methods could do nothing about. How to Stop Worrying. by Paul Hood Dale Carnegie had some good ideas, but the story isn’t over yet. It’s not as if there aren’t thousands, maybe millions of positive examples out there. So many mentors, so many shining examples of how to live life more joyo… Continue

Added by Sheryl Karas on March 31, 2009 at 6:50pm — No Comments

The Effect of Worrying and What to do About It

by Sheryl Karas An excerpt from my book, The Spiritual Journey of Family Caregiving -- but it's applicable to all kinds of situations, especially the economic concerns we're all going through right now: When it comes to stress we usually like to think that something outside of ourselves has made us be stressed out, and often there IS an outside event that sets the process in motion. However, our reacti… Continue

Added by Sheryl Karas on March 31, 2009 at 6:42pm — No Comments

Qigong - Powerful Stress Relief

Qigong (chee-gung), an ancient Chinese system of slow-motion exercise that concentrates on flowing movements and breathes meditation is widely used as an effective stress management technique. Qi means " life, force, energy", and gong means "work, a skill of practice". Qigong releases the flow of Qi energy throughout the body. When this energy becomes blocked you become ill, our state of inner homeostasis and balance is destroyed. According to traditional Chinese medicine, qigong wards… Continue

Added by Inese on March 28, 2009 at 3:30am — 1 Comment

Stress Relief Toys Helps To Deal With Work Stress

When you are dealing with the work stress and you are feeling overwhelmed you can't allow yourself to "lose it". Solutions? Give yourself a break from the work stress with stress relief toys. In fact stress relief toys and games can give you the break you need to just get t… Continue

Added by Inese on March 23, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

Three Great Reasons To Drink Plenty Of WATER

While it is good to be aware of the bad effects of not drinking enough water , most people are more motivated to change their behavior for positive reasons. So here are some excellent reasons to increase your intake of good, clean water. Lose Weight, Feel Great: Many people struggle with trying to lose weight. What they don’t know is that dehydration causes your body to secrete aldosterone, a hormon… Continue

Added by Inese on February 11, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Could playing more help you eat and stress less?

Emotional eating is a signal that life is out of balance. Emotional eating and overeating happen when we use food to try to help us manage our feelings. The triggers for emotional eating vary–we might eat to cope with loneliness, unhappiness, stress or boredom. Sometimes we eat for comfort or in an attempt to create a pleasant experience, when food really isn't what we crave. Finding other avenues to meet our emotional needs and other ways to shift our moods is one of the most powerful things w… Continue

Added by Melissa on January 26, 2009 at 8:52am — 1 Comment

How Do You Honor Your Priorities?

I have noticed that especially during these challenging times there is one thing we often believe that we should ignore - work/life balance. In fact, quite the contrary. During difficult times work/life balance becomes even more critical. When times get tough we want to dedicate more time to what we consider important. We have to find the optimum balance in order to do so. We need to find our natural rhythm like calm breathing in and out, flow is required. What this requires? Us… Continue

Added by Inese on January 19, 2009 at 4:00am — 1 Comment

Tips for Successful Midlife Management

I am almost 47 and I start experience changes as many of us women who move from their mid 40s into their 50s and onward. Sometimes change isn’t necessarily welcome, nor is it always easy to cope with. There are ways to help ease the transition: Seek the support you need It is not uncommon for women in midlife to have the responsibility of caring for elders, as well as their own children. This can many times become overwhelming. It is therefore essential to receive the help you need whe… Continue

Added by Inese on January 18, 2009 at 3:30am — 4 Comments

Personality Types and Stress

Our personality has an important influence on the way we respond to particular situations and events in our life and how we cope and manage stress. Personality can be defined as, “The totality of emotional and behavioral traits that characterize the person in day-to-day living; it is relatively stable and predictable.” No body has a “perfect” personality (and who knows what perfect is?) we all have personality traits that create stress to some degree in our lives. Although there are many basic… Continue

Added by Inese on January 16, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Vitamin C: Stress Buster

Vitamin C is already everybody's favorite nutritional supplement, linked, however mostly, to preventing the common cold and fighting cancer. But recent studies demonstrate that vitamin C reduce both the physical and psychological effects of stress on people. People who have high levels of vitamin C do not show the expected mental and physical signs of stress when subjected to acute psychological cha… Continue

Added by Inese on January 13, 2009 at 4:30am — 2 Comments

6 Easy Stress Relievers

There are many ways to reduce stress, tension and relax. I would like to give you the stress relievers I believe are not only most effective but are also easy to learn and practice (remember practice=action is the Master :). 1. Breathing Exercises Deep breathing is an easy stress reliever that has numerous benefits for the body, including oxygenating the blood, which ‘wakes up’ the brain… Continue

Added by Inese on January 8, 2009 at 3:00am — 2 Comments

Invest in Your Social Circle

We are, by nature, social creatures, and the company we keep can have a huge impact on quality of life. Good friends and close family can celebrate with us during our best times and support us through our worst. A social network of healthy relationships can be a buffer against stress and provide many other benefits. When under stress it is very natural to withdraw from the world and concentrate exclusively on solving that problem that causes the stress. Sometimes this is appropriate and… Continue

Added by Inese on January 2, 2009 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Give yourself the gift of you this Holiday Season

Too often, during the holiday season, we are so busy shopping, cooking, visiting family members, house cleaning, our children, and a myriad of other activities--we forget to do take the time to relax and do something, anything, for our

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Added by Lisa Newton on December 12, 2008 at 6:15am — 2 Comments

Three steps you can take to avoid stress eating

Do you turn to food when you feel stressed or overwhelmed? Does a bad day at work send you off track with your eating or exercise plan? Does an out-of-control to-do list leave you craving chocolate? There are ways to avoid the stress eating/emotional eating trap. Here are three straightforward strategies you can try. 1. Know that you ARE a stress eater This one sounds like a no-brainer, but it’s an important tip. If you are someone who turns to stress in response to food, it’s an important fa… Continue

Added by Melissa on December 10, 2008 at 9:01am — No Comments

Emotional Eating Tip of the Week: VOTE!

There is something I say so often that my coaching clients can probably quote it in their sleep. “When things feel out of control, focus on taking care of what you CAN control.” This is a much more effective strategy than our tendency to try to avoid or muffle what’s going on by overeating and creating an ice cream-induced coma. There are so many things around us today that may feel out of our control and that are contributing to the stress and worry that we carry. Here (again) is my advice: “W… Continue

Added by Melissa on October 31, 2008 at 8:51am — No Comments

New holiday program for getting and staying on track with emotional eating and overeating

How would it feel to wake up on January 1, 2009 proud that you maintained your priorities without being sucked into holiday overeating, emotional eating, overwhelm, and overload? That's the goal of my brand new program Your Holiday Health Clu… Continue

Added by Melissa on October 24, 2008 at 6:31am — No Comments

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