It's Not You - It's Your Brain

Name: It's Not You - It's Your Brain
Uploaded: 2024-12-07T00:07:19+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Jennifer Dent Brown
Description: Stress, boredom, and overwhelm trigger emotional eating because your brain releases cortisol and craves high-energy foods as a survival response. Your…

7 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Stress, boredom, and overwhelm trigger emotional eating because your brain releases cortisol and craves high-energy foods as a survival response. Your eating habits aren't a personal failure, they're how your brain is wired.

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Food is how we reward ourselves or celebrate our wins. So these triggers, these common triggers— stress, feeling boredom, overwhelmed, celebration— they are so common. And you know what that means, y'all? It just means that you're human. It just means that you're deeply human. You're not broken for feeling this way and wanting food because you're feeling this way. Your brain is just doing what it is wired to do. That is it. So this is what's happening in your brain. So for instance, you're feeling Stressed, your body releases cortisol, which amps up your cravings for high-energy foods like sweets and carbs. It's just a survival mechanism which is designed to keep us going during the tough times.