Jim Katsoulis explains how chronic stress keeps your nervous system in fight-or-flight mode, diverting blood from your brain and making you more impulsive about food. Activating your rest-and-digest system through deliberate relaxation restores clarity and makes it easier to stick to health goals.
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Is your nervous system making you overweight? If you're stressed, tense, or anxious a lot of the time, it's a lot harder to lose weight because you have an overactivated sympathetic nervous system. That's your fight, flight, or freeze response. And when your fight, flight, or freeze response is activated, the blood goes from your brain down to your body so your muscles can fight, flight, or freeze. And what happens is you're much more impulsive and reactionary, and you have less awareness of what your goals are. So it's way harder to choose the right foods that move you towards the body that you wanna be in. So the best way that you can start to really lose weight for good is to start relaxing. Relaxing. And so not only will you lose weight and be healthier, but it's gonna feel a lot nicer. You wanna activate your parasympathetic nervous system. This is your rest and digest system, your pause and plan system, so that when you're more calm and relaxed, the blood flows back up to your brain so you can think more clearly. And now when you're around foods that are tempting, it's much easier to feel a sense of disconnection from it and control because you're more relaxed, calm, seeing it for what it is, and you're more aware of the goal that you wanna achieve, which is to live at your goal weight with the best level of health and the best version of you. Yeah.
