Equipped Ministries

Reduce Your Stress and Lose Weight Automatically                 If one of your resolutions this year was to lose weight, you might want to add reducing stress to calorie counting.   Studies are indicating that people who experience significant amounts of stress on a regular basis weigh significantly more than those who combat stress in healthy ways.                 Science has now proven for us that very specific things happen in our brain when we are under stress.   Our “hunger hormones” get out of whack and send crazy signals prompting us to eat more simple sugars and signaling that we are never full.                 To add insult to injury the stress hormone, cortisol is released in massive doses in our body when we are stressed and researchers now think that during this time more fat cells are created.   And more fat cells are created to hold more fat!                The good news is that you don’t need a prescription to block the cortisol or regulate your hormone

                                                                                              O.K., here we go.   Its resolution time again.   That time of year we begin to make those commitments to better our lives, save our money, and lose those extra pounds.   And if you fear yours won’t last you’re not alone.                   Statistics tell us that our will power and determination to keep our resolutions lasts a whopping two weeks!   Can you believe that?   We have less will power now than we did twenty years ago.   Back then, we held our ground until at least mid-February.                 So what has happened?   The obvious, of course; technology, fast fixes and credit cards have left us (and our children) wanting what we want NOW!                 But that’s not our only hang up, especially where behavior changes are concerned.   We have made the mistake of relying on our own willpower, our own motivation and our own determination to keep us going in the midst of