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Falling Off the Diet Bandwagon? Read This
A New York Times article this week confirmed my worst fears – stress is sending Americans to candy stores in droves.1
While at first glance this little headline, “When Economy Sours, Tootsie Rolls Soothe Souls” seems amusing, from my perspective it unwittingly brings up two important issues in healthcare today:
1. The simplistic assertion that to manage our weight, all we have to do is control calories in and calories out.
There are many factors that influence our ability to lose weight and keep it off, and this headline is an example of an important one – stress. Stress from economic crisis is doing what we see over and over again in patients at LMI — reducing serotonin and inducing carbohydrate cravings.
So what’s the harm in eating a little candy if you’re stressed? Nothing if you can stop at “a little,” but if you make that stop at the candy bowl too much of a habit, you can quickly undo weight loss and start to increase health risks.
Stress management is such an important factor for long term weight control, I have made it one of the key components of my approach to weight loss.
