In today’s world stress is almost absolute. Rush hour, conflicts at work and home, struggling with personal relationships. It is almost impossible to not be stressed in a big city life. When you are stressed, a hormone named cortisol is released. That hormone is released when you are being stressed out. And according to recent researches high levels of cortisol is related to weight gain, (or) fat gain to be precise. Losing weight can be stressful and increased the level of cortisol in your body, witch make you gain weight.

Women who yo-yo diets trough there life eventually starts looking like apples. It has also showed that high levels of cortisol makes your bones in your body to be less hard, it can almost be compared with low calcium intake.

Stress puts us on the edge, and so be released from stress we can do a lot of things, if you are on a diet and you are under a lot of stress, you might just skip it and go back to old habits. Cause that is what stress do to you. If on a diet, try to avoid everything that you know will make you feel stressed.

If you are feeling stressed out when coming back from work or what ever, it is important that you take your own time, time to relax, to just be and nothing else. Take a hit bubble bath, read a nice book, or watch a comedy. Anything that makes you feel more comfortable, but you can not eat anything unhealthy, taking a snack like apples or other fruits is okay.