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This constant battle of giving in can surely lead to weight gain around the belly, let alone trimming
lower belly fat.
Your Action plan: The first strategy to fight the battle of stress eating is to stay clear. keeping
sugary snacks and fatty foods handy just makes the matter worse.
Instead, stock your fridge with "healthy snacks" such as Greek Yogurt, apple, hummus, cottage
cheese— belly fat friendly foods.
And throw away anything you know you shouldn't be eating or snacking on constantly.
Because with "chronic stress", the chances are, you will be snacking them much more frequently
than you should.
The folks at Harvard health also recommend these lower intensity exercises to reduce high cortisol
levels.
Meditation // Taking a few minutes daily to meditate can reduce stress. Meditation may also benefit
people in making more mindful food choices.
Exercise // High-intensity activities increase cortisol levels temporarily, but low-intensity exercise
seems to reduces them according to researchers at the University of California.
Low-intensity exercises include yoga and tai chi.
2. Reduce Your Sugar Intake
Your body can only handle so much sugar, one to two teaspoons at a time max. Anything more than
that has the potential to be converted into body fat.
Whether naturally occurred or added, sugars are carbs and listed under total carbohydrates on
nutritional labels. Usually, one figure sums the total sugar content, but naturally occurring sugars
and added sugars are different in nature.
Naturally occurring sugars which include fructose can be found in fruits, other plant-foods, and
lactose (milk).
Added sugars include white sugar, brown sugar, honey, corn syrup, fruit nectars, fructose, and
dextrose.
It's a type of sugar that gets added to a food or beverage during their preparation and processing,
hence the name. It's not naturally occurred as the first type of sugar.
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