Do you want to reduce weight, reduce your stress !!!
Overweight and emotional eating
It is a myth that overweight of people suffering from uncontrolled stress is only a result of lack of willpower to control their habitual or emotional eating.
The problem is not lack of will power. We should feel taste, enjoyment and feeling of satisfaction in our brain to stop eating. But when one is stressed, her/his feedback mechanism is not working. And when they actually eat more they are not getting a feeling of eating enough. Or simply we are not fully present to the food and aware of its taste. Brain likely thinks it didn't eat or eat enough. It asks for more and we give in.
Mood and food
Our brain is always on. It takes care of every function in our body. It works hard 24/7, even while we sleep. So brain requires constant supply of premium fuel. But that fuel comes from what we eat. So what we eat affects our brain function, our thoughts and ultimately our mood. 
Eating high quality foods that contain lot of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress. But if we ingest more junk food and refined or processed foods, it badly affects the brain and other organ system.
So please note, modern science too says that there are many consequences and correlations between what we eat, how we feel and how we ultimately behave.
Foods we eat make us feel good
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, which is feel good hormone in our body. It regulate sleep, appetite, mood and inhibits pain. But 95% of this hormone is produced not in the brain but in out gastrointestinal tract! The functions of neurons producing this hormones in the gut is influenced by billions of good bacteria in the intestinal microbiome. So a clean diet is very essential for the growth of these good bacteria and normal functioning of our body. If we follow unhealthy food and food habits that de-promote the growth of these good bacteria and will lead to the growth of bad bacteria and industrial dysbiosis. It leads to less production of serotonin, more inflammation, less absorption of nutrients and altered industrial wall permeability and absorption of toxins produced by bad bacteria. This ultimately can affect our liver leading to multiple problems.
Here the solution is an optimum nutrition and "satwik" food
If we can "go clean" following a balanced plant diet, we will not believe how much better we can feel both physically and emotionally
Our most important digestive enzyme - "happiness"
Classic fight or flight response is the only thing you can expect when you experience stress. That's why people report heartburn, gas and digestive upset when they are struck. Digestion is the last thing our body will attend to when our engines are in fight or flight mode. That's the way our body's safety systems have evolved over millions of years.
Our digestive system shuts down when stress response system is activated. All our body's energy is focused onto survival from the threat.
So if we don't eat happily and in a relaxed mood our digestion and assimilation will not happen properly. Ultimately it will result in overeating, symptoms of in digestion, malnutrition and ill health. Happy mindful food habits can convert illness to Wellness.
Reduce weight, reduce your stress
Stress can make us put on weight. If stress can do that then relaxation should take it off too, right? Yes, this is how it will...
Common reasons of psychological stress responses are fear, anxiety, anger, judgement, negative attitude and negative self talk. When we are stressed we produce more cortisol and insulin which induce the weight storage mechanism of the body by storage of carbohydrates and fats in cells instead of providing energy and building muscles. This also will reduce our calorie burning capacity. No matter how much best weight loss diet in the world we follow, we will get the opposite result. Smile, breath more deeply, we enter the relaxation zone boosting our calorie burning mechanism and reduce our weight.
If we adopt stressful weight loss strategies- impossible to follow diet plan, overly intensive exercise, tasteless food an extremely low calorie meal plan, all of these can create stress chemistry that ensures the weight to stay put.
Clean diet alone will not help us. If we can practice mindful eating being present to the food, enjoying its taste and the nourishment our body is getting, we will stop overeating and our weight will come down.
