The Weight Loss Motivation Bible : Sustainable Fat Loss Carolyn Hansen The Weight Loss Motivation System | Page 14

You do not indulge in this behavior because you are particularly hungry, but
because you know that by the time you have finished eating the treat, you
are going to be feeling relaxed and content due to the serotonin flowing
again. Well, until the stress of the following day raises your cortisol level and
you turn again to comfort food to take the edge off once again.
Therefore, one of the best things you can do to raise your metabolism is to
manage the stress in your life.
Stress comes in many forms, including
self-imposed damages to the body
due to the consumption of alcohol
and the use of tobacco. Therefore,
living a “cleaner life” can remove
some of the influences that might be
suppressing your metabolism.
If you are wondering why cortisol is released in response to stress and
causes fat accumulation, the likely explanation has its root in our hunter-
gather history as a species. Long before we learned to cultivate grains and
provide food for ourselves all year round, our diets were high in protein
and low in carbohydrates. The reason for this is that we took the bulk of our
nutrition from the flesh of slain animals.
So our diet consisted largely of animal protein and fat, which was plentiful
in the summer and fall but sparse in the winter and spring.
At these times of the year, when starvation-induced stress was high, it
made evolutionary sense to develop the cortisol response to accumulate
fat whenever excess calories became available for storage.
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