Overcoming Stress Eating: Tips and Secrets Revealed.

Stress can often lead to emotional eating, whereby we reach for comfort foods. The chemical effects of cortisol make us feel hungry and cause strong desires to eat sugary, fatty foods. To resist the siren song of chocolate when under stress, it's important to keep blood sugar levels stable throughout the day for sustained energy. Eating often and eating a high-fiber carbohydrate with a protein can help fend off mental fatigue and improve the ability to resist an urge for quick carbs under stress. Other strategies include doing a mental shift, having a plan B, and reducing temptation by not keeping trigger foods in abundance at home or office.