De-Stress and your weight loss diet will work

Feelings of stress influence the body as well as the mind. The body cannot adapt to a stressful lifestyle and responds by holding on to foods as a reaction to the fear and stress that is experienced. We all experience stress at some point in our lives and the fact that we all often set ourselves goals that are simply too high or expect too much of ourselves and the people around us makes us feel like we're not in control.

As a result you may experience sleeplessness, illness due to a weakened immune system, feeling agitated, increase or a decrease of appetite, tiredness and many more symptoms. You need to work on reducing stress if you want to successfully lose some weight. To be able to succeed with a new diet you need to feel at ease and stress can make you crave foods and sugars. This could jeopardize your diet attempts.

Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz's latest book, You, On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management is a new diet book that has been much hailed by celebrities such as Oprah. Based on the thought that the more different flavors of food you eat, the more weight your body holds on to and the more your brain is programmed to think about food, this diet changes our eating habits. If we eat more different things our body will ask for more food to satisfy the taste buds. If you simply eat one meal with one flavor or one type of flavor, the body will feel satisfied quicker.

The brain is re-programmed by taking one or two meals in the day and keeping them the same for a longer period of time. Eating the same meal or meals for lunch, dinner or breakfast will stop the brain from thinking about food. Your food habits will change because of this and your (over) interest in food diminishes. Time will tell if this new approach actually works or that this book is just one publication in a long line of diet books.

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