Stress, Cortisol & Fat Gain

[superscrawn]

liltyson

Yeah it definitely sounds like you need to kick that punk out. No one ever needs that kind of crap and especially not when you are stressed about something else and need to concentrate on your show. No more crying, OK? Do what you gotta' do to take care of you.

Veggie
My mom read that story about cortisol and fat storage areas.
She is convinced the lower abdomen thing happens to her too when she is really wound up tight. Sounds like maybe its true.

 

[liltyson19]

yeah I hear ya superscrawn...yesterday was my birthday and he kept me up until 4am crying...mind you I had been crying since about 2pm off and on b/c he was being an ass on my birthday...truly a punk and not worth sacrificing my happiness for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MS]

"So would it be impossible to prepare for a show when you are completly stressed out????" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Have you ever known someone who wasn't totally stressed while preparing for a show????

Cortisol is just another one of those hormones that is neither good nor evil. The trick is to avoid chronic elevation. I can assure you that ANY hormone that remains elevated long term is gonna damage your health, but they are all essential for optimal health in the right dose and at the right time.

Never forget the triad for optimal bodybuilding is training, nutrition and REST. If you short change yourself on any of these you will get less than optimal results whether gaining mass or dieting for a show.

 

[evilqueen]

Read Fight Fat After 40....

...by Pamela Peeke, MD. she's one of the first researchers to study the so-called "stress-fat connection." I am now working with her on her second book. She's a brilliant woman, and her premise is interesting and no BS--although pop-tarts and pizza certainly do play a role in gaining weight, stressed or no.

 

[VeggieLifterChick]

bump

 

[fawnmarie]

I've been reading a great book about nutrition called "Natural Hormonal Enhancement" by Rob Faigin and he goes into stress and cortisol quite a bit. High and constant levels of cortisol eat away at the muscles, which are what use and burn fat.


Here's a sort of MOR article about it:

http://webmd.lycos.com/content/article/1676.51897

Fawn

 

[takniteasy]

Good book. I have it and have used most of the principles in it. I loan it out all the time and right now I am waiting for it to come back to me