Read one of the books mentioned in this episode, or write your current story and then write a “new story” with a positive perspective. I’ll give one personal anecdote but I’ll give a less personal anecdote as well. I’m going to lower my stress.”  Now it’s like, “I’m going to embrace this stress and I’m going to use it to my advantage.”, 13:55 – 14:06, “What I have right now, how can I use that or leverage that to either strengthen myself, strengthen the world, or make the world a better place and give some meaning and purpose?”, 14:41 – 14:51, “That’s the last thing we can control — our perception and our attitude and our meaning. Can these things reduce your stress? Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. High cortisol levels, in combination with high insulin levels, may be responsible.”. We want to grow and continue and develop and learn. The good news is that it's not all that difficult. It’s the opposite of rose-colored glasses. April: Hello, it’s April Perry and Jonathan Bailor back with another episode of the SANE Show. A Harvard study found that men who did 20 minutes of daily weight training had less age-related abdominal fat than men who clocked the same amount of time doing cardio. Herewith, an expert-backed regimen to tighten up. I won’t read the whole thing here because it’s pretty personal but the way it starts is, “Every day, I have the privilege of waking up to live a beautiful story.”  And then I went on and explained everything reversed — the blessings I have, these opportunities that I have to help other people, how even when I’m not enough, it’s okay because there’s power coming from heaven and here on Earth to help me make it happen. Belly fat is more of a concern than fat on other parts of your body because it causes problems with your organs. Alia made this for me. April: Did you see my butterfly hanging here in the office? April: Do you want to hear my success story in this area? Consider including fermented foods in your diet, or taking a probiotic supplement to keep your gut microbiome healthy. And at time when we're worried about so much, feeling bad about yourself because your pants aren't fitting like they used to just adds an unnecessary burden. You learn not to run into a wall anymore and you’re actually stronger and better because of it. I interviewed her a long time ago. We don’t want to be the same as we were when we were toddlers; when we were in high school. Tell them why I’m stressed. You don’t get stressed about stuff that’s irrelevant and meaningless. How are you, Jonathan? According to research published in Advances in Nutrition, protein has a “greater satiating effect” than other foods. No, just kidding. As I was feeling stressed out one morning, I actually went and I opened up my planner and I wrote down the story I was telling myself, which consisted of something like, “I’m tired and overwhelmed. Yup — stress belly. Watching that show was worse for my stress level than not watching the show. It also affects the whole body function.”, This article was originally published on www.womenshealthsa.co.za. I think when you can look at nature, look at the science of why your body is giving you this stress and anxiety, seeing it as fuel, seeing it as a reason to continue to grow and do better and work your purpose, I feel like that’s just helped me so much and not ever even having to think “I need to reduce my stress” anymore. Jonathan: There are elements of truth and elements of horrible falsehoods in it. It’s helped me be more patient with my kids. Then there are things like meditation, things like exercise, things like deep loving relationships — these things will objectively — just like we talk about eating vegetables will lower your weight set point; meditation will lower your stress set point. So let’s say, somebody’s been going SANE for a while. All of us want to grow and develop. I’m going to lower my stress.” Now it’s like, “I’m going to embrace this stress and I’m going to use it to my advantage.”, Jonathan: If you think about what you just said, April, it’s very true because, like, what is a stress-free existence? If you can perceive butterflies as like, “Oh my gosh, I have butterflies. But any nutritionalist will offer this up immediately because giving up on alcohol—even just for one month—has been linked to significant and immediate improvements in your health. I think that should be our next action — to figure out what it takes to lower your stress set point. April: You’re so stressed because we’re talking about stress today. I love what you just said. In the process, the effects of the parasympathetic system (in charge of functions like digestion), are dampened. This has been something that I struggled with my whole life but now I feel like I’m finally getting there to the point I can lower my stress set point. Eat regular meals to avoid blood glucose dips, which helps to keep hunger and hormones such as insulin in check. Well, that’s not good. That’s the one that is correlated with health problems and so on and so forth versus, for example, if you just had fat on your hips or buttocks. It’s as scientific and real as it gets. Jonathan: For example, you can de-stress right now by taking all forms of illegal drugs. It’s the opposite of rose-colored glasses. I actually read it to Eric the other day. If you have too little of any one, that’s bad. Be careful of regularly eating treat foods, like chocolate, in order to make you ‘feel better’. What do you need to do — whether it’s reading one of the books we recommended here in the podcast or whether it’s writing down your current story and then rewriting it/making a new story? Then you see people, like some Buddhist monk — this is a crazy example — but there are Tibetan monks that can set themselves on fire — which is a pretty big stressor — and not be stressed about it. I think that as I think back to my life and even just thinking back to a couple of years ago, I had a huge stress in my life in that I was tired of counting calories; I was tired of feeling guilty if I couldn’t exercise and break a sweat every day; if I couldn’t run four to six miles a day; I was tired of going to bed hungry or eating to fill myself and then despising myself because I thought I was weak. But if you run into a wall, you know what happens? Meditation doesn’t necessarily mean, “Om, om, om.”  Walking in forests can be a meditative activity but things along those lines, I think, are great to explore.”. Like, you win the Super Bowl and then you’re stressed about, “Now I have to win the second Super Bowl.” It’s never enough. Have a wonderful day and remember to stay SANE. I’ve used that term my whole life. I’m watching them and I’m cheering for them, like, “C’mon, little caterpillars, you can do this.” I don’t probably think so elementary but it’s been just a really neat thing for us, for my life, for my business, to think all of us want a transformation. Results may vary between different members of the program due to differences in individual exercise history, genetics, age, sex, personal motivation and other factors. —NEXT ACTION— A much more benign — not nearly as compelling — example for me personally, there is a great book called ‘Overachievement’. The book actually explains how what’s happening physiologically is, your body’s releasing the hormone adrenaline into your body and your blood is being used differently and it makes your belly feel different. I didn’t even know what was going on in her head that because of my stress and because I found the way out of it, I was now able to help my daughter to completely revolutionize her life. Tell them about the SANE show so that we can all enjoy a life healthy and in wellness the rest of our lives. And what April talked about here is the same kind of thing, like, “Why are you doing this?” What Viktor Frankl found is that the thing that got him through the concentration camps was that he saw it as that, “I need to get through this so that I can tell this story to the world and then I can help prevent this from ever happening again.” So he attached a different meaning to that than potentially other people were. 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Now while our bodies are well equipped to deal with this daily onslaught, stress is a strain – especially sustained stress, which takes a serious toll on our bodies. That’s the problem with statins. Unfortunately, prolonged stress can keep our stress hormones levels elevated, along with blood pressure and blood sugars. Jonathan: I am super excited about this show because stress is very real and it does have a huge amount to do with weight loss and it also has this fun dynamic where it’s like, “Wait, stress causes me to gain weight? “Plus a stress-cortisol craving is almost always for high-sugar, high-fat junk food.” In order to fight it, you've got to put a plan in place. Jonathan: April, I am so stressed out for today’s show. What’s so neat is, because I found you, I didn’t even know that my then thirteen/fourteen-year-old daughter was experiencing way more stress than I was because she was twenty-five pounds overweight and she didn’t ever want to look in the mirror and she didn’t want to be around her friends at the mall. We’re talking about getting good at stress and how that can help us to be more SANE. Here’s how to reverse the weight you’ve recently put on, We are all dealing with an unprecedented amount of stress lately, between a global pandemic, record unemployment and social unrest bubbling throughout our cities. This can lead to a breakdown of the immune system and a reduction in muscle and skin tissues, he says. The reason your body is doing these things is to optimize performance.

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