Stress Less

Stress can make your weight loss efforts counterproductive. Research has shown that it can lure you into engaging in lousy diet behaviors when you get under the influence of stress. For instance, you could engage in passive eating.

That way, it becomes difficult to monitor your food intake. Hence, you could munch on too many added sugar foods and other terrible food choices.

But, of course, stress is almost inevitable. Since you can’t avoid getting stressed, the way out is to devise the best coping mechanism for you. Some good stress coping mechanisms include exercising, meditation, etc.