What Affects Belly Fat Besides the Type of Exercise You Do?

Starch + Sugar + Lack of Sleep + Stress (Cortisol)

You feel like you exercise, you keep your calories in check, you are even making your green smoothies but nothing is changing in the mid-section. Maybe you have to chill out.

What you can control for yourself is your stress level; you may not be able to eliminate the stress but you can control how you process it and react to it.

When you have stress, your body releases certain “fight-or-flight” stress hormones that are produced in the adrenal glands: cortisol, norepinephrine and epinephrine. When you first get stressed, these hormones kick in. …read more