Things to do, if your anxiety have killed your appetite too !

Although generally stress increases hunger and calorie intake in people. But some of the people also have opposite reaction too. People who are stressed anxious and preoccupied with some hectic works, do not feel hunger. Most of the time they just swallow the food and it makes them nauseous.

In scientific words, it is called Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD). It is basically faced by that small group of people who lose their appetite during moments of high anxiety. Although the number of these people are quite less. But the number of people is significant, who lose their appetite when they are anxious.

Let’s just deep dwell into this fact and know what causes it and it’s cure.

• Physical stress sensations may suppress appetite.

Most of the people during anxiety or stress force them to nibble here and there and have no desire to eat. This significantly drops the amount of weight. Most of the time, stress manifests itself through physical conditions on or inside body. These physical conditions may include nausea, tensed muscles, cramps, stomach pain and knots.

Hunger and fullness cannot tune themselves with these sensations and it becomes difficult for body to maintain weight. If it’s stress causes a feeling of intense nauseous, it will become challenging to accurately read body experiencing hunger.

Most of the times people also lose their appetite cause of increase in stress hormone, cortisol. It mainly releases during time of anxiety. During immediate stress, cortisol levels increase in human body. Thus, resulting in increase of acid production in the stomach.

• Know the cure !

1. Just identify these stress cause.

It is quite important to figure out stressors that are causing intense stress and lose of your appetite. This only will help to get you to the root of the problem.

It is a scientifically proven fact that focusing on stress management will surely help you to lead in decrease of physical symptoms. Health experts and scientists recommend that being aware of physical sensations can accompany stress.

2. Just have sound sleep.

Making sure that one is getting enough amount of sound sleep is very crucial for healthy lifestyle. Health experts with scientifically proven evidence, claim that getting sufficient restful sleep is crucial for combating lack of appetite due to stress.

3. Focus on scheduled meals.

Health experts say that persons hunger and fullness cues only regulate when someone is eating constantly. One who is eating less as a response to decrease in appetite, may need to eat mechanically. If he or she wants hunger cues to return.

This clearly point towards the fact that setting a timer for meal and snack time is quite crucial.

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