The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life

By Brendan Brazier

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The Toll of Stress

Initially manifesting as fatigue and weight gain, stress, if untreated, can lead to much more serious conditions. Now accepted as one of the leading causes of illness, stress has been shown to precipitate many diseases, as it lowers the immune system.

The body can tolerate only a certain amount of stress; there is a finite amount it can cope with. Strain beyond that point manifests itself in various ways.

• The first indications that the body is stressed beyond its ability to cope are relatively mild: fatigue, sleep disturbances, and mental fog.
• If stress overload is more severe, significant weight gain, intense food cravings, and depression become the telltale signs that stress has overwhelmed the system.
• If these symptoms are not dealt with, if they are allowed to become chronic, the chances of developing a disease such as type II diabetes, fibromyalgia, or even cancer greatly increase.

Those who eat according to the Thrive Diet will have a greater ability to think clearly after consuming a meal.

Cravings

Too much stress can result in depressed, low moods. In response, the ever resourceful brain attempts to self-medicate. Cravings are the first sign of this.

Stress Causes Food Cravings, and in turn decrease the brain's ability to perform to its full potential.

Types of Stress

1. Uncomplementary stress is anxiety that produces no benefit. This type of stress should be eliminated. Uncomplementary stress depletes motivation, making even small challenges seem daunting.
2. Complementary stress is the right amount of stress to stimulate renewal and instigate growth within the body. Exercise is a form of complementary stress. Essentially nothing more than breaking down muscle tissue, exercise is the best way to stimulate regeneration of the cells.
3. Production stress is the stress created when you strive to achieve a goal. Ranging from physically demanding training sessions for an athletic competition or working overtime on an important project to sorting out family problems or taking a calculated risk, production stress is not something to shy away from.
4. Stimulation can be categorized either as production or uncomplementary stress, depending on how it is used. 

• When the adrenal glands are stimulated in order to achieve something that could not be done, or done as well, without this stimulation, the stress that results can be classified as production stress.
• However, if this borrowing strategy is used too often, it will lose its effectiveness and simply become another form of uncomplementary stress.

 

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