Hello, Everyone!
Today's post is a guest feature from, Theresa Stevens, an art teacher who became an Inspirational Dance Teacher and Founder of Lovelight Samba. She will share how women can lose weight by dancing. As you all know, Spring will be upon us soon enough, and we might as well get ready for it, now, by toning away the excess remnant pounds from the various holiday feasts we enjoyed so much in November, December and New Year's Eve/Day, too. Since we need to get rid of the excess pounds for greater overall body health anyway (the increased blood circulation is great for our hair's health and growth, too), we might as well do it in a way that we really enjoy. Why? Because we are far more likely to make something we really enjoy doing, a regular part of our lives and consequently, reap long-term, lasting, beneficial results. Theresa will share more about how to experience joy while losing those excess pounds, below. Enjoy!
Weight-Loss and Stress–and the power of getting into Pleasure!
by Theresa Stevens
Have you found a correlation in your life between feeling stressed out and gaining weight?
When you’re stressed, your body releases a hormone called cortisol which slows down your metabolism, causing you to gain weight. And when you are stressed, this same hormone triggers you to reach for fattier, saltier and sweeter foods.
Chocolate is comforting in the first few bites, but emotional eating to comfort stress can lead to adding on extra pounds, which is not comforting and only adds to the stress in your life.
What’s a girl to do? There is one sure-fire remedy for stress, and that’s PLEASURE. And by it’s
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When you are in PLEASURE, or what I like to call Body Joy, you release neurotransmitters called endorphins― and your body feels light and beautiful, happy and free, and naturally high! Endorphins are those natural body messengers that make you feel SO GOOD after taking a brisk walk, or dancing in the living room, or running down the beach with a dog or child. Endorphins are your body’s natural reward system for taking the actions that are the most healthy and truly comforting for you.
You have to understand that getting into PLEASURE is essential in your ability to lose weight.
You know, in our cultural learning of the best ways to lose weight–we are usually trained that we need to suffer to do it. Things like working out and dieting are very hard to maintain because of the energy of depriving yourself, of not following your body’s natural design of feeling good to lose weight.
