Sometimes the fear of not doing something perfectly makes it harder to start at all.
You have something important to do.
You know you need to do it.
You’ve even thought about doing it several times.
And yet…
You haven’t started.
So you tell yourself:
“I’m procrastinating.”
The work you can’t see is often the work that’s hardest to switch off.
You can finish cooking dinner.
You can put the children to bed.
You can clear the kitchen.
You can answer the emails.
And still feel like you haven’t really stopped working.
Because there is another kind of work happening in the background.
The remembering.
The anticipating.
The planning.
The noticing.
The connection between cortisol, chronic stress and abdominal fat is more complicated than “stress makes you gain weight.”
Stress gets blamed for a lot.
Poor sleep? Stress.
Cravings? Stress.
Weight gain? Stress.
And while the relationship isn’t quite as simple as that, there is something fascinating happening inside the body when stress becomes chronic:
Stress can influence not just how much energy we consume and expend, but also how our body handles and distributes that energy.