About Exercise: My Stress Ate My Workouts!

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Exercise Exercise Lose Weight With Exercise Workouts Exercises By Muscle Group From Paige Waehner, your Guide to Exercise Of all the excuses I've heard for skipping workouts ('It's raining and I don't want to get wet walking to my car,' 'My gardener showed up a half-hour early...I don't want to just leave him alone in the flower beds!' or, one of my personal favorites, 'I've figured out that I really hate exercise!') , this one is the best:  "My stress ate my workouts!" I didn't realize stress could do that until this client pointed it out.  She said that she was working out just fine until her job got really crazy and her parents got sick and her husband started traveling more and she realized that her stress was so all-encompassing, that it was eating her workouts.  And worse?  It was depositing those extra fat calories all over her body. There is a way to kill stress and not even go to jail for it.  And, no, it's not tequila. But tequila can help.  I'm not going to lie. I'm Too Stressed to Exercise! Have you ever gotten so stressed out that your only goal is to get through the day without a) Killing someone, b) Stabbing yourself in the eye with a rusty fork and/or c) Crawling under the bed to the comforting softness of the dustballs that have been collecting there since the 80s? Search Related Topics:  exercise and stress relief  stress  stress management Workouts for Stress Relief Exercise is a necessity if you want to reduce stress...and you really do want to reduce stress because it does terrible things to you like keep you from sleeping and making you crave Doritoes and ice Dairy Queen Blizzards and it makes you gain weight.  But you can kill your stress with exercise and no one will convict you for it! Search Related Topics:  stress relief  exercise basics  healthy exercise Are You an Exercise Perfectionist? Perfectionism can also cause stress, mostly because it is impossible to be perfect.  Believe me, I know this because I've tried over and over and over.  Please, learn from my mistakes and give yourself a break. Search Related Topics:  how to set goals  dealing with failure  exercise attitude Top Health Benefits of Exercise Exercise not only reduces stress, it makes your whole body happy, even if your mind is a mess of worry and confusion and unfocused anger.  At least your body can be on the right track, right? Search Related Topics:  health benefits of exercise  getting healthy  healthy lifestyle Related Searches Workout Exercises Exercise for ABS Arm Exercise Weight Loss Exercise Home Fitness Workout Featured Articles Tequila Stress - It's Nothing to Mess With Choosing and Using Resistance Bands Why Aren't You Motivated to Exercise? Portion Size Mistakes That Are Easy to Avoid Why Sugar Isn't Poison What NOT To Wear When You're Walking   More from About.com Sign-up for Shareables! An every-morning rundown of the day in history, headlines and trends produced by your pals at About.com. Please sign up it's free (of course), we think you will like it! Want More From About.com Check out our social page tailored to your interest! This newsletter is written by: Paige Waehner Exercise Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Exercise newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com   Must Reads How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off Exercise for Beginners Getting Flat Abs Dumb Things We Do When Trying to Lose Weight Why Aren't You Motivated to Exercise?   Follow me on: Advertisement