Fri, Oct-29-21, 12:44
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,469
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Plan: Banting
Stats: 302/187/187
BF:
Progress: 100%
Location: New Zealand
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I've learned a lot about stress over the years, from the general struggles of having grown up fat and having lived that way for 30 years, to particular issues like the Christchurch earthquakes of a decade or so ago and more recently, Covid and its flow-on effects.
In the first two examples, I know I felt so much better once I'd removed myself from the fatness and the earthquake area, respectively. Covid is less easy to escape of course, but as of late I've been learning to watch the news less and less, which has helped to an extent.
Ultimately though, the moral of my story is that I'm a believer in solving a problem first and foremost by identifying and then directly addressing its cause. If eating a certain way is stressing you out, then by all means change it up. But if your diet is not the root cause of your stress, then changing it anyway is just an attempt to address the symptom. Just like me turning off the news. Not to say that it wouldn't make a difference anyway, but in my experience, addressing the root cause, where possible, is so much more effective.
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