Hello and welcome back to the Consistency Project podcast. My name is Patrick Cummings. I'm every week

here on the show, EC, and I aim to simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and

fitness. We thank you for tuning in this week, every week while I'm at it. This week I'm here with

just a quick introduction because what we've got for you

this time around is a conversation that EC had a little while back on another podcast. It's called

The Nourishing You Podcast, which is presented by the National Association of Nutrition Professionals

or N-A-N-P. The hosts are Kristen Burkett and Diana Wall. And together, the three of them talk about stress,

what it actually is, how it shapes our eating habits, and of course, what we can do about it.

So without any further ado, let us get into this conversation. Enjoy.

Well, so today, we're going to tackle a topic that affects almost everyone, and that's stress.

We all know stress can impact how we feel.

And while it may not be causative on its own, it can also play a role in weight gain, challenges with weight loss, maybe how successful we are in reaching our body composition goals.

So maybe to start unpacking this, can you

break down for us what stress is and how our body might react to stress? Yeah, I mean, I think

stress is always interpreted in the negative. It's, you know, I'm stressed out and therefore,

you know, it's affecting my weight and body composition, as you mentioned.

But stress is just really a stimulus that causes an adaptation. And sometimes that can be quite

favorable. I'm sure some of us can all remember some sort of time at work when maybe we were

really stressed, but we also got a big project done. Or even stress from exercise causes a lot of

favorable adaptations.

So you really want to think about it as an external stimuli that's driving an adaptation,

and that can be both favorable and it can also be not favorable.

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