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Is Depression Linked to Our Weight?

Friends, perhaps you may be aware of the long speculated connection between one's weight and depression, or state of mind.

Not surprisingly, new studies are showing that overweight people are significantly more depressed.

This may be because they emotionally beat themselves up because they view themselves as "fat", which has a direct impact on their every day interactions with people, their self esteem, and therefore leads to depression and feelings of sadness, lethargy and hopelessness.

When we're thinner,(and hopefully when things are going on fine in our lives) we tend to feel better about ourselves, which produces more endorphins and feelings of happiness.

When we feel down or depressed, we may tend to overeat or binge on comfort foods as a temporary means of feeling good again, which in turn makes our weight balloon, which in turn makes us feel bad about our body image.... and so on and so forth.
(hence, the suggestion to fast or miss few meals when one is depressed!)

So to sum it up, if you are or know someone who is depressed and at the same time overweight, chances are the first step to alleviating the symptoms of the depression may be to work on weight loss.

At this point I'll suggest Yoga (its poses AND its diet)

More on that in due course.

Here's to happiness.

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posted by Foras Aje @ 10:20 PM