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October 22, 2026

【It’s Not Weak Willpower】Why Stress Makes You Overeat, How Cortisol Drives It, and How to Stop Starting Today

Why does chronic stress lead to overeating? This article explains how the stress hormone cortisol disrupts your appetite, why burnout breaks down your eating habits, and the signs to check whether you've fallen into this pattern. Written by an author with two years of fasting experience, it shows how to break the vicious cycle of stress eating through fasting and a better diet.

October 24, 2026

【For Those in Treatment】Why Antidepressants May Not Work, 5 Ways Eating Habits Disrupt Brain Chemistry, and the Diet and Fasting That Can Help Restore Balance

When antidepressants don't seem to work, eating habits may be hiding behind it, alongside factors like the dose, the length of treatment, and the diagnosis. This article explains 5 ways all-day grazing disrupts the brain's neurotransmitters, findings from nutritional psychiatry such as the SMILES trial, and how to balance your brain chemistry with diet and fasting while continuing treatment, along with precautions.

Overcome stress eating and emotional eating with fasting

October 27, 2026

【For Those Who Eat Out of Loneliness】Why Lonely Eating Happens and How to Stop, How It Differs from Stress Eating, and How Fasting Can Help Fill the Emptiness

Lonely eating, where you eat whenever you're alone, isn't a sign of weak willpower; it's your mind's way of trying to fill stress or loneliness with food. We explain in plain terms how lonely eating works in the brain, how to tell it apart from real hunger, 3 steps to break the vicious cycle with fasting, and habits that fill your heart with things other than food.

October 24, 2026

【It’s Not About Willpower】The Psychology of Stress Eating and Fasting Techniques to Overcome It, Plus How to Tell It Apart from Real Hunger

If you can't stop stress eating, it's not because your willpower is weak; it's because of your brain's reward circuit and the way your mind works. This article explains in plain terms how to tell emotional hunger from physical hunger, the broccoli test, why 16-hour fasting reduces stress eating, and psychological techniques to overcome it, such as mindful eating and keeping an emotion journal.