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Boosting your metabolism is a great way to start losing weight and you can do it rapidly if you follow some or all of the tips below.
What is metabolism?
Metabolism is the rate at which your body converts the food you eat into energy and burns it off as calories. The quicker you burn calories the quicker you will lose weight and lose the fat that you are concerned about.
Men’s metabolism is different from women’s and therefore the rate at which they lose fat is different. Men’s stomach’s are the last place to lose the fat so an all round fat loss plan is needed. Women lose fat on their belly’s quicker than men so women can expect to lose their belly fat quicker than men.
For all of us, we use up this kind of energy (calories) in 3 ways:
- 60-70% to power our body for all its daily functions, to keep us going. This is otherwise known as basal or resting metabolic rate
- About 30% in exercise and other physical activities
- The remaining 10% in eating food since the processing and digesting that's involved requires energy. This is also known as the thermic effect of food
1. Exercise
By far the quickest way to boost your metabolic rate. The food you eat will be burned quicker when you exercise.
The top ten exercises are: Walking, running, hill climbing, cycling, step aerobics, swimming, squash, rowing, cross country skiing.
Doing exercise for 30 – 40 minutes per day can keep your metabolism working for several hours. A morning workout and evening workout would be ideal for burning the most fat and calories.
2. Weight training
You can incorporate weight training into your daily gym routine. Building up all your muscle groups will do wonders for your metabolism.
Very few people know that the more muscle you have the quicker your metabolism is going to work even in it’s resting state. This is due to the amount of energy needed to feed all your muscles.
3. Always eat your breakfast.
Always start your day with a good breakfast. It kick starts your metabolism into working and will keep it going for a few hours before your next meal. If you miss breakfast your metabolism will not start working until your next meal, which means it could be 12 -16 hours
4. Eat more often and less
It has been shown that the more times you eat, properly, throughout the day the more fat and calories will be burned. This is due to the fact that after every meal your metabolism starts working and slows down after an hour of eating. If you fire your metabolism up often you will burn off more calories and fat. So instead of having 3 big meals per day have 6-8 smaller meals throughout the day. This might sound strange but if you think about you will eating less but more and so you will not feel the need to snack on junk throughout the day.
Eat your biggest meals before 6pm and make your dinner your smallest meal of the day. After 6-8pm your body is starting to slow down as you are starting to rest more after work.
5. Eat more calories
Don’t skimp on the calories, the less calories you eat the less your metabolism will work. It needs fuel to keep it going and to power your body. There is a myth that the less calories you eat the more weight you will lose, this is true to an extent however this is only true for people who consume much much more than their calorie intake should be. For example people who are obese sometimes eat more than 4 times their recommended daily calorie intake, so of course if they cut down and are eating less calories their weight will go down. However for the average person they need to stick to eating, at least, their recommended daily calorie intake; 1900 for women and 2500 for men.
6. Eat more protein
Eat more foods like chicken or fish as your body uses more energy to digest foods like these than carbohydrates or fat.
7. Drink plenty of water
The process of burning fat and calories needs water to work effectively so the more water you drink the easier it will be that your metabolism will work to its optimum state.
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