Metabolism Facts Every Dieter Should Know
January 25th, 2010 | Published in Women's Health
Your metabolism which is in effect your body’s engine and powerhouse is continuously turning our food into energy that our body can use to allow us to live. A healthy metabolism is measured by how fast and efficiently your body burns (fuel) the calories you eat every day. If you have become overweight it may mean that your metabolic ‘fitness’ is not in as good working order as it should be.
If you want to take off – and keep off – unwanted pounds of body fat, a healthy metabolism is your best fat-burning friend. Unless you are one of those rare lucky people blessed by the fast-metabolism gods, you would probably like to burn a few more calories than you do – both while at work and at rest. Your body weight will influence the health of your metabolism. If you are already overweight you may need to boost your metabolism to lose that excess weight. You may have become that way because you are doing things that will cause your metabolism to slow down. Here are two things that will speed it up and could be all you need to lose weight and keep it off long term. 1) A proper exercise program is the only sure fire way to boost your fat burning machinery. Strength training exercise must be done to increase the amount of toned muscle tissue on your body. No other type of activity can do this so forget long slow low intensity activity like walking, jogging or cycling. Keep those things for after you have done your proper muscle building and maintaining exercise. To get rid of excess weight that is both long term and sustainable you have to be concerned with what happens after the exercise session is over rather than what happens during it. This is what we have being doing for the last thirty years which is a very old fashioned method that we now know does not work to boost the metabolism long term.. We have now found better ways to do this through scientific research. Muscle tissue is where fat is burned so increasing this will give greater fat burning both day and night. 2) Too much sugar and fat intake will affect your metabolism. Refined foods high in fats and sugar is a clear way to gain excess weight. Reduce greatly or even better get rid of the sugar, flour and refined stuff and try and eat whole, natural foods cooked from scratch. Try and eat small meals every 2-3 hours that contain at least 20 grams of protein. If you can implement just these two things you will find that you weight will slowly come down over a period of time. This is the only way to achieve this as there is no short term solution for long term weight control. When you have mastered these two things you will not have to worry about being overweight any longer – it will be long gone.
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