Do You Think Your Body Is Better At Burning Fat Or Storing Body Fat

Do You Think Your Body Is Better At Burning Fat Or Storing Body Fat

When we become overweight we tend to blame it on our metabolism which is the rate we burn fuel. Our bodies engine so to speak. We all know of people who can eat anything they like and never gain weight and we also hear other people say they only have to look at food and they put on weight.Well, the metabolic pie is divided up with roughly 15-20 percent of people who are blessed with a race horse fast metabolism burning up all the 'food fuel' that they are given and never having to worry about getting fat. We do so envy them.Another 20 odd percent of us have a somewhat slower metabolic energy conversion rate with our bodies running on as little fuel as possible and any extra or unneeded calories getting stored as excess body fat. These people have to eat less and exercise more if they wish to maintain a healthy body weight.The good news is the most of us around 60-70 percent of us are somewhere in the middle. We could say we have neither won, nor lost the genetic metabolic lottery and our bodies are quite efficient at processing the fuel (calories) we give them. We maintain our weight when we eat normal amounts of healthy food and we gain weight when we eat too much.Our 'normal' bodies are quite sensitive to too much processed foods, high sugar, and high fat foods will quickly send us in the overweight category. We can also lose weight when we cut back just a little and start a proper exercise program containing strength training exercise as when we tone up our muscles by working them directly we stimulate our fat burning mechanism - our muscle tissue so we burn more fuel.So for most of us our metabolism is not a given or an unchangeable factor. It is within our power to increase it if losing weight is important to us. Just those two factors - proper exercise and healthy eating is enough to boost our metabolism so we can burn off unwanted body fat and reclaim our slim trim body.The very worst thing you can do to a 'normal' or 'slow' metabolism is to partake in a calorie restricted diet. As little as two days into it the metabolic rate can slow as much as 15 -20 percent and the brakes go on losing body fat. You have in fact, triggered the 'starvation mode' which is a protective mechanism wired into our genetic blueprint to help stop starvation and to conserve energy.The idea is to change our metabolism and boost it with a combination of proper exercise and healthy eating. This will get our body better and more efficient at burning fat rather than storing it. Such a simple solution really, so if you think you have a sluggish metabolic motor give these two strategies a try as one thing is for sure - they work.

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