Two Strategies To Boost Metabolism For Weight Loss

It is easy to blame our metabolism (the body's engine) to explain why one has difficulty

losing weight, but many people may not understand what metabolism is and how it impacts both weight gain and weight loss.

Our metabolism is the rate our body burns fuel (calories) - the food we eat. Obviously, this is of major interest to people who wish to lose weight as the higher the metabolic rate the more calories are burned every single minute of the day and night.

Any change in this number can add up over time and we can become overweight by such tiny degrees that we barely notice it till suddenly we cannot fit a favorite piece of clothing or we notice an increased waistline.

At the very base level of our metabolic engine is the amount of toned muscle tissue we have on our body. This is what drives our metabolism as it is highly active tissue with high energy demands. We think that as we get older our metabolism naturally slows and this is correct but, it is not the number of candles on our birthday cake that causes it, it is the fact that we stop using our muscles as they have been designed to be used.

When they weaken and become flabby they no longer need lots of energy to keep them functioning. This extra energy then gets stored as excess body fat and this is what causes us to gain weight which spoils our appearance and creates dangerous health risks.

So, an understanding of what causes one's metabolic rate to slow is the first step to reversing the situation and losing the weight. Simple really, just rebuild and re-tone lost muscle tissue and there is only one way to do this and that is a proper strength training program that directly works the major muscle groups.

If you added just an extra 5 pounds of muscle tissue and lost 15 pounds of excess body fat (a 10 pound difference) you would not only change your appearance you would feel a million bucks as well. Just that extra 5 pounds of muscle tissue would burn around 50 calories each day for each pound. This totals 250 more calories over the day which is around 10 percent of an average person's daily food intake so it makes a big difference.

This is what will give you fat loss and there is no other way to do it and build your health at the same time. Combine your strength training program with a healthy eating plan and your metabolic transformation will occur much quicker. By ditching the processed foods and replacing them with proper natural whole foods cooked from scratch your body will function better and can be persuaded to give up its fat stores easier.

To lose fat you need to get yourself in great health, not the other way around. The way to speed up your metabolism so your body weight is in the normal range is to use these two strategies - proper muscle building and maintaining exercise and a diet of as many unprocessed foods as possible.

Boosting your metabolism by upwards of 15 percent is what you can achieve just with these two changes to your lifestyle and this is your ticket to a strong, lean, slim, healthy body any of us would be happy to live in.

by: Gen Wright

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