Why all the talk about metabolism and how a metabolism diet can help you lose weight? In short, because a metabolism diet and program, if you work at it diligently, can help you lose weight naturally and relatively easily.
Increasing your metabolism is a natural way to achieve weight loss – no matter what kind of diet or weight loss program you are on.
Metabolism defined?
It’s creating energy from the food you eat. This is extremely simplistic, but in a nutshell, that is what it is.
So what? What does metabolism have to do with weight loss? Plenty and here’s why.
Simply put – the more energy you use means you burn more food. Increasing your metabolism is increasing energy output which is increasing the amount of calories burned. A calorie is the energy measurement of the food we eat. More calories burned results in weight loss as long as more calories are not taken in.
How to increase your metabolism?
Before explaining how to increase your metabolism, you must firmly establish in your understanding that it’s extremely easy to completely waste all metabolism increasing efforts – and you must avoid this if you wish to lose weight. You waste all metabolic rate increase efforts by eating more calories than you’re burning.
In other words, no matter how big of an increase in your metabolic rate, your calorie consumption must be less than the amount of calories you burn. This is critically important; simple to understand, easy to screw up – after all it’s easy eating junk food and ruining the benefits if an increased metabolism.
There are 4 general ways to increase metabolism:
1. Take in protein at every meal.
2. Do weight lifting exercises. When you weight lift, even with light weights, you build muscle. Don’t worry, just because you weight lift does not mean you pack on massive muscle. Light weight lifting builds lean muscle. Any type of muscle burns more calories. Voila, you’ve increased metabolism.
3. Start doing some aerobic exercise 3 times per week. You don’t need to train for a marathon. Start easy – three 20 minute aerobic sessions per week is a great start.
4. Eat consistently and often. Try to eat at least 3 meals a day. 5 small meals per day is even better.
To learn more about losing weight by increasing your metabolism, check out this metabolism diet review and this metabolism increasing program review.