Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Boosting Your Body’s Engine For Fat Loss

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Everyone wants to know about how to boost their metabolism so they can enjoy the benefits of this magic bullet for body fat loss. But just what is this mysterious thing called ‘metabolism’? And how can we control it and manipulate it to help us burn more body fat? Well, the word metabolism refers to how much fuel (calories) you burn each day. You could think of it as your fat burning machinery or your metabolic motor.

It is controlled by many factors, including your age, your hormone levels, your muscle/fat ratio, your activity levels, the food you eat, your stress levels, and your genetics. You can temporarily increase your metabolism with the right type of exercise and you can increase your metabolism long-tem by adding muscle tissue, losing body fat, and eating whole, natural foods.

But if a large number of the metabolic control factors are not right, then your metabolism can slow down. This is what leads to weight gain and this is reflected by the fact that overweight and obesity is at epidemic proportions around the world. Living a Westernized lifestyle is a recipe for a slow metabolism as it includes many poor lifestyle choices such as:

Eating too many highly processed and refined foods

Not eating enough protein, eating too many carbohydrates and too much fat

Eating only 1-2 large meals per day

Not including strength training exercise to build and maintain muscle tissue

Choosing to perform only long duration, steady-state exercise (like walking, cycling etc)

Not getting enough quality sleep

No coping strategies to deal with high levels of stress and busyness

Skipping meals thinking that will help with weight loss

Consuming too much alcohol

Being overweight on its own does not necessarily mean that you had a slow metabolism. But if you become overweight this can lead to an even slower metabolic rate. And that can create an ongoing cycle of more weight gain leading to an even slower metabolism.

Then what generally happens when people start to think they may have a slowing metabolism is they start to miss meals and start to eat less. And the cycle continues that can lead to much frustration along with an increasing waistline.

To turn this around you need to do two main things. Start an immediate strength training program to rebuild lost muscle tissue and get your motor running hot again. Add a couple of interval training sessions each week to further boost your engine.

Start eating 5-7 small meals that each contains at least 20 grams of protein with lots of raw and cooked vegetables. Start eating within an hour of waking then every 2-3 hours throughout the day. Prepare your meals the night before and take them with you wherever you go so you cannot eat the wrong things.

This simple concept of your strength training program combined with interval training, small meals and eating breakfast will give you the very best weight loss plan on the planet. You will burn up body fat in the faster manner thanks to your increased metabolism.

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