How to Increase Metabolic Rate with a Hearty Healthy Breakfast
As well as choosing to eat healthy foods, you will find that your eating pattern (the way you eat these foods) has a good deal to do with losing weight and keeping it off.
The secret to losing weight is largely learning how to increase metabolic rate across each day. The answer is largely in the expression ‘Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper’.
Translated, this means eat well at the beginning of the day when your body rapidly converts the food you eat into the energy you will need for the day, during the ‘catabolic phase’ of your body’s metabolic function, then lightly at lunch and dinner when the food you eat is converted to body fat during your body’s ‘anabolic phase’.
Although today’s lifestyle doesn’t match our body’s need for more energy at the start of the day and less as the day wears on and as our food-focused socializing happens, it is important to remember our more evolutionary need for less food across each part of the day.
A good breakfast stimulates your metabolic rate in the morning as your catabolic processes convert food to the energy you need. Going without breakfast diminishes your metabolic rate and the opportunity to lose some fat through this energy using process.
Skipping lunch and waiting for one very large meal at the end of the day is not how to increase metabolic rate and lose weight. Instead of activating your metabolism three times a day and benefiting from this, you stimulate it only once and the time of the day when it is unlikely to operate at a very fast rate and help you lose weight.
How to increase metabolic rate most effectively, often involves eating more often than less often because of the stimulatory effect of healthy eating on the body’s 24 hour metabolic processes. In addition to eating a substantial breakfast you can also eat five smaller meals across each day. Eat for example, breakfast, a morning snack like a piece of fruit, lunch, an afternoon snack like a small carton of yoghurt then dinner.
Whatever eating pattern you use across each day make sure that you understand what impact this has on your metabolic rate and energy output. In addition, be aware of the total amount of food that you consume. Eating more frequently should not mean eating more food. Decide what how much you should eat each day and divide this across the number of meals you have.
