Top Tips for Speeding up Metabolism and Losing Weight Healthily
If you’re overweight it’s important for you to learn the secrets to speeding up metabolism. Increasing your metabolic rate is essential for a healthy weight loss but how to do this? The answer is simple. Build up your lean body mass (your muscle tissue) by eating a healthy diet and by exercising regularly.
The more muscles you develop, the higher your metabolic rate and the more your body will need energy. The more you build up your muscle tissue the more food you can eat and enjoy. It’s a win/win situation all round.
As we age our muscle mass diminishes so we need to make extra effort to build and feed our muscles by eating the right kind of fuel. If we combine a metabolically healthy diet with the right kind and amount of exercise we can build our muscle mass and raise our metabolic rate immediately as a result.
The added benefit of muscle building for women is that even with extensive exercise their muscles will only get denser not larger. The result is a smaller firmer body not one belonging to a female body builder on steroids!
The diet you chose when speeding up metabolism should not include a very low calorie intake each day. Never eat less than 1200 calories as a minimum to avoid your metabolic rate slowing down and resorting to ‘survival mode’. Instead reduce your caloric intake gradually so that you don’t lose the muscle that you need to burn fat.
As you eat healthily, gradually introduce regular aerobic exercise like walking, running or swimming and some anaerobic exercise like weights.
Low-intensity exercise like walking often uses up more stored fats than a high intensity exercise will. It’s often best to exercise less intensively for longer periods of time. Brisk walking (at least 30 minutes daily) is believed by many experts to be the best exercise option for speeding up metabolism.
Lifting weights for five to ten minutes daily is an excellent way to develop your muscle mass and bone density. It helps reduce the storage of fat by producing a growth hormone that stimulates muscle development, the growth and repair of tissues and mobilizes the metabolism process through using fat as a fuel source.
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