Your metabolism is a combination of biological and chemical processes that your body uses to break down nutrition in food and draw it into your blood.
By speeding up your metabolism, you can burn more fat quicker, even when you're not actively doing anything.
Read on to learn how you can increase your metabolism through both exercise and diet.
The most important thing to speeding up your metabolism is through exercise.
Exercising has a two-fold effect on increasing metabolism: It heightens your metabolism in the moment, and also improves your lean-muscle mass to fat ratio, which has an effect of raising your base metabolic rate.
In other words, you lose fat now, and over time lose more fat, even when you're not doing anything.
The second component to increasing your metabolism is a proper diet.
Instead of eating three large meals, with your metabolism slowing down in between meals, consider eating six small to medium sized meals throughout the day.
If you're a person who tends to overeat, pay special attention to the amount you're eating each meal.
Cut back on high-fat foods, and instead opt for lean meats and fruits/vegetables.
Avoid junk foods such as cookies, chips, and fast food.
Make sure you get a good breakfast - Your body's metabolism slows to a crawl at night, and by eating breakfast you immediately let your body know that it's time to wake up.
Avoid improper food combining.
Starch is digested in a base environment in your stomach, and meats are digested by hydrochloric acid.
Base and acids combined together produce water.
In other words, avoid combining foods that digest in different environments.
Meats and starches shouldn't be eaten together (no tuna sandwiches or spaghetti with meatballs,) and fruits should be eating separately from any cooked foods.
Veggies can and should be combined with almost anything.
Avoid drinking water after a meal - Water doesn't help "wash food down," it dilutes stomach acids and impedes digestion.
By following these few guidelines for two to six weeks, you'll train your body to increase its metabolism and naturally lose weight.
By speeding up your metabolism, you can burn more fat quicker, even when you're not actively doing anything.
Read on to learn how you can increase your metabolism through both exercise and diet.
The most important thing to speeding up your metabolism is through exercise.
Exercising has a two-fold effect on increasing metabolism: It heightens your metabolism in the moment, and also improves your lean-muscle mass to fat ratio, which has an effect of raising your base metabolic rate.
In other words, you lose fat now, and over time lose more fat, even when you're not doing anything.
The second component to increasing your metabolism is a proper diet.
Instead of eating three large meals, with your metabolism slowing down in between meals, consider eating six small to medium sized meals throughout the day.
If you're a person who tends to overeat, pay special attention to the amount you're eating each meal.
Cut back on high-fat foods, and instead opt for lean meats and fruits/vegetables.
Avoid junk foods such as cookies, chips, and fast food.
Make sure you get a good breakfast - Your body's metabolism slows to a crawl at night, and by eating breakfast you immediately let your body know that it's time to wake up.
Avoid improper food combining.
Starch is digested in a base environment in your stomach, and meats are digested by hydrochloric acid.
Base and acids combined together produce water.
In other words, avoid combining foods that digest in different environments.
Meats and starches shouldn't be eaten together (no tuna sandwiches or spaghetti with meatballs,) and fruits should be eating separately from any cooked foods.
Veggies can and should be combined with almost anything.
Avoid drinking water after a meal - Water doesn't help "wash food down," it dilutes stomach acids and impedes digestion.
By following these few guidelines for two to six weeks, you'll train your body to increase its metabolism and naturally lose weight.