You begin to raise your metabolism through exercise, which increases your proportion of muscle to fat, through regular aerobic exercise and a consistent diet. It works like this.



The greater your proportion or percent of muscle to fat, the higher your metabolism will be. Your weight tells you nothing about your body composition. Rather like the difference between a pound of butter and a pound of feathers, you can weigh one hundred pounds of flabby, fatty flesh or one hundred pounds of well-toned muscle. The less fat you have, the more you can eat to stay the same weight because muscle is ‘living’. Muscles do a job. Muscles have a blood supply and have to move your bones. They get hot and can stretch and contract. Every movement you make requires muscles, and servicing your muscles requires a high metabolism. If you increase your muscle content, you will be able to eat more food while still staying the same weight.
Fat does nothing at all. It sits there as your emergency food supply. The body lets us put on fat to enable us to stay alive if we are in danger of starvation. In fact, your body wants you to stay alive until the last possible moment, so it has this wonderful way of helping you to store fat, and when you starve yourself it will not only saves fat, but will consume your muscles and any other stores it can get hold of, such as calcium from your bones. If you diet too stringently, you will not be aware of what your body is doing to you, the only warning signs being tiredness. You will be feeling euphoric because you are thin, but your body is struggling. Your metabolic rate will be falling as your body sets into panic mode. Eventually, you either decide to eat again, or you give in to hunger and binge. Whichever way, you will gain weight very quickly.



NOTE: Keep your metabolic rate high by eating regularly, eating carbohydrate, and exercising every day.



The key is keeping and sticking to a regular diet. The only way to raise your metabolic rate and keep it high, so that you can eat more some days and less on others and not affect your weight is to keep a consistent workout and meal schedule.



Avoid going to the gym when you have had a heavy weekend binging. You won’t work it off like that. Get into regular habits which suit your lifestyle, such as three sessions a week of aerobic exercise, a morning walk on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and some toning exercises for your muscles which are done a couple of times a day. Three five-minute stomach exercise sessions a day, are better than one manic workout, and you’re less likely to get bored or injured.



It’s the same with food, by eating smaller meals several times a day you are curbing your body’s natural signaling of hunger, and overindulging. You are also training your body to eat smaller portions, and still have a feeling of being full. Your body will trust you and not store food as fat the moment you eat, you won’t get hungry, so the temptation to binge will vanish, and the weight will start to go.



It’s not enough just to eat smaller meal’s you also must watch what you are putting into your body. If you have a weight problem you’ll have been eating too much for your body’s requirements at some stage, so eating smaller amounts is vital. Cutting out alcohol also helps, as we get a lot of useless calories from it. If you find that hard, you must try. Alcohol does you no good whatever, so until you have your weight under control, give it up or cut down.



If you’ve been eating a lot of junk food, you’re eating habits will have to be altered drastically if you’re going to lose weight. But you can still have a regular meal and not have to eat bland food. Again, the principles are smaller portions, more frequently, and the only banned foods are those which ruin your looks or health, such as sweets, coffee, alcohol and chocolate.




About the Author:




Written by, Barbara Johnson. If you enjoyed this topic you may want to consider a career in healthcare as a nurse, for more information you can visit my website which covers CNA Training and passing your CNA certification nursing exam.



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