Eat Early!
We have all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In terms of boosting your metabolism, this is certainly true, because again people who do are much less inclined to snack throughout the morning. For instance, if you have a good breakfast of fruit and low-sugar cereal in the morning, the likelihood of you visiting the vending machine at work around 10:30am diminish significantly.
That does not mean you should avoid eating between breakfast and lunchtime of course, but by starting your day in a nutritious way, you will have more control over what you eat throughout the day, and be less inclined to eat anything you can get your hands on.
Another good reason to eat a healthy breakfast is because it directly boosts your metabolism. You see studies have shown that metabolism typically slows during sleep, and does not really get going again until you eat.
Therefore, starting the day with breakfast is like kick-starting your metabolism. You will actually burn more calories throughout the day, simply by eating breakfast.
When you prepare your breakfast, control both the portion size, and beware of high-fat content. High-fat breakfasts, like those including bacon and sausage deliver lots of calories (9 calories for every gram of fat, as compared to 4 for every gram of carbohydrate and protein). Worse still, if you eat such a breakfast, you will not only have ingested a lot of fat (and hence a lot of calories), but you may also still find yourself hungry again in a few hours.
This explains why many people who eat a high fat content breakfast find themselves painfully hungry by lunchtime - it is not their “overactive metabolism” at work, it is simply because the high fat content has been swiftly digested. Conversely, breakfasts that are high in fibre take much longer to digest, which will not only ensure your body is not hungry again for a while, but also help to boost your metabolism because your body is working longer to digest it.
So, eating more (in a controlled way) and eating early, can help you boost your metabolism and slash those pounds – it is one of the most incredibly easy ways to lose weight there is!
See you next time, when we’ll take a look at the 3 food groups that are good for speeding up your metabolism.
Sandra
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Sunday, 3 October 2010
Sunday, 4 July 2010
Boosting Your Metabolism - Part 3 - Anabolism and Catabolism
The first function is creating tissue and cells. Each moment, our bodies are creating more cells to replace dead or dysfunctional cells.
For example, if you cut your finger, your body (if it’s functioning properly) will begin – without even wasting a moment or asking your permission –the process of creating skin cells to clot the blood and start the healing process. This creation process is a metabolic response, and is called anabolism.
On the other hand, there is the exact opposite activity taking place in other parts of the body. Instead of building cells and tissue through metabolism, the body is breaking down energy so that the body can do what it’s supposed to do.
For example, as you aerobically exercise, your body temperature rises as your heart beat increases and remains with a certain range.
As this happens, your body requires more oxygen; and as such, your breathing increases as you take in more. All of this, as you can imagine, requires additional energy.
After all, if your body couldn’t adjust to this enhanced requirement for oxygen (both taking it in and getting rid of it in the form of carbon dioxide), you would collapse!
Presuming, of course, that you aren’t overdoing it, your body will instead begin converting food (e.g. calories) into energy. And this process, as you know, is a metabolic process, and is called catabolism.
So, the metabolism is a constant process that takes care of two seemingly opposite functions: anabolism that uses energy to create cells, and catabolism that breaks down cells to create energy.
It is in this way that the metabolism earns its reputation as a harmonizer. It brings together these apparently conflicting functions, and does so in an optimal way that enables the body to both create cells as needed, and break them down, again as needed.
Metabolism and Weight Loss
By now, you already have a sense of how metabolism relates to weight loss (catabolic metabolism, or breaking cells down and transforming them into energy).
To understand this process even more clearly, in Boosting Your Metabolism – Part 4, we can introduce a very important player in the weight loss game: the calorie.
Click here and check out this Hot Site for more on how you can boost your metabolism effortlessly
See you again soon
Best Wishes
Sandra
For example, if you cut your finger, your body (if it’s functioning properly) will begin – without even wasting a moment or asking your permission –the process of creating skin cells to clot the blood and start the healing process. This creation process is a metabolic response, and is called anabolism.
On the other hand, there is the exact opposite activity taking place in other parts of the body. Instead of building cells and tissue through metabolism, the body is breaking down energy so that the body can do what it’s supposed to do.
For example, as you aerobically exercise, your body temperature rises as your heart beat increases and remains with a certain range.
As this happens, your body requires more oxygen; and as such, your breathing increases as you take in more. All of this, as you can imagine, requires additional energy.
After all, if your body couldn’t adjust to this enhanced requirement for oxygen (both taking it in and getting rid of it in the form of carbon dioxide), you would collapse!
Presuming, of course, that you aren’t overdoing it, your body will instead begin converting food (e.g. calories) into energy. And this process, as you know, is a metabolic process, and is called catabolism.
So, the metabolism is a constant process that takes care of two seemingly opposite functions: anabolism that uses energy to create cells, and catabolism that breaks down cells to create energy.
It is in this way that the metabolism earns its reputation as a harmonizer. It brings together these apparently conflicting functions, and does so in an optimal way that enables the body to both create cells as needed, and break them down, again as needed.
Metabolism and Weight Loss
By now, you already have a sense of how metabolism relates to weight loss (catabolic metabolism, or breaking cells down and transforming them into energy).
To understand this process even more clearly, in Boosting Your Metabolism – Part 4, we can introduce a very important player in the weight loss game: the calorie.
Click here and check out this Hot Site for more on how you can boost your metabolism effortlessly
See you again soon
Best Wishes
Sandra
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Permanent Weight Loss - Healthy Ways to Succeed
There are many diets that may help you to lose weight but as soon as they are finished, the pounds start to creep back on, and then within a few months you are back where you started, probably feeling very de-motivated and frustrated. Most diets are focused on short term goals and do not educate us on long term changes that can easily be made to our diet and lifestyle to ensure we lose weight healthily and permanently.
Well the secret is to lose weight slowly and gradually, which is healthier for you, as the body does not like any sudden changes, so aiming for losing a couple of pounds each week is ideal.
1. One of the most important things is to increase the amount of physical activity you do on a regular basis, which will help to burn calories, and tone and strengthen the body. This doesn’t have to mean using expensive weight loss plans, diet aids or spending hours in the gym, just simply walking for 20 minutes 3 times each week or joining a dance class will help you to get fitter and slimmer. If you have friends that like cycling, swimming or even yoga, why not join their group? Whichever type of exercise you choose, it will help to burn fat fast.
Exercise is a metabolism booster, and your metabolism determines the rate at which your body burns calories - the higher it is, the more successful you will be in achieving permanent weight loss. Exercise helps to build muscle tissue in the body which in turn burns calories at a rate that is ten times higher than that of fat tissue.
2. Cut back on the amount of carbohydrates in your diet and reduce your intake of unhealthy fats. Increase the amount of foods in your diet that are high in fibre and low in fat, such as brown bread, pasta, rice and also fruit and vegetables, which will fill you up fast and are healthier for you.
To make the body use up its stores of fat, reduce your calorie intake …. which doesn’t mean living on a diet of lettuce for months on end! Switch to skimmed milk instead of whole fat milk and if you must, use a sweetener instead of sugar in your tea or coffee. Fizzy drinks can be replaced with water or fruit juices and cutting down on alcohol as much as possible will help you to reduce calories, as will eating slightly smaller portions.
Remember it is important to introduce changes gradually, and also to have realistic expectations. Making a number of small changes to your diet and lifestyle is the easiest way to shed unwanted pounds permanently. Eating one extra biscuit a day can lead to a 5 pound weight gain over the course of a year, so if you eat 1 biscuit less a day, you should lose 5 pounds!
So by reducing your calorie intake together with an increase in your physical activity, you can lose weight both healthily and permanently
Losing weight can improve your health, increase energy levels, reduce stress and is useful in preventing and reversing disease.
For more great diet advice and how you can maximise your metabolism click here now.
Sandra
Well the secret is to lose weight slowly and gradually, which is healthier for you, as the body does not like any sudden changes, so aiming for losing a couple of pounds each week is ideal.
1. One of the most important things is to increase the amount of physical activity you do on a regular basis, which will help to burn calories, and tone and strengthen the body. This doesn’t have to mean using expensive weight loss plans, diet aids or spending hours in the gym, just simply walking for 20 minutes 3 times each week or joining a dance class will help you to get fitter and slimmer. If you have friends that like cycling, swimming or even yoga, why not join their group? Whichever type of exercise you choose, it will help to burn fat fast.
Exercise is a metabolism booster, and your metabolism determines the rate at which your body burns calories - the higher it is, the more successful you will be in achieving permanent weight loss. Exercise helps to build muscle tissue in the body which in turn burns calories at a rate that is ten times higher than that of fat tissue.
2. Cut back on the amount of carbohydrates in your diet and reduce your intake of unhealthy fats. Increase the amount of foods in your diet that are high in fibre and low in fat, such as brown bread, pasta, rice and also fruit and vegetables, which will fill you up fast and are healthier for you.
To make the body use up its stores of fat, reduce your calorie intake …. which doesn’t mean living on a diet of lettuce for months on end! Switch to skimmed milk instead of whole fat milk and if you must, use a sweetener instead of sugar in your tea or coffee. Fizzy drinks can be replaced with water or fruit juices and cutting down on alcohol as much as possible will help you to reduce calories, as will eating slightly smaller portions.
Remember it is important to introduce changes gradually, and also to have realistic expectations. Making a number of small changes to your diet and lifestyle is the easiest way to shed unwanted pounds permanently. Eating one extra biscuit a day can lead to a 5 pound weight gain over the course of a year, so if you eat 1 biscuit less a day, you should lose 5 pounds!
So by reducing your calorie intake together with an increase in your physical activity, you can lose weight both healthily and permanently
Losing weight can improve your health, increase energy levels, reduce stress and is useful in preventing and reversing disease.
For more great diet advice and how you can maximise your metabolism click here now.
Sandra
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