Increase Your Metabolism

If you know how to increase your metabolism, you will be able to burn calories faster, replace fat with muscle, and give you more energy, well the main point is LOSE WEIGHT. If you want to increase your metabolism, you need to know what the metabolism exactly.

According to Wikipedia – Metabolism:
Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that occur in living organisms to maintain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments.

You can see that metabolism respond to your environments. For the example when you start to skip your meals (starving), your metabolism will respond it with active your survival instinct. Because your metabolism think that you can’t get any foods to eat, it will start to burn fewer calories and you will not able to lose any pounds. Yes, you can’t control your metabolism, because it responds by itself.

But the good news is you can also make the respond to help you in burn more calories. And the best way to is exercise. Exercise will increase lean muscle mass. By increasing lean muscle mass, your metabolism will respond it will increase it work, because muscle tissue uses more calories. You can try walking, swimming or biking. It will help you to increase your metabolism for 4 to 8 hours after you stop exercising. Additional calories will be burned off long after you stop exercising.

It’s also important to eat your meals. As you read before, skip your meals only cause your metabolism slowdown. Eat five small meals a day to keep your body's fuel supply consistent and keep your metabolism revved up. Avoid eating late at night because your metabolism naturally slows down in the afternoon and evening, so eat a healthy breakfast! Your body has been deprived of food throughout the night, therefore your metabolism has slowed. If the cells do not receive sufficient nutrients they will begin to function less efficiently on smaller amounts, and they will actually store more fat to use during these times of nutritional deprivation. And the breakfast will really help you.

Now, you already know that the key to increase your metabolism is a balance of exercise and diet. If you exercise and eat wisely, you will burn those fat stores and increase your metabolism. Not only will you lose weight, but you'll have more energy and you'll feel great.