10 Ways To Rev Up Your Metabolism And Lose Weight

Why would you want to rev up your metabolism? Well, your metabolism is the speed at which your body breaks down your foods and turns them into energy. The faster you break down energy and use energy, the less likely you are to store calories as fat. In other words, the higher your metabolism, the less fat your body will naturally maintain.

There are many little things you can do during the day to increase your metabolism – from being more fidgety to ensuring that you stay hydrated. Here are 10 suggestions to help you rev up your metabolism, making it easier to lose weight and get healthy.

10 Ways To Rev Up Your Metabolism

1. Eat Bigger Meals Early in the Day

Your body starts the day out with an extremely fast metabolism. Your body then gradually slows down its metabolism until night time, when the metabolism is much slower. Most people’s diet is completely the opposite of what it should be if you want to lose weight. Ideally, you should eat your biggest meal for breakfast. This allows your body’s fast metabolism to process all that food quickly. Likewise, you should eat your smallest meal at night when your body’s metabolism is slow.

2. Eat Low Glycemic Index Foods

The glycemic index is a grade for foods of how much it will spike your blood sugar. The higher the grade, the worse it is for your energy and metabolism. If you want a high, stable metabolism, stick to low glycemic index foods. This doesn’t mean you have to drastically change your diet. All you need to do is replace high GI foods with low GI foods of a similar nature. For example, instead of having potatoes, have red potatoes. Have whole grains instead of white rice. Have fruits for snacks instead of candy bars. Add a side salad to your steak instead of French fries. 

3. Start Your Day with Exercise

Movement increases metabolism during the activity and long after you’ve stopped the activity. Start your day with exercise and find other times during the day to keep moving.  This is the most simple and direct way to rev up your metabolism. If you want your body to process energy faster, you need to burn more energy. Otherwise your body simple won’t feel the need to have a fast metabolism. Work out on a regular basis, ideally at least 30 minutes a day, four days a week. This alone will do a lot to increase your metabolism.

4. Use Caffeine

Many people balk at the idea of purposely ingesting caffeine but let’s be honest – it’s in many supplements and drinks, and most of us use it. If you have no health issues that make it impossible to use, realize that it does boost metabolism but be careful.

5. Eat Healthy Lean Protein

The best foods that speed up metabolism are lean proteins which can be found in vegetables, fruit, legumes, fish, and lean meat. Avoid adding protein powders and processed ingredients to your food.

6. Drink Green Tea

Green tea is loaded with antioxidants, caffeine and something called EGCG (Epigallocatechin gallate) which is thought to boost metabolism. Also drinking cold water forces your body to heat up the water to digest it properly, thus using more calories and boosting your metabolism.

7. Eat Omega 3s

These are found in salmon, hemp seeds, flax seeds and chia seeds, and are all great ways to get in your Omega 3s which help lower the risk of heart disease, depression and dementia.

8. Try a Juice Feast

This consists of juicing vegetables and fruit for three to seven days instead of eating regular food. It’s important to ensure that you drink the juice whenever you are hungry and still get in your normal amount of water each day. A juice feast is a good way to jump-start your metabolism in a way that fills your body with nutrition.

9. Resveratrol Supplements

This ingredient, found in red wine, grapes, cherries, and cranberries, reacts on the body a lot like caffeine. These metabolism booster supplements may be a healthier option than caffeine.

10. Alkalize Your Blood

The level of acidity in your blood has a direct correlation to your metabolism. The ideal pH for your body’s bloodstream is 7.35. How do you know what your pH level is? You need to get your blood tested. Some insurance plans cover this, while others don’t. If you’re serious about increasing your metabolism, however, it’s a worthwhile investment. Once you get your pH test back, actively work on either increasing or decreasing your blood acidity level until it’s at the target 7.35 value.

Whichever methods you chose to incorporate into your life, it’s important that you talk to your health care provider to make sure that you are generally healthy. Taking pills to increase metabolism and even exercise can be dangerous for some people, especially if you’ve been sedentary for a long time. So it’s important that you go to your doctor, get a clean bill of health, and then work to boost your metabolism naturally in the healthiest ways that you can find.

Boosting Metabolism Naturally For Women

When you speed up your metabolism it’s much easier to  lose weight. You allow your body’s natural functions to worker harder to lose fat. But men and women don’t lose fat the same way – even when using the same methods. Men lose fat faster than a woman because their metabolism is different. Depending on how fast or slow your metabolism rate is, you’ll either burn calories quickly – or you won’t. This ‘Women Only’ video presentation reveals a breakthrough discovery that shows women how to rev up your metabolism to burn fat faster and easier than you ever thought possible.