Want to Lose Weight? Boost Your Metabolism! Here are 5 Ways... A ton of research has been done investigating why some people lose weight while others don't, why some people succeed at keeping weight off once they've lost it while others don't, and what factors tend to influence your ability to successfully maintain a healthy body weight.

1. Want to Lose Weight? Boost Your Metabolism! Here are
5 Ways...
A ton of research has been done investigating why some people lose
weight while others don't, why some people succeed at keeping weight
off once they've lost it while others don't, and what factors tend to
influence your ability to successfully maintain a healthy body weight.
What it boils down to is your metabolism.
Very simply, thinner people have a higher metabolism than heavier
people. The reason...thin people have more fat-free mass OR lean
muscle than their heavier counterparts. Since muscle burns roughly
50x times calories than fat it would make sense that having more lean
muscle would be a predictor of long-term success in weight
management.
Take Home Message #1: Resistance training builds lean muscle and
is therefore ESSENTIAL to boosting your metabolism and thus helping
you lose weight and keeping it off for good.
Take Home Message #2 - Best Predictors for Keeping Weight
Off...
A very interesting study out of the journal Obesity Research found that
the best predictors for weight maintenance after weight loss were the
following:
• an increase in dietary restraint during weight loss,
• a high baseline resting metabolic rate (as a result of
resistance training),
• a rather stable body weight (ie. no excessive fluctuations in
weight gain/loss), and
• a low frequency of dieting
Take Home Message #3 - It's All About Lifestyle

2. I don't know how many times I've said this in my life but it needs to
said again...You can't maintain a healthy weight without a consistent
effort towards improving your lifestyle. You need to make healthy
eating and resistance training a regular part of your life, especially if
you've been battling excess weight for most of your life.
Here's a simple reason why. A large meta-analysis on metabolism
published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition revealed that
formerly obese subjects had a 3–5% lower metabolic rate than control
subjects.
Now many people would just say "Well, being fat is just in my jeans!"
And that may be partially true BUT... the researchers in this study
found that whether the cause of this lower metabolism was genetic or
acquired, the existence of a low metabolism was likely to
contribute to the high rate of "weight regain" in formerly obese
persons.
These findings only further demonstrate the need for boosting your
metabolic rate! And this doens't occur by spending endless hours doing
cardio and following low carb diets!
5 Metabolism-Boosting Strategies:
Here are 5 ways that you can immediately start revving up your
metabolism for the long run so that you can achieve and maintain your
ideal for good!
1. Eat LIVING FOODS every day
High amounts of food enzymes found in living foods allow your body
spend more energy on metabolism and less on digestion. Here's how
you can start.
2. Spend more time RESISTANCE TRAINING instead of cardio
Lean muscle doesn't come about by doing cardio 7 days a week. You
need to stress your muscles to develop them. Use your body weight,

3. use resistance bands, use machines, use dumbbells, or any other form
of resistance. The key is impose weight bearing resistance against
your body! Use Fitter U if you haven't already.
3. Eat small meals throughout the day
We've all heard this before and for good reason. Keep your fire
burning by adding small amounts of wood to it throughout the day -
that's the analogy.
4. Spice up your meals
The following herbs and spices are well-known to speed up
metabolism: cayenne pepper, jalapeno peppers, ginger, peppermint,
and cinnamon - just to name a few.
5. Have a cup of GREEN TEA
Green tea has been shown to boost metabolism. Researchers believe
that antioxidants in green tea can cause the body to waste calories as
heat, which increases your caloric burn.
Yuri
References:
Vogels, N. et al (2005). Predictors of long-term weight maintenance.
Obesity Research, 13: 2162-68.
Astrup, A. et al (1999). Meta-analysis of resting metabolic rate in
formerly obese subjects. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 69 (6):
1117-1122.