A Solution To Increase Your Metabolism

The metabolic rate of a person is a measure of how fast your body burns calories, which are, in turn, a measure of energy.

Burn more calories than your body burns and lose weight; burn more calories than your body burns and you gain weight. Another way of saying this: consume fewer calories than your body burns and lose weight; consume more calories than your body burns and you gain weight.

How to use your body's metabolism to lose weight, then, is twofold:

Consume fewer calories than you burn (and diet);

Burn more calories than you consume (as in exercise);

The average metabolic rate of the body and the rate at which the percentage of the daily value of nutrients on the nutrition label of a food is based, is 2000 calories per day.

Your body burns a certain number of calories per day for the mere fact of being alive - I other words, no exercise required. The process of respiration, for example, burns calories. As the blood circulation. All forms of burning calories based on nothing more than the fact of being alive make up what is called your basal metabolic rate (BMR). Interestingly, a person BMR accounts for about 60% of calories their bodies burn in a given day. The remaining 10% of calories burned in a day are burned by what we call food Thermongenesis including acts of eating and domestic food processing that produce heat.

It is possible to stimulate your body's natural metabolism, ie burn more calories in a short period of time, or to burn calories faster. Strength training (like lifting weights) is a means to achieve remarkable effects. When you lift weights, your muscles tear and must be repaired by the natural healing process of the body. These processes require the body to burn more calories. The body of a greater muscle mass burns more calories at rest in a given period of time. Generally, we burn 50 extra calories per day for each additional pound of muscle.

Beyond the weight training, the other tried-and-true method to boost your metabolism is to simply stay active. Simply moving burns calories, of course, the more you burn more calories than move. Take walks on your breaks at work. Park a block or two away. Ranger around the house while chatting on the phone. None of them require a gym membership or unscheduleable time block. A little longer adds much.

Finally, there are dietary measures you can take to help boost your metabolism. Drinks containing caffeine (green tea is one of the healthiest options) and has shown that both spicy foods to increase the body's metabolic rate. Also, if you start to have smaller, more frequent instead of juice of 2 or 3 large ("grazing" throughout the day, so to speak) meals, your metabolism will be in a constant state of activity fall down and processing your many small meals.