5 Safe Metabolism Boosters

by andrew

Five safe Metabolism Boosters

You already know that exercise boosts your metabolism, of course.

And we can not recommend highly enough that you do some type of aerobic activity every day, even if it’s just walking up a few flights of stairs a few times a day at work, or taking a brisk walk on your lunch hour.

If you do aerobic exercise, your metabolism remains higher for up to eight hours after you finish exercising!

And if you exercise enough to put on more muscle, so much the better.

Building up muscle can boost your metabolism by ten percent or more, which will generally mean you can eat a few hundred more calories a day.

But when you’re dieting you need all of the help that you can get, so here are some ways to boost that metabolism and burn those calories off faster.

  1. Magnesium is necessary to keep your metabolism functioning properly. If you are not getting enough magnesium in your diet, your metabolism may slow down.
  2. Vitamin B is another vitamin that is essential for boosting your metabolism. B-12 in particular is known to give an energy boost and increase your metabolic rate.
  3. Spicy foods. Studies show that eating foods containing ingredients like black pepper, ginger, and chili peppers can boost your metabolism by as much as 8 percent for several hours after you eat them!
  4. Green Tea not only boosts your metabolism, studies show that it has health benefits including acting as an anti-oxidant and protecting against heart disease.
  5. Water Dehydration causes your metabolism to slow down. Even mild dehydration can cause your metabolism to slow down as much as three percent, in much the same way that cutting back on calories does.When your body is deprived of water, it slows down all of its metabolic functions. Drinking water not only fills you up, it keeps your metabolism functioning efficiently.

There you have it.

Five Safe ways to increase your Metabolism and get into shape.

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Crash Diets and Fitness Don’t Mix

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Most dieters want to lose weight for a couple of reasons: they want to look good and feel more attractive, or they want to get healthier.

And if they’re being honest with themselves, in our weight obsessed society, most dieters are probably more motivated by a desire to look good then they are by health reasons.

However, there’s certainly nothing wrong with wanting both.

And to truly look good and be healthy, you must get into shape — you can’t JUST lose weight.

Thin, flabby, wobbly, and becoming easily out of breath is neither an attractive nor healthy state of being.

So you need to exercise regularly while you are losing weight.

Now, here’s the problem with crash diets and exercise: they end up being mutually exclusive. Nearly impossible to do at the same time.

Don’t do it.

Most diets call for a drastic reduction in calories. This will leave you feeling exhausted and it will be very hard for you to summon up the energy to exercise.

This is especially true if you are on a low carbohydrate diet.

After all, what do athletes eat right before a marathon or any other endurance type sport, where they will need energy and stamina?

That’s right, they eat carbohydrates.

When you exercise, your body needs to be able to immediately access carbohydrates to burn for energy. The body burns carbohydrates as fuel for the first 20 minutes of exercise before it starts accessing your fat stores, according to The Physician And Sports Medicine Journal.

If you are on a low carbohydrate diet, believe me, you will not even last that 20 minutes to get to that fat burning zone.

You will not have the energy.

To be able to last that 20 minutes, you would need to eat complex carbohydrates.

We’re not saying that you should scarf down a candy bar or donut right before exercise; those are simple carbohydrates that are metabolized very quickly and send your blood sugar shooting up and then crashing down.

Most athletes or even people who are just going for a jog or bike ride benefit if they eat something like a granola bar or a piece of fruit an hour or two before exercising.

Carbohydrates slowly release energy and sustain you so that you can exercise longer.

So when you consider a weight loss or getting in shape program, you are going to want to pick one where you will have enough energy to exercise as you lose weight.

Eat healthy and choose an exercise regime that goes hand in hand.

And avoid the temptations of going on one of the fad diets.

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