We all know that metabolism is the rate at which your body burns fat. The faster is your metabolism, the faster your body can burn fat and the faster you can lose weight for real.
For those who were born with a fast metabolism, they usually don’t even have to worry about metabolism.
But if you were not so “lucky” to be born with a fast metabolism, there is good news.
The single most important thing you need to know about metabolism
This is all you need to know about metabolism: no matter what metabolism you were born with, it CAN be changed, and can be changed AT WILL.
How can you do that?
Simple (albeit not easy), force your body to adapt a new routine that includes:
1. Eat more often (but not more amount).
When you eat more often, you are “signaling” your body that there are more food to come, and no need to store fat at a fast rate.
You can start by simply breaking up whatever you are eating daily into 6 portions and eat them every couple of hours or so, instead eating them in only 3 or less meals.
It’s one of the “regulating signals” that are very important in your quest for real weight loss.
2. Be physically active in a systematic manner, in other word, start an exercise routine, especially one that involves “weights”, be it gym weights, or body weights.
Weight training is the most effective way of burning fat, simply because weight training grows your muscle mass, and muscle mass is the regulator of metabolism. The more muscle mass you have, the faster your metabolism will be.
It’s important to begin to realize this: your body must consume (burn off) lots of fat in order to grow new muscles.
3. Do this consistently, for a certain amount of time (12 weeks for example).
It’ll take some time to “teach” your body to adapt the new metabolism rate. The good news is that once your body adapts to a new, faster metabolism rate, it will tend to stay that way, thus naturally burns fat faster than before.
It’s a simple principal: “what’s in motion, tends to stay in motion”.
This is a sure fire way to not only lose weight for real, but also transform your body’s own behavior into one that burns fat effectively, and thus keeping the weights off without you even having to constantly battling with it, as so many do “yo-yoing” from one diet fad to another.
Though sounds simple, it is not easy for sure. The key is to tackle it (weight loss) in a systematic approach.
Take a different approach than what you’ve been doing before but didn’t work, really think about and set your goals, and get on with a good “system” that are designed help your succeed, not those that are designed to make you fail so that you can come back over and over again to spend more money with them.
We will talk about more on this in the coming posts.