Increase Your Metabolism to Lose Belly Fat-Increase Your Metabolism to Lose Belly Fat-Increase Your Metabolism to Lose Belly Fat

If you are wondering how to lose weight quickly, you should know that the most effective methods of burning fat are by increasing your metabolism. The best techniques for getting your metabolism in full gear are quite simple. All you have to do is take proper care of your body by exercising regularly, as well as eating and drinking right to speed up your metabolism.

Working out your body is the most noticeable method of speeding up your metabolism and losing weight. Exercising brings more oxygen into your body. As a direct result, your metabolism is kicked into full gear to break down carbohydrates for energy, as well as burn stored fat from all over your body in order to keep you energized. Without working out your body, your metabolism will slow down, carbohydrates will build up, and fat will form all over your body.

You should also try to bulk up your frame with muscle. Building muscles with either cardiovascular exercise or resistance training improves the overall functionality of your metabolism, while gaining fat merely slows it down. Getting your heart pumping with cardio routines, like running and swimming, wakes up your metabolism. Meanwhile, weight training causes metabolisms to work quicker to burn off fat. When you start lifting to build muscle mass, concentrate on the quality of your exercise, rather than the quantity of reps performed.

Besides exercising regularly, eating well can also increase your metabolism. Specialists agree that you should eat five smaller times a day, opposed to three big meals to keep your body and its metabolism fully energized. Chowing down multiple times a day, a few hours apart from one another, also prevents you from overeating at mealtimes. Perhaps you should start bringing granola bars and fruits into the office to satisfy all of your food cravings.

For breakfast, steer clear of bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches at the local drive-thru. Rather, enjoy some wholegrain cereal, such as Cheerios and Total, with skim milk. Colorful fruit, such as apples, bananas and blueberries are always ideal selections on their own, or in yogurt. Rather than overloading your body with the caffeine found in coffee, you can wash everything down in the morning with water, if not green tea.

When it comes to mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks, steer clear of the vending machine. You can speed up your metabolism and lose belly fat fast by snacking wisely. Again, milk, fruit and yogurt are good choices. You can even get experimental mixing fruit into your yogurt. At the same time, vegetables, like carrots and broccoli, are also smart selections for slimming down. You can also nosh on mixed nuts, along with raisins to speed up your metabolism.

During lunch and dinnertime, your metabolism can be picked up with the right choices of meat, including chicken, turkey, beef and pork. Fish, such as tuna, salmon and sardines, are always healthy choices. Excellent vegetables include asparagus, tomatoes, cabbage and spinach. Be advised to eat plenty of fruit too, including lemons, limes and grapefruit. Even peppers, like jalapenos, cayenne and habaneros can effectively boost your metabolism. Just watch everything that you eat, along with working out your body, to lose belly fat quickly.

7 Ways to Boost your Spiritual Metabolism



Everyone wants to lose, or at least maintain their weight at some point in their lives. However the key to achieving your goal involves something called 'Metabolism'.

Think of it as an engine that that has not been started for some time. It may take time to start up, but once it has warmed up, it will go where you want it to.

When overweight, our body does not feel like exercising. But once you push yourself you start losing fat and gaining more muscle, and that's when your metabolism starts working. The more muscle you gain, the higher your metabolic rate, therefore the more calories you will burn. And the good thing is that it doesn't only work when you are in the gym but even while sleeping your metabolism is working for you burning off those calories.

Our faith is like our body's metabolism. If it is not started then you will never reach where you want to go. But once you start putting your faith to good use, you've started something in you that God was waiting for, in order to answers your prayers.

It's the kick-start that is needed in order for God to work with those who want their faith to achieve big results in their lives - to lose the excess weight that most of the time puts you down, makes you sluggish and that brings doubts that you will not overcome difficult circumstances in life.

Get it going and it's all that God needs to jbe with you, even answering your prayers while you sleep.

Below are the '7 Ways to Boost your Spiritual Metabolism'.

1.    Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Before your bacon, eggs, toast and tea, start your day by seeking the Holy Spirit. Present your day and all your plans to God before you do anything else. It's the spiritual food for your soul.

2.    Don't starve yourself. You need to feed your body with spiritual food to keep you going during the day, e.g. Read a few verses in the morning and continue to meditate on them throughout the day.

3.    Do more resistance training. Whenever a negative thought pops into your mind, reject it immediately, rather than allowing it to take up residence in your subconscious, only to resurface later on. Train yourself to resist negative thoughts.

4.    Increase aerobic activity. Be alert to people, places and situations that will tempt you to sin and if you find yourself in a tempting situation - run, run, run. This will also keep your mind and heart clean and healthy by avoiding sin and maintaining a clean conscience.

5.    Take added supplements. Make sure you attend the Wednesday meetings, not just Sundays alone. It's the extra boost you need to keep you going, especially during those more hectic weeks.

6.    Build more muscle. The more muscle you have, the more unwanted calories you will burn. Faith is this muscle, therefore the more you use it, the stronger you will become, burning away every doubt lurking in your mind.

7.    Avoid burnout. Do not rush into doing everything at once, otherwise you will lose interest quickly. The key is to not lose focus in what you are setting out to achieve. It's not a quick-fix to look good for others, it's not a 1, 6 or 12 month plan. It is for the rest of your life. If you get it right early-on, the sooner you will enjoy the benefits of your spiritual investment.

4 Ways to Keep Your Metabolism Burning Hot

By Rochelle Griffin

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We hear people all the time blame their weight-gain on their slow metabolism. Or we are told to eat several times per day to keep our metabolism moving, but if we already have weight to lose, isn't that counter-intuitive? Let's take a look into what exactly metabolism is, how is works, and what we can do to keep it working to our advantage.

I'm going to put my RN hat on for a moment so hang tight. Metabolism is the process that takes everything that we eat/drink and converts it into energy for our body to use. Our body uses this energy whether we are awake or asleep. It's a complex system that is different for everyone based on age, sex, and body composition (how much muscle and fat that you have.) When we say we've burned X amount of calories, we are talking about our metabolism and energy. Our basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of calories that our body uses to survive in a healthy manner at rest. This includes things that we don't have to think about: circulation, breathing, repair of tissues, etc. We can thank our BMR for about 60-75% of the calories that we burn daily. The rest of the calories burned depends on our physical activity and how well our body processes food.

Fact. One pound of muscle burns approximately 10-60 calories per day. The number varies per person. One pound of fat burns approximately 1-3 calories per day.

Fact. People who have more muscle mass burn more calories per day even when at rest.

Fact. Metabolism can be altered regardless of age.

Fact. Physical activity is the one variable that is most easily changed.

Most weight gain occurs because we ingest more calories than we burn, so common sense would mean that if we simply eat fewer calories, we'd lose weight, right? Well, not so fast. When we go on low-calorie diets or skip meals and don't eat enough calories to maintain our BMR, we are actually slowing our metabolism down. Our body is smart. It automatically thinks STARVATION, CONSERVATION, MUST SURVIVE. To protect itself to survive, body processes (ie metabolism) slow down. Even worse, our body begins to burn our own muscle for the necessary calories (yes this will show as a weight-loss on the scale but at what expense?) When our metabolism slows down, it suddenly becomes easier to eat more calories than we burn. Result? Weight-gain over time, even though we didn't mean to, and the weight gain is fat, which burns less than muscle. In essence, we've just replaced muscle with fat.

As a quick side note, let me add that yes, there are medical conditions that will affect metabolism and must be dealt with under a physician's care. The vast majority of people, however, do not fall into this category.

OK, so now that we've had a quick one-minute anatomy & physiology lesson, what can we do to change our metabolism? I'm going to give you four simple steps that work.

1. Eat 5-6 small meals per day. Have you ever been camping and sat around a campfire? If so, you'll remember that you must continue to add kindling to the fire so it doesn't burn out. We need to think of our metabolism as a fire. Eating small, frequent meals keeps our metabolism burning. Note: we must choose healthy foods for these meals. If our frequent meals consist of fat and sodium-laden, nutritional-void items, we've missed the mark entirely. If you struggle with eating that often due to work, plan ahead for portable, healthy snack foods including protein bars & Shakeology.

2. Add in weight training 3 times per week. Remember the above fact? Muscle burns more than fat. Adding more muscle to our body via weight training means less fat, a tighter body, and smaller clothing sizes. Yea, I could live with that.

3. Do aerobic exercise 5-6 times per week. Although cardio doesn't really help us build our large muscle groups, it does rev up our metabolism potentially for hours afterwards! Faster metabolism means more calories burned.

4. Drink enough water. Even being mildly dehydrated can slow your metabolism. Our body needs water to process calories into energy. Drink up!

In short, don't allow yourself to fall into victim-mode, believe the fallacy that you have a slow metabolism, and think that you can't do something about it. Also don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly slowing your metabolism down by low-calorie diets. If you will commit to eating 5-6 nutritious, small meals per day, adding in weight training and cardio exercise, and drinking enough water, you CAN make positive changes. I know you can, and I believe in you.

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Rochelle Griffin is a Registered Nurse with over 20 years experience who has transitioned her love for fitness, health, & freedom into a 6-figure international company that now helps others live the life of their dreams.

She founded GOFITCOACH.com with her husband Keith after stepping onto the edge of financial & physical ruin. Having experienced a complete turn-around, they now desire to give hope & support to those who are dissatisfied with their current situation.