Have you ever seen an ad for the next latest and greatest
weight loss program or diet pill, only to see in fine print
that this person also ate a balanced diet and did regular
exercise? The other common complaint all the time is "I
workout hard everyday and I don't lose a pound." Does this
sound like you? The key to achieving health weight loss
and keeping it off for a lifetime is understanding your
metabolism.
When you think about weight loss you want to think in terms
of a diet fitness program. The problem many people do is
they only focus on one aspect which leaves them always
falling short of their goals.
What is metabolism any way?
Your metabolism doesn't have to be confusing. Let's break
your metabolism down in to two aspects. First, is your
body's ability to break down food that you eat and convert
it into energy or store it. You can store fat in your fat
cells though you do store carbohydrates in your muscle
cells to be used as energy later. The second is the rate
at which your body produces energy, or do you have a fast
or slow metabolism? The other key part to your metabolism
is what you are burning for energy.
Your metabolism wants small amounts of food at regular
intervals throughout the day. Typically every 2-3 hours is
a good time to eat. This isn't eating the average American
meal 5 times a day, more cutting your meal in half and
eating that amount throughout the day. When we go longer
than 3 hours between meals are body starts to store the
food we do eat as fat, and can burn away muscle tissue for
energy instead of using your food. When you eat 5 small
meals a day you train your body to use fat as your main
fuel source. A proper metabolism burns 70% fat as its main
source of energy all day long. Just think while you are
working sitting at your chair you are burning fat.
It is through exercise that we raise our metabolism up.
The amount of calories we burn is not as important as the
rate at which we burn calories. If burning 3500 calories
worked than all the walkers at the gym would be the
thinnest people. You typically see runners much thinner
than walkers and that is because running burns calories at
a greater rate and raises up your metabolism. You burn
more calories by raising up your metabolism the entire day
than you can in any workout.
Cardio interval training is considered one of the best ways
of raising up your metabolism. Interval training is short
burst of high intensity follow by short durations of low
intensity and then repeated. People after doing an
interval workout burn more fat as a source of energy for
the entire day after than any other form of cardio. You
only want to do one interval workout per week as over doing
it creates over training and a drop in results.
Combining exercise and eating 5 small meals and you will
unlock your weight loss potential. This not only the
fastest ways to lose weight these habits work for the rest
of your life to have more energy and keep the fat off your
body.
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About The Author: Charles Carter, BS in Exercise Science is
President of LIVE, llc of http://www.liveleantoday.com -
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