Any ways i can increase my metabolism?

Answer 1

Exercise is the best way. Aerobic exercise will increase your metabolism, and it's best to do it in the morning, so it will be increased all day. Weight training is also helpful. Muscles weigh more than fat, but they also burn more calories, so the more muscle you have, the more calories you will just naturally burn even when sitting still. Caffeine will boost your metabolism, but it's best not to increase your caffeine consumption too much. I'm sure you already do consume soda or coffee or tea on a regular basis, and caffeine pills can damage your heart. Nicotine boosts your metabolism, but only slightly, and it is not worth becoming an addict (I am speaking as a smoker, here). There are about a million different pills on the market that promise to boost your metabolism. I'm generalizing, but they mostly do not work, or if they do have even a slight effect, they are dangerous to your heart and other systems. Also, eating small regular meals is ideal for maintaining your metabolism. If you starve yourself or cut too many meals, your body will react defensively and begin hoarding every calorie you put in it, slowing your metabolism.

To summarize: There are a lot of ways to boost your metabolism slightly. The best way is to get regular exercise.

Answer 2

Take breakfast!! It’s a very important meal in a day. You need foods after hours of sleeping and the important is energy to start your day. You are not reducing your weight by not taking breakfast. But you are decreasing your metabolism level. It means that you just make it more difficult to lose weight!

Consistent exercises. It’s a very good way to increase your body metabolism. But make sure you do it in a consistency. Choose a suitable exercise for you. Or just a walk at your work place.

Drink plain water. Water is among the good element if you want to loss weight. See tips no 9 for more info about plain water.

Take a snack. Eat fresh fruits, vegetables or healthy salad before lunch. Don’t let your stomach sing a song!

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Answer 3

I've heard that eating 6 or 7 small meals during the day increases the metabolism. That would be healthy meals/snacks of course.

Answer 4

well that is great from Cartier ... however, what you need to know is that the metabolic rate settles down quickly into whatever calorific intake you give your body. So when you first start dieting,you lose weight fast. The trick is to diet for a couple of weeks and then raise your calorific intake back up to the recommended rate for a few days. Your body will readjust to that and then when you drop the calories again, you will experience weight loss easily. Good luck!

Answer 5

I've heard that exercising for about 30-45 minutes. Like a nice brisk walk or jog (something fat burning) every 12 hours keeps your metabolism up. Your metabolism stays up approx 12 hours after exercising then it goes down again. But if you exercise every 12 hours, it stays up. That's what I've heard anyway.

Answer 6

increased activity plus eating 5-7 small meals a day keeps your metabolism on high. you've got to eat breakfast to get things moving and then just eat healthy, small meals.

Answer 7

blah blah blah cartier95.

Anyway. Lifting weights helps boost metabolism as muscle burns more calories then fat.

Answer 8

Cardio

Answer 9

Increased activity/exercise is the only safe way.

Answer 10

First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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