Saturday, November 22, 2008

The Best Way to Accelerate Your Metabolism and Lose Body Fat

By Ricardo d Argence

You have taken the first and hardest step in your weight loss journey and that is acknowledging that you want to lose weight. When you are not happy with your weight, it can take an emotional and a physical toll on you.

But people can have a difficult time realizing that in order to lose weight they actually should eat moe often throughout the day. A common strategy at the beginning of a diet is a drastic reduction in the amount and kinds of food eaten. However, that may in fact ultimately do more damage than produce any benefit.

When you don't eat sufficient amounts of food in a day's time, you just set yourself up for failure with your weight loss plan. By not eating enough you set your body up to have low energy throughout the day. Your weight-loss efforts will be thwarted by your body's natural retreat into starvation mode, which includes increased efforts to store more fat. Drastic deprivation also causes you to experience more-intense-than-normal food cravings.

Your body's main goal is to keep yourself alive and operating properly and healthfully. Our systems have all sorts of survival mechanisms in place to keep your systems working. These systems will automatically start up when your body gets the signal that it is needed. One of our most highly developed defensive mechanism is our response to famine.

You could sit down and eat whatever you want that your internal mechanisms do not really realize. Your body does not recognize your choice to consume fewer calories, but operates in a starvation mode, making adjustments to be able to provide energy for its functions.

Your body's famine response will kick in automatically by keepong yourself from eating for long between meals or by not eating enough throught the day. When this happens, it automatically slows your metabolism, making it more difficult to burn fat quickly and effectively. Having an efficient metabolism is an essential key to your success,when your goal is weight loss.

You will start to lose the toned muscle instead of the fat as a result of your eating habits. If you are not getting enough protein to get your body through its regular routines then your muscle mass will suffer. Additionally, by loosing this lean muscle you will be slowing down your metabolic rate even further. Again reducing the amount of fat that your body is able to burn.

When you are looking to lose weight, ensuring that your metabolism is fully functioning is an essential step to ensuring your success. The key to keeping your metabolism up is to make sure that you are eating small meals about three hours apart. If you do that in coordination with a fitness program you are sure to quickly become the new you that you have always dreamed of being. - 15438

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