Lose Weight By Burning MORE Calories!

Your body is constantly burning calories in order to keep you going - think of it as a fire within you, burning your fat and food away. Your metabolism is the amount of energy in calories that your body burns in order to maintain its weight.

In the battle of the bulge and the fight against fat, boosting your metabolism is one of the best
weapons you can have in your arsenal. Getting your internal fire burning will help you lose weight and feel better about yourself.


Start Eating
Yep. Eat. You have to eat in order to keep your metabolism running in an optimal manner. Are
you skipping breakfast in order to cut back on calories and lose weight? Bad battle plan,
soldier. Let’s work out a battle plan together here and I’ll show you just why you need to eat,
when you should eat and what you should eat.
Remember that not eating sends your army into survival mode, right? It believes you are
starving and so slows down it’s metabolism in order to conserve its stores. Let’s say you’ve
been asleep for 8 hours. You didn’t have anything to eat for two to three or more hours before
you went to bed last night. Now your body has been without food for about 11 or 12 hours. If
you skip breakfast, you’re adding more time and your body is starting to whimper and wonder
where its fuel is and if it’s ever going to come and should it start conserving now because
starvation is just around the corner? You’ve got your little soldiers all up in a lather and that’s
not a good thing.
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Now, what happens if you go to bed, get up and eat a healthy breakfast? You have, in essence,
broken your fast. You’ve been fasting for ten or more hours and now it’s over. Your little
soldiers can relax and get back to their normal duty, which is burning calories instead of storing
them.
Eat small meals and eat them often during the day. Research has shown that breaking down
the traditional three meals a day into six smaller meals, spaced evenly throughout the day will
result in a boost to your metabolism.
No this does not mean you can go out and have a Mcbreakfast meal in the morning, a steak and
fries two hours later, five Twinkies and a ho-ho next, then tacos with sour cream and
guacamole for your next meal, BBQ ribs with mashed potatoes for your fifth meal and a trip to
that all-you-can-stuff-into-yourself-buffet at the mall for your sixth and final meal of the day.
Sure, you might be boosting your metabolism a bit, but you’re overcompensating with too
many calories and losing the Battle of the Bulge in a BIG way. Your soldiers will be so over-run
with calories that they will be forced to store them as fat.
Break down your meals into six smaller and HEALTHIER meals during the day. Lower your
caloric intake in a healthy manner and your little soldiers will not only win the battle, you’ve
given them the right weapons to win the entire war.
Also, avoid white in your diet. Simple sugars, rice and refined flour are all absorbed quickly by
your body and are turned into fat stores. Eat more complex carbohydrates. They take a longer
time to be absorbed into your body and this enables your blood sugar to remain level. Try
eating brown rice instead of white rice, whole grains in your breads and pasta made from
wheat flour instead of white refined flours.
Avoid caffeine and drink green tea instead. Caffeine is known to bock absorption of vitamin C,
create a bit of unhealthy acid in your system and stimulate sugar cravings. If there’s one thing
you don’t need when you’re trying to lose weight, its sugar cravings. Green tea has
antioxidants and doesn’t have all those nasty side effects that coffee can give you.
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Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. Water flushes out all the toxins that are set free when
you’re losing weight. If you are dehydrated, your metabolism slows down. Try drinking very
cold wate when you’re pushing the H2O. Your body has to remain warm and it will boost your
metabolism a bit each time it has to warm up after your glass of ice water.
Chill Out and Heat Up
Do you enjoy a nice long soak in a hot tub full of water hot enough to blister your skin? Who
doesn’t? How about spending time in a steamy sauna with sweat pouring off your body?
Maybe you like turning your thermostat down in the winter till it’s so cold you can see your
breath in the house when you talk?
If these activities appeal to you then slap yourself on the back (yes that will burn calories too)
because heating yourself up and chilling yourself down have been shown to boost your
metabolism by about 20%.
Speaking of heat, add a bit of spice to your life and your food. Studies have shown that..