Funny, yet, Effective Ways to Speed up Your Metabolism for Weight Loss

Metabolism is always on the receiving end. If you don’t lose weight or lose weight very slowly you blame your metabolism. And further still, you push hard and try to increase your metabolism.

The benefits of increased metabolism include the ability to stay fit with lesser physical activity, lesser effort to do the activities, lesser chances of weight gain and the ability to enjoy most of your favourite foods.

Needless to say that metabolism of a person is influenced by his or her age, sex, gender, temperature, his or her built, family history, hormonal changes and more. His or hers metabolic rate may also see a decline due to the changes in his or her lifestyle.

Your metabolic rate refers to the rate the at which your body burns energy during physical activity and the rate at which it uses energy during the digestion of food. To make it easier, you can say that your metabolic rate is the rate at which the body burns up calories. Ironically, you metabolize certain amount of fat even when you sit idle.

Always be on the move to increase your metabolism:-

1. Swing your legs when you sit idly
2. Drum your fingers on your desk
3. Stand up and stretch a couple of times as you work
4. Move your head from side to side
5. Change your sitting position
6. Pace up and down the room
7. Clench and release your muscles (any muscles)
8. Tap your feet to the rhythm of music
9. Climb the stairs

But do this when people aren’t noticing!

According to experts, a few other changes in your lifestyle can affect your metabolic rate and burn calories.

• Eat breakfast
• Take more of lean protein
• Eat six small meals a day
• Include fish, dark green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, fruits and whole grains
• Drink recommended quantity of water without fail
• Do some aerobics regularly. They keep burning your fat for hours after you stop your work out.

Cravings and temptations are the evil which feed your hips. Cravings can be often mistaken for hunger but they aren’t. Here are some simple, funny yet effective ways to beat your food cravings as you try to lose weight.

1. The best way is not to buy stuff like cakes, cookies and fries. But what if you already have the tastiest and unhealthiest of foods at home? You have spend green paper on them and they look delicious in your cabinets. You slowly reach for them one by one! You think, I can’t control. If you can’t, you throw them out. Give yourself a pat on your back after squeezing them or smashing them and throwing them in to the garbage bin. It is better to lose those easy pounds than spend eons in losing body pounds.
2. You’ve learnt your lesson by losing some money. Stop buying calories. Next is to change your diet patterns. If you have noticed, the more you eat foods the more you develop taste and long for them. So change what you have been eating. You are not tempted if you hear the name Yokan or see it in a plate because you don’t know that it is a Japanese sweet and what it tastes like. But if you see a piece of cheese cake your brows go up and your fingers reach out to the fork. So if you want to stick on to your weight loss plan eliminate those tempters from your diet and include healthier ones for you to get attuned to. It may be difficult but not impossible.
3. If you feel that relentless craving for cookies or ice cream throw some nuts in to your mouth. A combination of water, nuts and 20 mnts time would be sufficient to curb your appetite and throw water on your cravings.
4. Experts say that cravings are short lived. They may last only for about 10 or 15 mnts. If you can recognize your cravings then you succeed in steering past them. The wisest method is to distract your mind off the tempter. Eat your nuts, watch TV, read a book, call a friend or exercise!
5. One of the main culprits behind weight gain and hunger is stress. If you can deal with the chap then no worries in getting through. Learn to divert your mind off stressful things. Know when your hunger is induced by stress and tension. Understand that not everything is in your control and that you have to let things go.

Years and years of accumulated wisdom enables man to discern what’s right and what’s wrong and what’s best and what’s not. But at times, he falls prey to satanic temptations and turns a blind eye to his wisdom and intellect.

Let us go back again to explore the hidden wisdom and kindle our memories to rediscover the forgotten secrets of weight loss.

•   Sip some Rooibos tea in the morning. Rooibos tea is anti-mutagenic, anti-carcinogenic, anti-inflammatory and anti-viral. Next to the other numerous health benefits, rooibos tea may also play a role in your weight loss by inhibiting your appetite. Also, rooibos tea is calorie free.
• Be flexible! A bit of twisting up in the morning in the name of yoga would enhance your weight loss process. Yoga would help you to build your muscles, have a low BMI and speed up your metabolism.
• Always, always eat your breakfast no matter how late you are.
• Have your own vegetables. My best friend, the skinniest, has her own little garden in which she cultivates everything from papaya to pepper. This way she knows what manure she uses and how she grows her veggies and fruits. A vegetable garden of your own  would give you some physical activity, sense of satisfaction and a nutritious weight loss diet.
• Use turmeric in your daily diet as a habit. Curcumin in turmeric is a natural antiseptic and antibacterial with lots of health benefits. It is known to metabolise fat and help in weight management.
• Have your pickles and spice it up. Vinegar in pickles with its acetic acid, helps to reduce blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Spices like hot pepper are known to metabolism encouraging weight loss. They also kill your appetite making you feel full and enough. Next time you go to Subway, do not omit the pickles.
• Stop eating out. The reason is simple. You have grown your vegetables and you know what to throw in them while cooking. Then why eat out just to spill money and earn calories?
• Eat it all during lunch. Have a nice full meal in the afternoon instead of eating a lot of fatty calories in the night. This way you eat less in the night after a mild snack in the evening and wake up for a nice little breakfast.
• Chat, chat and chat as you eat! A long family meal would necessarily encourage slow and less eating. When you eat slowly you realize when you get full. But stay away from laughing and chocking!
• Take a good nap to de stress and lose weight. A siesta would keep your brain alert and enable you to know when you are hungry and when you are not.

Which of these would you try to lose weight?

We have talked a great deal about food and exercise. What are the factors that cause your weight loss goals to bounce off? Realise it or not, there are many things that deter your progress. Knowing your deterrents would keep your spirits up all through your weight loss programme.

1. Know that your gender plays a role in weight loss. The physiology of male and female are different from each other and the rate at which they can lose weight also differs. Women have a lot more fat than men and hence they are seen to lose fat in a slower rate than their lucky male counterparts. So if spouses or partners are in the same weight loss programme together they should have separate goals.
2. Never try to overdo your weight loss strategy. Respect your body and give it time to adjust. A change in the lifestyle will require some time to get adapted to and pushing things too far may crash your dreams. Overdoing exercise or over dieting will not only cause a wastage of time and energy it will also end in health problems and disappointments.
3. Get help from the right people only! You may need the help of a dietician, a physical trainer and medical practitioner. But just qualifications wouldn’t suffice. I would rather talk to my slim cousin who works out daily than to my plump doctor who has hardly seen the insides of a gym. Talk to your cousin about her eating patterns and her dualism as to how she is able to manage her family, her work and her exercise regimen. Talking to people who have succeeded in weight loss and how they are doing it matter even if you are not interested in following them.
4. Even weight loss have priorities. Eat and drink only what is needed to keep you healthy. What is more important, the meal or the dessert? Does the dessert give anything more than momentary enjoyment and calories that are difficult to burn? Keep holding to your priorities to keep the weight loss bouncers at bay.
5. Vitamin supplements are some good things available in the market. Use them when you need them. With a diet plan and a rigorous exercise routine you will need the support of multivitamins or essential fatty acids. With the help of a medical practioner choose your vitamin supplements or minerals for the weight loss period. Do not overstock them or overuse them. Even too much of nectar is poison.
6. Set only realistic goals without going overboard. You should try to lose at least one pound a week and not aim of losing three. If you cannot reach your weekly goals then your weight loss is not working well. You need not weight a month to see the results.
7. Finally, stop comparing. No two men are the same You may not lose weight like your father or brother did even while following their same routine and lifestyle. Know what can make you lose weight than hanging on to somebody else’s lifestyle.

Weight loss is simply not easy. You have to try hard and keep at it for long playing catch-up with your body until you succeed.