Thursday, November 20, 2008

How to Accelerate Your Metabolism and Lose Body Fat

By Ricardo d Argence

Your acknowledgment of the need and desire to lose weight is the first and most difficult step on the path to weight loss. When your weight is of concern to you, the emotional and phyical toll it takes on you can be very stressful.

Some people find it hard to get their head around the fact that eating more often will help them to lose weight. People who are beginning the process of losing weight tend to first think that cutting how much they consume will help them. Doing more harm than good but that can actually end up.

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.

That you could sit down and eat whatever you want is not really realize by your internal mechanisms. You body will automatically go into starvation mode if it thinks that you are choosing not to eat enough calories to get through it's daily functions.

Your body will begin to think that it is starving if you choose not to eat enough or if you wait for long periods of time between meals. You shouldn't do this because your body will react in a negative way. You will slow down your metabolism making it harder to burn the fat you are trying to lose. An effecient metabolism is the keystone of a successful weight loss plan.

As a result of your eating habits you will start to lose the toned muscle instead of the fat. The muscles in your body will suffer and have problems with typical daily activites if you have a diet that is low in protein. The loss of lean muscle also causes your metabolic rate to diminish even further. Again reducing the amount of fat that your body is able to burn.

A crucial component of successful weight loss is ensuring that your metabolism is working at peak function. Eating small meals at three-hour intervals is the key to keeping your metabolism functioning at its peak. Doing that, combined with a targeted fitness program, is likely to produce the new body you have always dreamed of having. - 15343

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