Eat Often to Rev Up Your Metabolism

When it comes to losing weight, how many pounds you lose isn’t as important as what those pounds are made of.

For example, if you lose 10 pounds, but half the weight is muscle, your metabolism is going to suffer. That’s because, pound for pound, muscle burns more calories than fat. Surprisingly, the frequency at which you eat when dieting affects the type of weight you lose.

In a British Journal of Nutrition study, weight-loss participants who ate frequent meals preserved considerably more lean muscle tissue than those who ate fewer daily meals but consumed the same number of calories.
A separate Scandinavian study found similar results when testing two different weight-loss diets on a group of athletes.
Although all of them lost equal amounts of weight, those who ate fewer meals lost mostly lean muscle tissue. The participants who ate more frequent meals lost almost all fat tissue, preserving their precious calorie-burning muscle.

The lesson here is: To keep your metabolism revved and blast pounds, eat regularly.

moderate walking or having sex

Moderate-intensity walking is the best cardiovascular exercise you can give your body. It’s a low impact exercise, which means it will reduce the impact on your knees, especially if you’re carrying around more weight than you’d prefer!

It’s important to walk with good posture, as it can increase the number of calories you burn and make your walk more enjoyable. You want walking to be a total-body experience, not just something that involves your legs.

So make an effort to use your upper body, which will increase your calorie burn. Be sure to keep your head facing forward, not angled down, and hold your arms at 90-degree angles and pump them in the air as you walk.

And when you step, concentrate on pushing off through your heels – not the balls of your feet. The best part of all is you can powerwalk anywhere: around your neighborhood, during your lunch break or even at the mall!

If you’re not having enough fun working out, take your workout to the bedroom!

Vigorous sexual activity can burn an easy 100 calories or more, and hey – why not? It’ll make your partner happier and strengthen your relationship, which means that burning extra calories is really just a fringe benefit.

If you tend to be more of a mild-mannered lover, don’t be afraid to get a little more frisky to make it worth the while.

Sex can be a great cardiovascular exercise for your heart and lungs. And it’s also great for toning your core – that is, if you do it enough.

Sex also releases feel-good endorphins, which can help boost your sense of mental well-being, which can boost your self-efficacy and benefit you at the gym.

So the next time you find yourself complaining that you just don’t have time for exercise, take your frustrations out between the sheets! The more, the merrier.

Have more sex, it is good and natural.

Proper diet

Attention dieters: Are you sick and tired of feeling hungry and exhausted by early afternoon? Fight daytime fatigue by following the “diet at dinner” philosophy. Instead of skimping on breakfast, the most important meal of the day, or lunch, the meal that takes you through to the end of the day, give yourself a break and boost your energy levels by eating a substantial breakfast and lunch and scaling down on dinner.

After all, dinner takes place at the time of day that you’re winding down anyway. Your energy output is drastically decreasing, and there’s no need to stuff yourself if you’re going to bed in a couple hours.
Although dinner is traditionally our largest meal in the Western lifestyle, this is more of a social custom than anything else. It doesn’t make sense to eat your largest meal at the end of the day if you’re trying to lose weight.

Don’t diet at breakfast, and make sure you eat according to your hunger status at lunchtime. Then, when dinnertime rolls around, you won’t feel so hungry that you end up overeating.
Take your dinner portions down a notch, and you may soon be tightening your belt buckle instead of loosening it.

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