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Metabolism – you have heard about it and read about it, but it is still a hard concept to understand. We often hear about it in weight loss ads and medical journals, but how does it fit in with our daily diet and food consumption? Our dietary habits can have a direct effect on our metabolism, slowing it down or speeding it up, allowing us to lose weight, maintain it, or gain it back.
Whether it comes from a medical weight loss clinic or your neighbor, if you listen to your surroundings, you may have heard about metabolism as it relates to weight loss.
In layman terms, a faster metabolism breeds more calories burned and hence a loss of pounds. Conversely, a slower metabolism is sluggish in burning calories. We know that exercise and strength training can rev up our metabolism as we build muscle mass. Muscle mass is metabolically active and needs calories to maintain it, so the more of it you have, the faster your metabolism will be.
Your calorie intake is directly related to your metabolism. While reducing calorie intake for someone who is grossly over eating may be a good idea, calorie reduction for others who are attempting to diet may leave them at a higher weight then when they started.
A low calorie diet will signal to your body through hormonal changes that you are not eating as much as you once were, so it will conserve fat for the future. Your body only knows survival and it acts to keep all of your levels maintained. Basically, your metabolism is slowing down, and over time your body enters “starvation mode”, which can make life very difficult for the dieter. The longer you are in this mode, the harder it will be to pull out of it, for your body will become familiar with that state.
When you start eating normally again, your body will rapidly add to itself, storing for another “food famine” in the future. This often results in serious re-gain of weight often greater than pre-diet weights.
Eventually the body’s starvation response, if allowed to continue, will begin to break down muscle tissue for energy, which releases nitrogen in the body. The body eliminates the nitrogen by releasing water from your cells, which will seem as if weight has been lost, yet it is simply muscle and water. The weight will be quickly regained with more water intake and the loss of muscle will slow down your metabolism.
So how do I rev up my metabolism with food? Eat!
Eat fresh organic foods, without overeating. Do not miss meals, for once your body sees a lack of food it will enter the starvation response. If you need to cut calories for health reasons, cut them at a slower rate or lower your food intake at each sitting and eat more often during the day. Furthermore, weight training or exercises which add lean muscle mass will also speed up your metabolism because you are building more protein.
Dieting should never result in a lack of health for your body. We were meant to eat. The quality and types of food we eat are more important than severely restricting food. If you feed your body and give it what it needs, you will do more for yourself than 12 diets in one.
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