Fat loss can improve your health. Muscle loss weakens your body and lowers your resting metabolic rate, causing you to gain weight even if you eat fewer calories.
This is often referred to as “lowering your metabolism”. Extra low calorie diets lower your metabolism.
Here’s how you can keep your metabolism revved up and still lose the fat.
1. Don’t Go Around Hungry
If you wait until you are hungry to eat, you will be more likely to overeat. Eating small meals every couple of hours keeps your metabolism stoked and reduces the likelihood that you will overeat at a single meal.
When your metabolism is working at high speed, you burn more calories even when you are sitting at your desk.
Eating small meals regularly spaced throughout the day has other health advantages. It helps to keep your blood sugar levels stable, which reduces your risk of type II diabetes.
It helps to keep your energy levels stable, because of the stable blood sugar levels. Energy loss stems from the drastic drop in blood sugar that occurs soon after eating a meal rich in simple carbohydrates.
Examples of simple carbohydrates include bagels, muffins, pasta and other processed grains.
Small, regularly spaced meals helps to keep your digestive system moving. You will be less likely to experience constipation, heartburn, acid reflux and other common digestive complaints.
Yet another benefit is that you will feel better in general. Your moods will be more stable. You will be less irritable, less anxious and just plain happier.
2. Munch on Raw Baby Carrots, Veggies and Fruits
Raw baby carrots and other crunchy raw fruits and vegetables are good for your health in many ways. When it comes to fat loss, the benefits have to do with net caloric intake.
You burn calories when you have to chew these crunchy foods. Your digestive system burns calories breaking the foods down.
The foods are relatively low in calories, but they still fill you up. They are also rich in soluble and insoluble dietary fiber. Increasing fiber intake is associated with easier fat loss and better digestive health.
The fiber absorbs some of the fat and cholesterol from the foods that you eat and carries them out of your body as waste.
3. Aerobic exercise is commonly recommended for fat loss and you do burn more calories during aerobic exercise. But, lifting weights in order to build muscle provides an additional benefit.
Muscle cells and tissues burn more calories when your body is at rest. A muscular person’s resting metabolic rate is much higher than that of a weak, flabby person. So, by building muscle, you boost your metabolism.
An easy way to build muscle and improve your flexibility is to work out with elastic bands. The elastic band sets are affordable.
You can use them anywhere because they are small and lightweight. You don’t have to invest in a gym membership or a home gym.
You can even do your workouts while you are watching TV. If you work out consistently with the elastic bands, you will get results.
4. Walk Everywhere
Movement of any kind speeds up your metabolism. An easy way to move more throughout the day is to walk everywhere.
Any trip that would take you less than 5 minutes in the car would take you about 15 minutes by foot. So, walk to your favorite restaurant for lunch.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Park as far away from your office or the store you are visiting as possible. Jump at any opportunity to go for a walk.
5. Consider a Stand-Up Desk
You burn more calories when you stand than when you sit. Sitting at a desk all day is bad for your health in a number of ways. Recent studies have shown that desk chairs are bad for the back.
If you can’t get a stand-up desk, get a yoga ball large enough to serve as a chair. They are available from numerous sports stores in a variety of sizes.
The position is better for your back, keeps you more alert and helps with your fat loss efforts.
6. Try a Bee Pollen Supplement
While there are numerous “fat-burning supplements” on the market, most of them contain caffeine, which is not really a fat burner.
The old studies showing that caffeine stimulated fat loss was conducted using animals or people who never consumed caffeine. If you’re like most people, you get plenty of caffeine already. You don’t need more.
Bee pollen supplements, on the other hand, are relatively new. Beekeepers have known for years that the pollen improved their health, but only in recent years has the public become aware of the fat burning potential of this natural product.
Another benefit of the better bee pollen supplements is that they increase your energy levels. So, you’ll feel more like walking. This supplement could be your fat loss solution.
7. A Genuine Fat Loss Program
Consider a complete fat loss program that will guide you through the basic movements patterns that will have a positive impact on your daily activities. For information on losing fat and not just weight please click on the FAT LOSS NOT WEIGHT LOSS Link in the author resource box below.
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