Boosting our metabolism!!!!

Welcome to our second week, the focus is on our metabolism. Having a high metabolism plays a vital role in weightloss as well as maintaining weight, as it helps burn fat at a  faster rate. Our metabolic rate can be affect by a host of factors, for example our age, as we get older our muscle mass decreases as a result our metabolism is believed to decrease 5% each decade after 40. It is also believed that we can inherit our metabolic rate.

So how do we raise our metabolic rate? The most talked about way is to eat small meals frequently throughout the day. Snacking on healthy foods between small main meals are advised. Participating in at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day is also a good way to boost your metabolism. Another option is drinking ice cold water, this works because or bodies burn calories while warming us to normal body temperature. Weight training is also a good way to boost our metabolic rate, and that's because  muscle burns way more calories than fat. Any beverage with caffeine such as coffee and tea also works well as metabolic boosters, consuming caffeine boosts our energy level, therefore we are able to workout for longer periods. Adding spices to our foods also help in crease our metabolic rate, so adding a little cinnamon in your waffles, pancakes, oatmeal etc. will give you that advantage.

Our challenge for this week is to raise our metabolic rate.

  Firstly, we are going to eat half of what we would normally eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner, then we will add a healthy snack between each meal (for instance if i would have a small omelet and some fruit for breakfast 2-3 hours later i would have a cup of yogurt, 2-3 hours later lunch and so forth).

The other half of our challenge is to continue drinking the required amount of water for you body weight(your weight divided by 2 in ounces), this time though lets drink the water cold.

 Please be advise that exercise should be done in addition to our challenges, so head over to our exercise page and click on the links for exercise. Have a healthy day everyone.