How To Raise Your Metabolism To Burn Fat

How To Raise Your Metabolism To Burn Fat

One of the main reasons that people struggle to burn fat is because they are laden with misconceptions about how you lose weight or they don’t understand the most important aspects of burning fat. I have seen many people who attempt to lose weight by not eating much. This will actually have a negative impact on your ability to lose weight. The best way to burn fat and lose weight is to raise your metabolism, yet despite this, dieters often ignore this very important fact. They believe if they merely cut their calories to insanely low levels that they will be able to drop the pounds they want to get rid of. They are constantly searching for the magic bullet that will provide them with extreme weight loss. However, in the end they are once again met with failure.

As I mentioned the best way to lose weight and burn fat is to raise your metabolism but how do you do this? There are two basic ways to go about this. The first is to pick up your general activity throughout your day and the second and most effective way is to build muscle. We will take a look at each of those in a second but before we do I want to talk about something you can do to keep your metabolism from slowing down.

Eating often throughout the day will keep your metabolism from grinding to a halt. The main mistake that many people make when trying to lose weight is that they don’t eat enough. There is a direct correlation between the number of calories that we take in and but it is not as simple as that. If you cut your calories too drastically then you will force your body to take drastic action. It will begin to store fat for energy in the future and it will begin to slow your metabolism down so that you do not create energy depletion.

When this happens you will struggle to lose weight even though you are eating a very restrictive diet. The key is to eat often throughout the day (around 5 or 6 times). You will eat smaller meals each time, maybe just a piece of fruit for some of the between meal snacks. This does a couple of things. It keeps hunger at bay and you are less likely to binge at any of your normal meals. It also keeps your insulin levels more constant throughout the day. This keeps you away from insulin spikes which may store fat when it occurs. This alone will greatly help your metabolism or at least keep it from dropping.

I heartily recommend dropping calories but only in the neighborhood of 250 calories or so below you BMR (basal metabolic rate). Your BMR is how many calories you will burn through normal activity during the day. It is this number that will increase when you increase your metabolism.

You can increase your metabolism through increasing your activity level. Spend more time exercising and more time walking or participating in general activity. The more you sit the less your metabolism will be. This is a problem since many of us sit all day at work. That is why it is important that you don’t do too much of it when you get home.

The biggest way to raise your metabolic rate is by adding lean muscle. If you are fortunate you will burn 300 calories or so each day by doing exercise. You can probably accomplish this in 30 minutes fairly active exercise. The bad part is in order to double it to 300 calories you would have to exercise at least an hour every day. There are also some other problems with that since once you get past about 45 minutes of cardio exercise you begin to eat muscle for energy.

However, the bulk of the calories that you body uses through the day has nothing to do with exercise but everything to do with the composition of your body. One way of calculating BMR is to do so on the basis of your lean muscle mass. For every pound of muscle in your body you will burn nearly 10 calories each day. The problem arise when individuals are only worried about weight loss and not what type of weight loss. If you were to lose 10 pounds in a month but 5 of those pounds were muscle then you would have slowed your metabolism down to the tune of 50 calories per day. This will fight against you and make it very difficult to lose weight going forward. If however, you were to change the shape of your body and not worry yourself so much with weight loss then you could see your body transform itself right before your eyes. The ideal would be would be to add 10 pounds of muscle but lose no weight. What it would mean is that you would have lost 10 pounds of fat in the process but added muscle so that you did not realize any weight loss. In this instance you would have raised your metabolic rate by 50 calories each day and would be well on your way to further weight loss.

Raising your metabolism will spur your fat loss and muscle building. Give it a try. Include weight lifting in your exercise program and begin to pack on some muscle.

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