Natural Metabolism Boosters Portland ME

Your metabolism is simply the rate at which your body uses the calories you are eating. And we've all heard that if you're eating more calories than you're burning, this is what causes your body to store fat and gain weight. So the key is to get your body burning through those calories fast and efficiently. By speeding UP your metabolism, you will have more energy, think more clearly and have a lean and trim body without excess fat. Follow these tips to speed up your metabolism naturally:

1. Eat every 2 or 3 hours. When you keep a constant supply of calories running through you, this signals to your body that “Food is in abundance. I don’t need to store fat.” It also speeds up your metabolism because it is able to quickly burn through all those calories that you are feeding it steadily throughout the day. You are literally giving yourself more "fuel" to run on, so your metabolism speeds up and gives you more vibrant energy. It's just like adding more coals into a steam engine so the train can go faster. When you put in a steady supply of calories, your body speeds up your metabolism and runs at a faster level. And by eating throughout the day, you are constantly burning calories by digesting the food. Most people don't know that digestion is one of the biggest calorie-burning functions your body performs.
2. Do some kind of activity EVERY day. Your body is designed to move. Movement and activity used to be a part of every human’s daily life until we invented cars and machines to do all the work for us. Our ancestors used to have to build shelter, climb over cliffs to search for food, and walk for long distances to find safe places to live. So in other words, the environment required the human animal to be active DAILY. Just because our modern environment has taken out the need to walk, climb and lift heavy objects in order to survive, does not mean that your body wants to stay still. Your body CRAVES movement. That’s why you release all those endorphins - the “feel-good” hormones when you do it. This is your body’s way of rewarding you for using it. And by having some kind of daily activity (even if it’s just walking up flights of stairs on your lunch break), your metabolism will speed up with all the activity because you're burning through calories at a much faster rate. This is why athletes eat all day long and stay so lean. They are actively burning up all those calories and not storing them as fat. But you don't have to have the same activity level as athletes, just have SOME activity every day.
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Author: Andrea Albright