Your metabolism is KEY to you losing weight.
Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the number of calories your body burns on a daily basis. For example, using a BMR calculator a 40 year old woman weighing 150lbs and measuring 5ft 6 inches burns 1,430 calories per day.
That means without performing ANY activity, this woman would start to lose weight if she simply ate less than 1,430 calories per day.
There are ways to boost your BMR and this article is going to share some NATURAL ways you can do so.
But first, are you interested to know how many calories your body burns on a daily basis? You can find a BMR calculator on Google, but first let's just talk numbers.
There are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. Therefore, if you want to lose one pound, you need to burn 3,500 calories more than you consume. Increasing your metabolism is one fantastic way to do so.
Let's assume your BMR is 2,000 calories per day. With the minimal amount of activity you can easily be burning 2,500 calories per day. If you were to consume just 2,000 calories per day (which is more than sufficient) then each week you would have a calorie deficit of 3,500 calories - which just so happens to be one pound of fat, meaning you will be losing one pound per week.
Losing weight is a game of numbers. Although it's not an exact science, it's important to know your BMR so use a calculator to find out yours.
Now, here's three quick tips to boost your metabolism, burn more calories and lose weight.
Quick Tip #1
Can you believe that the simple act of consuming spicy foods can help you burn more calories? And you don't even have to lift a finger.
A group of Canadian researchers identified that consuming certain spices has the ability to increase thermogenesis - or fat metabolism. In fact, they found that spicy foods can increase your metabolism by 25% for up to 3 hours.
Add chili peppers (chili peppers are one of the best metabolism boosting foods) to your meals when you can, and try to include spicy sauces, such as Tabasco to give your metabolism that kick start that it needs.
Quick Tip #2
Muscle requires more calories to maintain itself than fat. Research has revealed that adding one extra pound of muscle to your body enables you to burn an extra 35-50 calories per day. Add 10 pounds of pure muscle and burn 350-500 extra calories per day. That's equivalent to losing one pound of fat every 7-10 days.
Get down the gym and pack on some muscle...
Quick Tip #3
Here's another way to kickstart your metabolism without having to make drastic changes to your lifestyle.
Research in the New England Journal of Medicine has revealed that making yourself cold activates the fat burning properties of brown fat. This is a good type of fat that helps to rev up your metabolism. Dr Francesco Celi suggests that just 50g of brown fat can burn up to 20% of a person's daily calorie consumption - that's up to 500 calories.
To activate your fat burning brown fat you need to make yourself cold. During your daily shower (you do shower daily, right?) shower as normal in warm water and then turn the temperature right down for 30 seconds. This dramatic change in temperature activates your brown fat and causes it to start burning calories like crazy.
There are a bunch of ways to "trick" your body into burning calories faster, these were just a few quick tips.
There are an abundance of natural metabolism boosters that can help to kick start your fat burning furnace. Find out what they are and incorporate them into your diet.
Download a free report revealing how you can boost your metabolism, including some of the best metabolism boosting foods to help you burn an extra 200-500 calories per day.
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