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Increase your metabolism

Stop slashing calories

Restricting calories signals the body that there is no food available, so it stores the energy slowing down its metabolism. Keep your metabolism revved eat regular meals with snacks to give your body a constant supply of healthy fuel.

A sure way to slow down yours is by depriving your body of fuel. Food stimulates the metabolism, a process called “dietary induced thermo genesis.”

Be smart about how you jump start your metabolism

Eat breakfast. Break Fast. You have been fasting all night, eat for Pete’s sake. Give your body healthy fuel to energize your day. Eat a whole grain, a piece of fruit, and protein.

Fuel your body for energy

You wouldn’t add water to the gas in your car why use poor fuel in your body? Read the ingredients, the fewer the better and all of them should be part of the basic food group.

Let’s look at 2 different strawberry yogurts:

Serving Size: 1 container/ 6oz / 170g

Calories: 170

Calories from Fat: 15

No fiber

Carbs – 33 grams

Sugars – 27 grams

Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Low Fat Milk, Sugar, Strawberries, Modified Corn Starch, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Nonfat Milk, Kosher Gelatin, Citric Acid, Tricalcium Phosphate, Natural Flavor, Pectin, Colored with Carmine, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3

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Serving Size: 1 container/ 6oz / 170g

Calories: 120

Calories from Fat: 10

No fiber

Carbs – 21 grams

Sugars – 20 grams

CULTURED PASTEURIZED ORGANIC LOW FAT MILK, ORGANIC STRAWBERRIES, NATURALLY MILLED ORGANIC SUGAR, PECTIN, ORGANIC BEET JUICE CONCENTRATE (FOR COLOR), NATURAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN D3. CONTAINS OUR EXCLUSIVE BLEND OF SIX LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES: S. THERMOPHILUS, L. BULGARICUS, L. ACIDOPHILUS, BIFIDUS, L. CASEI, AND L. RHAMNOSUS.

In yogurt, try to keep the carbs below 15 grams, which really means no fruit flavor. Add your own.

Get your sleep.

Ever notice that when you are tired you want to eat! Yeah your body is drained; your mind is in a fog. Spend about 30 minutes before bed and prepare your body and mind for rest. Take a warm shower or bath, treat your skin with oils, stretch the kinks out, make the bedroom cool and dark. Turn your clock’s face away from view. Add ambient noise like a fan. Go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time. GET 8 HOURS of sleep along with the 30 minutes you unwind with before bed.

Build some muscles.

Put on 5 to 10 pounds of lean muscle, it will rev up your resting metabolism. Your body will roughly burn an additional 100 calories, each and every day, and if you add aerobic activities like fast walking, dancing, you are burning extra calories and taking care of your heart.

Left weights, your body weight is all you really need, but every now and then add a few cans of soup, a big rock, or old fashioned weights. Lift light AND lift heavy. Once in a while lift really heavy. It is ok if you cannot lift the heavy weight but 1 or 2 times, that is building the muscle and eventually you will be lifting that heavy thing 15 times. Always go slow, keep the spine neutral and your core tight.