5 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your Metabolism

#1 Eat your Breakfast

Don’t forget to eat your breakfast; this meal jump starts your metabolism and helps being tired at the end of the day. Don’t include coffee to it, sugar may suppress your hunger but at later part you will be surely hungry and you more likely eat a lot. Eating complex carbs like oatmeal with protein and fat (low fat milk or yogurt), will keep your energy high.

#2 Eat more often

Eat three to six small meals a day. Eating more often make your blood sugar stable, when your sugar count drops; there is a tendency that you want to eat a lot. You can control your appetite by always checking your blood sugar stable it can also make your metabolic rate high. When starving your body will preserved energy and thus hurting your weight loss efforts.

#3 Include proteins in your meal

Protein will help you suppress your appetite, it takes more energy and time to digest and the results is your feel full than eating carbs only. Eating protein foods will help you lose weight without even cutting calories. Foods that contain a large amount of protein: turkey on whole wheat; hummus and pita; vegetarian chili; fruit and nuts; or protein bars and protein shakes.

#4 Stop Eating snacks

Most of us eat snacks when we are hungry or feeling tired, this confusion of being tired and hungry allow us to eat snacks which is not necessary. If you’re feeling tired, try walking about 15-20 minutes, this will pump your heart rate and give you energy and drink a glass of water. If you are really hungry and you can’t hold yourself from eating, try to eat protein bars or complex carbs snacks, wheat crackers and peanut butter or cheese.

#5 Eat enough for your body’s needs

Eating not much or not eating at all slows down your metabolism, if you want to lose weight, do not cut off calories forcefully as a replacement cut out some extras like juice, soda, packaged goods, or candy. Preserved foods contains high fat and calories and very low in vitamins, fibers and minerals.

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