Your Metabolism for Healthy Weight Loss

Do you know someone who is on diet and get into better shape? then you already heard the sentence such us, “I only eat one meal a day” or “I don’t want to eat because I’m afraid to gain much weight”. This misbelieve is the reason so many people struggles to lose weight. All over the world people always says that eating three times a day or eating breakfast will make them fat. Well in fact the truth is as long as they’re eating the right types of foods and exercising correctly, then three meals or six small meals will work better with metabolism than eating the wrong amount or not eating at all. These couples of years people are gaining weight at rapid rate, we should need to understand how metabolism works related on losing weight. Why risk having a heart attack, a stroke, cancer, or diabetes when all you need to do is make a few tweaks and live a healthy life?

First, the metabolic rate of a person is defined by the amount and structures of respiring cells that compose the body’s tissue and second the intensity of the metabolism in these cells. Calories or the physiological foundation of the amount of energy are the results of combining these two factors, which our body uses. We all know that energy is cannot be created or destroyed just change. Energy comes from the foods we eat.

If you are talking about weight loss, remember the three components of energy:

1. Calories Intake
2. Calories Stored
3. Calories Burned

If your calories intake is equal to your calories burned then you will have a stable body weight. When you eat more food than being burned the energy on the food is destroyed and being stored on body and called fats. You are still gaining weight even eating a low-fat food. The main reason is that dietary fat is stored while our body is burning carbohydrates and proteins for energy. The problem is that when a person gains weight, the increased level of fat becomes stored energy until the calorie balance is negative. Burning a lot of amount of calories than what we consumed is what we need to release the stored fats.

Metabolism composed of three parts which our body needs energy to support the functions to sustained life.
1. Physical Activity (20%)
2. TEF – Thermic Effect of Food (10%)
3. RMR - Resting Metabolism Rate (70%)

Physical Activity: It is the quantity or amount of energy being burn during our daily activities such as housework, work, exercise, recreation and so forth. It’s obvious that someone who is very active physically will burn much energy than a regular person will.

TEF - Thermic Effect of Food involves on how energy was being use on digesting and absorbing nutrients which vary on what kind of meal are being eaten by a person. TEF increases when a person eats a lot of foods than what we normally eat because more food must be digested. As a result our metabolism will be confused. 1 pound is equal to 3,500 calories. Let’s say a person consumes more than 3,500 of calories. Well that person will not gain one pound because the TEF is accounted to that but if a person is going to cut off 3,500 calories to lose weight that person’s TEF may decrease for a reason that he’s no longer receiving a lot of nutrients to process. And as a result to that person’s energy expenditure will decrease and making him lose less than one pound of his weight. So in other words TEF can’t work properly when a person is cutting off too much food. Just bear in mind not to eat a lot of junk foods. Make sure all the calories you’d consume are not that big for you to fight weight gain. It also doesn’t mean that you must stop eating because in that way you are not helping yourself, instead you’re pushing it to the point that your body can no longer help you in fighting weight gain.

RMR - The number count of calories that the body needs to run its vital functions as well as chemical reaction at rested pace is called Resting Metabolism Rate. This section of metabolism handles the large amount of calories that being burned every day. RMR decreases when increase in protein metabolism happens and you loss lean weight because of it. People on a strict diet usually do this. What really happens is when our body releases a negative nitrogen balance our body continue to loss a huge amount of protein than what we take or replace. When you loss protein there is a continuous loss of weight. In order to maintain muscle growth dieters usually they protein o maintain their muscles. Our body if forced to use more energy on our stored body fats.

Make your metabolism you’re for you, here are some heath tips for healthy diet:

• Add lean muscles to your body this will increased your metabolic rate up to 200% daily.
• Lean weight can burn as much as 20 times more calories than fat weight.
• Exercise is the best way to speed up your metabolism
• Eat small meals or 6 meals a day can boost your metabolism rate. While eating healthy foods, researcher proves that body fat attributed a lot on a person’s weight.

Always put in mind that excess in body fat can lead us to many health threat and diseases. Always check your BMI (Body Mass Index) as well as your body fat. Watch over your body fat while exercising, we always thought that we lost body fat while doing that but most dieters failed to do that, they only lost lean weight or muscles. The best way to do this is to add weight training to your exercise. You are the one who own your body so take responsible and make good decision to it. This is the time to live a healthy lifestyle.

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