Weight Loss – Speed Up Your Metabolism

Copyright 2006 Eva Moffat
Recently a young man asked me about losing weight His question
was, as he has quite a lot of weight to lose he wanted to lose
it really quickly as in 20 Kgs per month I advised against this
To lose this weight, he’d have to speed up his Metabolism But
like most people, he was under the impression that to lose
weight, he would have to starve himself In other words, eating
less = less calories eaten Therefore eating less must make him
lose pounds and inches ·
This is Myth Number 1
It is better to eat smaller meals more often, say every two to
three hours, rather than eating two to three big meals a day
You know how babies are usually ‘Demand Fed’ meaning instead of
being fed by the clock, they are fed when they are hungry If
you have ever tried to feed a newborn baby when it’s not ready,
you will know what I mean It just isn’t interested
So what happens? In time the baby’s body adjusts to three meals
a day and it is then considered ‘normal’ But as adults it would
be better to go back to ‘Demand Feeding’
Why is this?
What Is This Metabolism?
Metabolism is the breaking down of the food we eat into energy
You will probably have heard about counting calories, calories
are units of energy So eating more calories per small meal will
produce more energy More energy will burn more fat
Burn fat and you lose pounds and inches
The more often you eat the quicker your Metabolism ·
This is Myth Number 2
Eating less will make you lose weight Wrong again
Why is this?
Eating Less Makes You Lose Muscle What happens is your body is
receiving less food So it thinks to itself ‘there’s
going to be a famine so I must store whatever food I’m receiving
as fat’ Fat can be changed into ‘Energy’ but will only be
stored for emergency use Meanwhile, your muscles will be
depleted This means they will lose their tone and become soft
and flabby
Bearing in mind, your heart is a muscle; you don’t want your
heart going soft and flabby, do you? It could cause all sorts of
problems
So the answer is if you want to lose weight, better than
starving yourself, it would be better to have smaller but more
frequent meals

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