| Metabolism — Perhaps the most frequently used word when it comes to weight loss and weight gain.
Even though most diets fail, yet we continue to try one after another, always hoping that the new regime will endow with the ‘magic’ solution.
It’s quite common to hear people discussing their experiences when dieting. So many of them struggle to boost the fat loss process to end up discovering that their metabolism is working in a different way then they thought it would.
Moreover, over and over doctors refer to metabolism when they try to explain why starvation and water-loss diets aren’t helpful due to independent biological mechanism that manages energy expenditure in every minute of our life.
Sadly, this simple fact is often overlooked… and metabolism (there’s that word again!) isn’t taken into account as it should be.
Well, since the word used so often, you’d comfortably assume that people understand what it is and how it works, right?
Or, at least, they have some fundamental knowledge when it comes to how to boost their metabolism, right?
Wrong!
The sad fact is that people simply don’t understand the concept: they don’t know much about the mechanism of metabolism and metabolic change. Therefore it’s isn’t surprising that they unfortunately fail.
Often information overload is another thing that leads to even more confusion and conflicting messages about this important issue.
The messages floating out there, like a “friend of a friend who has a personal trainer” do not help either.
Additionally, often people mistake their own weight gain and weightloss episodes as a matter of metabolic change that apparently sometimes is true, and sometimes it isn’t.
However, as we will discuss further, there are scientifically proven ways to boost the rate of metabolic change, and help the body easily shed pounds when more calories are burned.
Our metabolic rate determines the rate at which we ‘burn up’ our food, and by increasing this rate, we can lose weight more quickly, easily, and safely.
Let’s look at why most diets fail, and how strength training, combined with a healthy food intake can boost your metabolism, making it easy for you to lose unwanted weight.
Controlling the foods we eat and focusing on eating of only certain foods, frequently is one way to achieve the desired change.
Another way to visibly lose weight — at least on a perceived, temporary level — is a steam room. Sitting for a few hours in steam room can help you lose some excessive weight.
When we diet, by decreasing our calorie intake too drastically, we cause our metabolism to slow down, making it progressively more difficult for us to lose weight.
Although eating the right foods is a proven method to lose weight fast through increased metabolic change, the second method, the steam room, is just temporary way to “melt fat away”. The truth is, the lost weight is merely water, and it will return as quickly as it was gone.
As you can see from the steam room example, weight loss in not always related to metabolic change as some people mistakenly assume and there is point link them together. |