How Do I Increase My Metabolism Quickly?

Author: Terje Ellingsen

Article source: http://www.11-weight-loss.net/. Used with author's permission.

I know I can increase it but how can I increase my metabolism quickly? This is a question many dieters and people on weight loss have asked. Burning fat fast seems to be more important than long termed fat loss. What you must understand is that you can start to burn your body fat fast but you can't loose all your excess fat over night. What is metabolism actually? Metabolism is the process our bodies use to burn the calories from the food that we eat.

It is scientifically proven that as we grow older our metabolism will slow down incrementally. To be more precise, this deceleration starts between our 20th and 40th year of life. The sad thing is that we are by nature programmed to gain body fat while losing lean body mass. For example, if you are a young man, age 25, the metabolism slows down approximately 5 percent per decade. As a matter of fact, we can't control ageing but we can do several things to speed up our metabolism all the rest of our lives. Below I will go through three of the most important ones:

The more you Increase your muscle mass the more your metabolism will increase

Your lean body mass is by far the most important factor of metabolism. Muscle burns up to 90% more calories than fat. For example, if you add three to five pounds of muscle and you could burn 100 - 250 additional calories per day. If you perform weight or resistance training as little as 2-3 times a week. Weight lifting can be anything from carrying your groceries home to training with weights at a Fitness Center.

Keep yourself in motion regularly

After regular exercise such as walking, biking and swimming your metabolism rate will increase not only during the activity but for several hours after. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator is a great and natural way to embody exercise in your daily life. Even house cleaning or cutting the lawn can increase your fat burning rate.

Eat, eat and eat - don't ever skip a meal

If you try to lose weight by skipping meals or not eat at all, your metabolism will decrease which is the opposite of losing fat. What the body does when it goes into 'starvation mode' is compensate for the low calorie intake by decreasing the metabolic rate. Instead of burning fat it will burn lean muscles. So whatever weight loss program you follow eat all your meals and don't drop your calorie intake under 1000 per day.

Start with these three ways to increase your body's fat burning process. There are many additional ways that you can add later. To get a flying start however, following these three tips will do the job.