Follow These Five Tips To Drop A Dress (or Pant Size)

No one needs to tell you that your metabolism slows with age.  You are the best judge of your metabolism, and if it is slowing or not.  You see the results of a slowing metabolism by looking in the mirror or putting on a pair of pants from a year ago.

Fact is, as you age you have to WORK HARDER at keeping your METABOLISM FIRING.  But there are secrets and shortcuts to keeping your metabolism strong and vibrant.  If you have noticed your metabolism is a little sluggish, don’t be alarmed!  You can reverse it!

Incorporate these five tips TODAY for a healthy and strong metabolism.
1. Vary The Exercise Intensity
Exercise and strength training combined may lead to extra calorie burn.  But if you are short on time, pack in a power workout and you will be burning calories for a much longer period.  Varying the intensity of your workouts can lead to burning calories POST EXERCISE.

Working out at higher intensities makes your body use more nutrients, like oxygen and sugar, to fuel the workout.  When you are done, you have to “payback” the environment of the oxygen you borrowed from it.
This post exercise oxygen payback results in more calories burned after the workout, and beyond.

Calorie burning after a high intensity workout can last
anywhere between 1 to 3 days

2. Boost Your Metabolism In The Morning
Nothing slows your metabolism during the day like skipping the most important meal.  BREAKFAST!
Breakfast can give you the jump start by providing essential nutrients you need to wake your body up and get it moving.  Try something small and nutritious to get you going in the morning, like Greek yogurt or oatmeal.

3. Increase Lean Mass To Burn More Calories
Just like high intensity exercise may help burn extra calories, so does strength training.  Strength training helps build muscle tissue which helps you keep calorie burning-tissue on your body.

 

Muscle uses more energy to keep it active

Even though fat tissue is metabolically active, muscle tissue is metabolism boosting, so it creates more of a calorie burn.  So, keep lifting your weights to BUILD LEAN MASS which may keep you slim and trim.

4. Include Protein With Your Meals
Protein does two things in your body: supplies amino acids which are perfect for MUSCLE BUILDING, and helps you expend more calories digesting protein than any other nutrient.  

First, amino acids are the building blocks of muscle.  By including protein in your diet, you are creating an environment where you are able to use the amino acids, possibly leading to future muscle growth.

Secondly, your body burns extra calories from the thermic effect of food.

 

It takes more energy to burn protein, resulting
in more calories burned

Your body works harder to burn protein than it does carbohydrates or FAT.  So include protein with every meal to keep your metabolism firing.  

5. Drink Tea Or Coffee

Tea and coffee have healthy doses of caffeine.  And that caffeine may help you burn extra calories.  Caffeine acts as a stimulant in your body, putting your central nervous system on alert.

Stimulating your central nervous system results in
increase thermogenesis and fat burning

And tea seems to work even BETTER at burning calories than coffee.  The reason: catechins, which are strong antioxidants, may increase thermogenesis and fat oxidation better than coffee alone.  So enjoy your cup of green tea in the morning!

Keep Your Metabolism Firing
These five steps are PROVEN to burn more calories.  Having more muscle may lead to higher energy demands keeping MORE METABOLISM-BOOSTING tissue on your body.  Stimulating the right system may also increase fat oxidation and may be accomplished in one simple step: incorporate a glass of tea or coffee to your morning breakfast meal.  Make breakfast full of calorie-burning protein and a healthy dose of good fats and fiber.

By using these five steps, you may possibly reverse the effects of age on your metabolism.