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People are quick to blame a slow metabolism for weight gain but not all people become overweight because of this. Many just eat too much and do too little physical activity.
Yet a boost to the metabolic rate (the rate the body burns fuel) is obviously of interest to those who wish to lose weight as the higher the metabolic rate the more fuel (calories) is burned per hour. The main factor that influences the metabolism is the amount of lean muscle tissue we have on our body. If we do not exercise our muscles become weak and flabby and use less fuel as they simply do not need it. Muscle cells are where glucose from the blood is burnt for energy and if the cells cannot burn it up it gets stored as body fat and we become overweight. Many people believe that just by going on a diet it will fix up the problem but if your body is burning less fuel than it should be you will virtually be dieting for the rest of your life. As you get older the situation will become worse as you will be losing more and more muscle which means you will end up with your fat burning machinery in a very poor state of health. A better idea is to rebuild lost muscle and tone up what is still already there. There is only one way to do this and that is with a strength training program. You need to directly work your muscles through their ranges of movement under a load. Recreational activities that involve low intensity repetitive movement will not do the job. They may burn some calories at the time but do little to nothing to tone up your muscles which are the engine room of your metabolism and your fat burning capacity. To support your proper exercise program you need energy so you can put the necessary effort into it to make the changes you need to make to your body. Your eating plan needs to center around natural whole foods that are not processed. This means they mostly do not come in a pretty box, packet, or tin or from the frozen section of the supermarket. They do not even have a food label as they have not been mucked around with by man. Things like quality beef, chicken and fish, vegetables and fruits cooked from scratch. These are the foods that will boost your metabolism and turn off the hunger signals that can make you overeat and cause ongoing weight gain. Processed foods will make your job at weight loss almost impossible as the chemicals and fake sugars and fats confuse our delicate hormones that control our appetite control system. When you work to get rid of as many as possible of these foods you will find the task of losing weight so much easier. This is something that is not going to happen overnight and it will take some time and effort to replace them. But it will be well worth the effort when you start to see your svelte slim body start to show itself again.
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