Slow Metabolism and Weight Gain this is how to boost metabolism naturally
This page is about metabolism and weight gain.
The lower your metabolic rate, the more likely you are to gain fat.
It is essential to eat correctly. We explain how to do that below.
It's best if you also exercise correctly.
We recommend doing strength training for 30 or 40 minutes twice weekly and 2 or 3 brief sessions of intense cardio weekly. Both will increase lean muscle, which is your metabolic furnace.
That's less than two hours of exercise weekly. Thirty or sixty minutes of mild cardio once a week is optional, but it's also a good idea.
You will find the page links to the free food and exercise plans and programs awaiting you at the bottom of this page.
These tried and tested methods are extremely effective at promoting lasting fat loss.
If you are not already using them, what’s the easiest way to begin using them?
On this website we provide you with all the free programs and information that you will need. If you have not read the other pages on metabolism for weight loss, please do so. You will find the links to them awaiting you at the bottom of this page.
Improving your environment
Realize the following important fact: those of us who live in developed countries today do not live in an environment that helps us to boost our metabolism and achieve lasting weight loss. Everything seems to conspire against us, which is why at least two-thirds of us are too fat.
Therefore, since you are concerned about metabolism and weight gain, it is wise to improve your environment.
Improving your personal environment will make a critical difference over time in improving your odds of achieving lasting weight loss and reversing the relationship between your metabolism and weight gain.
How?
It’s simple: increase your associations with people who have the right habits and decrease your associations with people who don’t.
Here are some specific examples of what we recommend.
A. People who eat well and exercise well keep educating themselves about flourishing physically. They understand, for example, that eating sugar and refined (processed) carbohydrates causes a constellation of physical and emotional problems.
They read frequently about nutrition and exercise.
Because they deliberately replace bad ideas about metabolism and weight gain with good ones, they predispose themselves to trying those good ideas.
Improving your habits
If you regularly expose yourself to ideas for improving life, won't you eventually try some? Won't some actually work?
People who read about nutrition should soon naturally find themselves avoiding eating, for example, (caloric or noncaloric) sweeteners, sugars, cakes, cookies/biscuits, pasta, pizza, burgers, hot dogs, potato chips/crisps, corn chips, bread, bagels, rolls, wraps, crackers, cereals, regular soft drinks, sodas, diet sodas, donuts, pastries, pretzels, candies/toffees/sweets, ice cream, chocolates, sweet rolls, pancakes, waffles, fruit-juice blends, sweetened drinks, most salad dressings, catsup, cocktail sauce, tomato sauce, frozen dinners, and so on and on.
B. What’s the best way to avoid such temptations?
Don’t be around them! Out of sight, out of mind. For example, don’t allow refined (processed) foods in your own kitchen.
If only it were that simple! From Broadway in New York to Main Street in any small town, what do you see?
Pizza joints, bagel shops, hot dog stands, candy stores, delis, ice cream parlors, fast-food hamburger restaurants, movie theaters, malls, gas stations, ballparks, street fairs, grocery stories, pharmacies, office building and school vending machines, and even hospital gift shops all selling refined (processed) carbohydrates!
Our social environment reinforces a poor relationship between metabolism and weight gain.
However, some people don’t give in to all that temptation. Some people don’t eat impulsively. Some people plan all their meals carefully. Some people take the trouble to eat naturally. Associate with those kinds of people.
On this free website we provide all the information that will enable you to do the same. If necessary, improve your reading habits and associations. If you do, you won’t feel so overwhelmed.
Those dangerous foods
C. Cheap refined processed carbohydrates are easy to purchase and consume. That kind of food loaded with bad fats, salt, and especially sugar. Cheap refined food is killing us.
Focus on eliminating refined processed carbohydrates most days of the week.
If you are unsure what refined processed carbohydrates are, you will find the page link, to a list, awaiting you at the bottom of this page.
In the last 200 years, according to nutritionist Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman, sugar consumption has risen more than 1500%! Our bodies haven’t had time to adapt, and this nutrient-poor load of calories is causing very serious physical and emotional problems.
Stephen T. Sinatra is a board-certified cardiologist, certified nutrition specialist, and antiaging specialist. He writes, “The majority of both conventional and alternative doctors now believe that chronic silent inflammation is the root cause of disease—whether it’s cancer, coronary artery disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes.”
What’s the most important cause of silent inflammation? “The hormone insulin is at the top of the list. What releases insulin? Sugar. Surges of sugar trigger surges of insulin” [from Connie Bennett and Stephen T. Sinatra, Sugar Shock!, p. 22].
It seems, then, that the most important step you could take to increase your chances of being healthier would be to eliminate all sugars and other refined carbohydrates from your diet most days of the week.
That may also be the single most important step you could take to achieve lasting weight loss.
It isn’t easy, but you can do it.
If you are a sugar addict, sugar addiction is an addiction you can break. It’s easier to break it if you hang around people who are not addicts, too.
To reverse metabolism and weight gain, switch your body from burning sugar to burning fat. Restricting carb intake most days of the week will do that.
D. Give yourself a weekly break. Have a cheat day once a week.
On cheat day, eat one or two meals in which your consume (high glycemic index) carbohydrates and fats together as well as plenty of calories and, as always, protein.
Why?
Especially if you also restrict calories, after about six days of restricting carbohydrates the level of the hormone leptin in your body will decrease to about half its normal level. This signals to your body that you are starving to death and, in response, your metabolic rate will slow and so will fat burning.
The way to combat this and keep fat burning is to have a cheat day. However, even on cheat day, please don't keep eating until you feel stuffed! Always stop eating as soon as hunger disappears.
Ensure that, if you are female, you get at least 2100 calories on cheat day and, if you are male, 2300 calories. Again, you only need one cheat day weekly.
With respect to metabolism and weight gain, leptin and insulin are the key hormones. They rise and fall together. So, if you are diabetic, having an insulin spike (along with a leptin spike) is dangerous, so, as always, consult with your personal physician before making significant changes to either your dietary or exercise habits. Adding a cheat day is a significant change.
E. Never skip a meal. Eat a meal every 3 or 4 waking hours and ensure that it is centered around a natural source of protein.
This will prevent hunger and minimize food cravings. Natural soureces of protein come with plenty of good fats. If, as we recommend, on most days you are keeping your grams of carbs to 25 or fewer, there's no need for you to worry about consuming plenty of fats from natural sources; they won't make you fat.
F. Ensure that you are well-hydrated. Never drink less than 2 quarts of water daily. Drink at least 3 or 4 on days that you exercise hard or do sustained physical labor.
This will help your body process the protein and help to minimize hunger.
G. Even if you hate exercise, can you talk yourself into going for a brisk walk for 30 to 60 minutes several times a week? Doing that will burn fat during the walk and really make a difference over time.
If you enjoy exercise or are willing to do it, skip the mild fitness exercise (except for once a week if you like) and instead do a whole body strength training workout for 30 or 40 minutes twice weekly and 2 (or, better, 3) brief sessions of intense fitness exercise such as GXP or HIIT.
This is less than 2 hours of exercise weekly. The really good news is that it will burn fat for up to 40 hours after each exercise session!
Why? Both strength training and intense fitness exercise will increase your lean muscle, which is many times more active metabolically than fat.
If you will do them regularly, you'll switch from metabolism and weight gain to metabolism and weight loss. For every 1 1/2 to 2 pounds of weight you lose, you'll be losing 1 pound of fat.
H. Get plenty of sleep. If you are frequently walking around tired, one response your body will have is to gain fat.
I. Make it as easy on yourself as possible to follow tips A through H by using the psychological and spiritual aids here at lasting-weight-loss.com. They really can make the difference.
Instead of feeling as if you were fighting a war totally alone, you'll begin to feel good about showing other people how to take charge of their metabolism and weight gain.
This same method (A - I) works for all the natural, effective ways of increasing your metabolism.
If you’ll begin to think and start to behave like all those other people who are following dietary and exercise programs similar to the one promoted here at lasting-weight-loss, you’ll never be sorry.
Think of it this way: we all teach others all the time. What are you now teaching your loved ones about metabolism and weight gain?
What could you be teaching your loved ones about metabolism and weight gain by showing them how best to live?
Especially if you use all the other resources provided free here at this website, you’ll quickly be on your way to reversing your relation between metabolism and weight gain.
Other people need to learn from how. Won't you help them?
Make it happen!
Web pages related to metabolism and weight gain
To further your understanding of metabolism and weight gain and how to boost your metabolism, we recommend the following pages of our website:
In you would like suggestions for some in-depth reading, see our "best self-help books" page listed on the navigation/menu buttons.
Alternatively, here are our initial suggestions:
the Eades's Protein Power
Bennett & Sinatra's Sugar Shock!
Wily & Formby's Lights Out
Sears's Dr. Sears' High Speed Fat Loss in 7 Easy Steps
You should be able to borrow these books from your local library if you don’t want to buy them.
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