metabolism

lisa28115
lisa28115 Posts: 17,271 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
how do you speed up your metabolism ??

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  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    Eat more and do it consistently.
    Looking at your diary it looks like you already eat more.

    How tall are you and whats your body fat%?
  • lisa28115
    lisa28115 Posts: 17,271 Member
    Eat more and do it consistently.
    Looking at your diary it looks like you already eat more.

    How tall are you and whats your body fat%?

    height 5' 1"

    51%
  • Aineko
    Aineko Posts: 163
    how do you speed up your metabolism ??
    short of genetic engineering I can only think of exercise and muscle gain. :)
  • lisa28115
    lisa28115 Posts: 17,271 Member
    how do you speed up your metabolism ??
    short of genetic engineering I can only think of exercise and muscle gain. :)

    I am doing 1 hour of water aerobics 2x a week and I am starting the SL 5x5 3x a week tomorrow
    just got my own barbells..yay!!!
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    how do you speed up your metabolism ??
    short of genetic engineering I can only think of exercise and muscle gain. :)

    I am doing 1 hour of water aerobics 2x a week and I am starting the SL 5x5 3x a week tomorrow
    just got my own barbells..yay!!!
    Weight training is about the best thing you can do :) Push hard through your workouts and you'll get there.
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    how do you speed up your metabolism ??

    - Eat enough (research BMR, TDEE, RMR). Lots of proof out there showing the less you eat the more your metabolism lowers.
    - For your fats, eat mono and poly unsaturated fats (there's 2 words that are often used for this, I forget them, google knows I'm sure)
    - make sure you're getting all the vitamins/minerals/macronutrients/micronutrtients you need.
    - Don't overdose yourself on crap like salt, and other processed food that leads to water weight
    - eat enough fiber (research the different kinds for dieting ie fermentable fiber)
    - as for macronutrients, I have no idea what the right ratios are. Everyone has backed up proof for a million different ones. So my theory is to believe noone.
    - resistance training. The more muscle you have, the more calories you'll burn in the run of a day (lots of links on this as well).

    And here's a lil Metabolism talk:

    "...After 6 weeks the patient's resting metabolism increased 35% to 1282 Calories per day (only 2% below predicted). The patient also decreases percent fat from 37% to 34%, a loss of 5 lbs of body fat...."
    http://www.exrx.net/Questions/StarvationEffect.html

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