5 Tips to Speed Up Your Metabolism

Cranktastic

auroranflash

I appreciate your effort to be helpful, but much of this information has been proven to be false. Eat at a moderate calorie deficit and exercise regularly. It is really as simple as that.

Quoted For Truth!

NocturnalGirl

Here's a tip: Stop believing things you read in Women's magazines

Barbellerella

TLDR. Noticed a lot of false info in what I skimmed tho. I hope someone doesn't read through all this and think they can't lose weight if they don't eat breakfast and buy organic. How silly would that be .........

Thankful I know eat less than you burn is all it takes... :drinker:

76tech

TLDR. Noticed a lot of false info in what I skimmed tho. I hope someone doesn't read through all this and think they can't lose weight if they don't eat breakfast and buy organic. How silly would that be .........

Thankful I know eat less than you burn is all it takes... :drinker:

Surely you can't be serious

Zomoniac

Needs more amphetamines.

DontStopB_Leakin

5 ways to speed up your metabolism:

Step 1. Get new genetics.
Step 2. Stop worrying about your flippin' metabolism.
Step 3. Eat a deficit and exercise.


Oh look, I did it in three steps instead of 5. Yay me.

psuLemon

5 ways to speed up your metabolism:

Step 1. Get new genetics.
Step 2. Stop worrying about your flippin' metabolism.
Step 3. Eat a deficit and exercise.


Oh look, I did it in three steps instead of 5. Yay me.

Or eat at a surplus, heavy weight train and gain ew lean body mass.. the more lbm you have more muscle you burn.

Barbellerella

TLDR. Noticed a lot of false info in what I skimmed tho. I hope someone doesn't read through all this and think they can't lose weight if they don't eat breakfast and buy organic. How silly would that be .........

Thankful I know eat less than you burn is all it takes... :drinker:

Surely you can't be serious

Oh so sorry Dr. Oz, I totally forgot. One MUST ingest Raspberry Ketones for ANY of said rules to work properly, too. Duh!

Cliffslosinit

Why is this misinformation allowed on here.
It just hurts the lazy ones that don't do the research!!!

cad39too

My best metabolism advice?

Get EXCITED!

Put music on instead of tv, jump around in excitement, dance, think positive and be happy.

Does watching porn count?

It better!! :laugh:

DontStopB_Leakin

5 ways to speed up your metabolism:

Step 1. Get new genetics.
Step 2. Stop worrying about your flippin' metabolism.
Step 3. Eat a deficit and exercise.


Oh look, I did it in three steps instead of 5. Yay me.

Or eat at a surplus, heavy weight train and gain ew lean body mass.. the more lbm you have more muscle you burn.

Well of course.

Steps 1 and 2 were really the key. Step 3 is negotiable.

ironanimal

I like 'organic produce' being likened to a car's fuel source. I don't know about anyone else, but I usually add a couple of shots of Octane booster after a fill. That's like GMO, right?

sjohnny

Why can't dead threads stay dead? This one was happily decomposing for two months when some necromancer decided to reanimate it.

YaGigi

People, why are you so aggressive and negative?

Healthydiner65

I do not agree with this post!

lewcompton

1- breakfast has no impact on metabolism. It does not stop because you are sleeping.

Drinking cold water doesn't make that much of a difference. 10 or so calories a day are not what will make a difference long term.

Brew up some green tea: "It's the closest thing to a metabolism potion," says Tammy Lakatos Shames, R.D., author of Fire Up Your Metabolism: 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever....yea well why not trust someone that wrote a book with THAT title. To burn fat you have to eat less calories than you burn.....period.

Buy organic to help you metabolism???? Holy **** this is groundless.

Cardio do not help the metabolism and even HIIT is maybe not that great.....

1. Would you care to quote any source for your information? While metabolism is higher while sleeping than while you are watching T.V. (Dr. Robert Kleges, Memphis State University, Apr. 1992) it is higher after you have had breakfast and are engaged in the same activity you would have otherwise have done...
2. Drinking cold water as opposed to lukewarm increase the metabolism by simple mathematics... 1 mean calorie is the energy required to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade 1 kilocalorie or nutritionist's calorie is the amount of energy that must be used to raise one kilogram (one liter of water) one degree celsius... to raise two liters (2000 grams) of water from freezing 0 celsius to normal human body temperature or 37 will require 74 calories... or the equivalent of a medium sized apple or a large egg. Three liters of water will require 111 calories to raise the temperature sufficiently to pass through the body. Basic definitions of a calorie...
3. "The health effects of pesticides depend on the type of pesticide. Some, such as the organophosphates and carbamates, affect the nervous system. Others may irritate the skin or eyes. Some pesticides may be carcinogens. Others may affect the hormone or endocrine system in the body. EPA's human health risk assessments for many pesticides are available on the web."
Quote taken directly from the EPA website home page... Don't even get me started on sources for information beyond this they are too numerous...
4. Cardiovascular exercise and metabolic function is how calories are burnt in the first place!!! C6H12O6 + 6 O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O... Simple non-chemistry explanation... Sugar + Oxygen yields Carbon Dioxide (bad gas you exhale) + Water (waste water that gets removed from body through sweat or urine)... The energy released during the process is what gives us body heat and also is used to change ADP molecules into ATP molecules within our cells for the actual energy source within the cells of your body. Basic life science and chemistry taught in the seventh and eight grade... While increasing lean body mass will produce a body that can burn more calories than a leaner body the amount of calories used by the body over the course of a day will still be only proportionally larger. Studies also show that lower body mass corresponds with longevity, which is probably one of the reasons you are on here like the rest of us.

jofjltncb6

Why can't dead threads stay dead? This one was happily decomposing for two months when some necromancer decided to reanimate it.

I don't always play with dead things...


...but when I do...


...it's usually an MFP forum thread.

monty619

all of those tips are pretty debatable... yet i practically do all of them and have had great results.

beaches222

bump

Sarauk2sf

1- breakfast has no impact on metabolism. It does not stop because you are sleeping.

Drinking cold water doesn't make that much of a difference. 10 or so calories a day are not what will make a difference long term.

Brew up some green tea: "It's the closest thing to a metabolism potion," says Tammy Lakatos Shames, R.D., author of Fire Up Your Metabolism: 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever....yea well why not trust someone that wrote a book with THAT title. To burn fat you have to eat less calories than you burn.....period.

Buy organic to help you metabolism???? Holy **** this is groundless.

Cardio do not help the metabolism and even HIIT is maybe not that great.....

1. Would you care to quote any source for your information? While metabolism is higher while sleeping than while you are watching T.V. (Dr. Robert Kleges, Memphis State University, Apr. 1992) it is higher after you have had breakfast and are engaged in the same activity you would have otherwise have done...
2. Drinking cold water as opposed to lukewarm increase the metabolism by simple mathematics... 1 mean calorie is the energy required to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade 1 kilocalorie or nutritionist's calorie is the amount of energy that must be used to raise one kilogram (one liter of water) one degree celsius... to raise two liters (2000 grams) of water from freezing 0 celsius to normal human body temperature or 37 will require 74 calories... or the equivalent of a medium sized apple or a large egg. Three liters of water will require 111 calories to raise the temperature sufficiently to pass through the body. Basic definitions of a calorie...
3. "The health effects of pesticides depend on the type of pesticide. Some, such as the organophosphates and carbamates, affect the nervous system. Others may irritate the skin or eyes. Some pesticides may be carcinogens. Others may affect the hormone or endocrine system in the body. EPA's human health risk assessments for many pesticides are available on the web."
Quote taken directly from the EPA website home page... Don't even get me started on sources for information beyond this they are too numerous...
4. Cardiovascular exercise and metabolic function is how calories are burnt in the first place!!! C6H12O6 + 6 O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O... Simple non-chemistry explanation... Sugar + Oxygen yields Carbon Dioxide (bad gas you exhale) + Water (waste water that gets removed from body through sweat or urine)... The energy released during the process is what gives us body heat and also is used to change ADP molecules into ATP molecules within our cells for the actual energy source within the cells of your body. Basic life science and chemistry taught in the seventh and eight grade... While increasing lean body mass will produce a body that can burn more calories than a leaner body the amount of calories used by the body over the course of a day will still be only proportionally larger. Studies also show that lower body mass corresponds with longevity, which is probably one of the reasons you are on here like the rest of us.

1. eating itself has an impact on metabolism (TEF) - but it is irrelevant when you eat as you will still have the same TEF at the end of the day.

2. negligible impact - it is totally micromanaging the process

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16822824

Extract:
Drinking distilled water at room temperature did not increase energy expenditure. Cooling the water before drinking only stimulated a small thermogenic response, well below the theoretical energy cost of warming the water to body temperature. These results cast doubt on water as a thermogenic agent for the management of obesity.

3. your response does not address the impact on metabolism

4. Cardio uses energy, yes. So, if you use the definition of metabolism to mean TDEE - yes it does increase it - but any activity does.

Velum_cado

This reminds me of those "1 Crazy Tip of a Flat Belly!" ads I see on websites.

JuniperT

bump so I can read this when I have more time!