Boosting your Metabolism Help!

shining_light

I lift heavy and eat a ton, and the weight has stayed stable. It's crazy. As soon as I started weight training, my weight loss was easily maintained. "Dieting" even at 1470 a day(my supposed BMR) gave me a huge weight loss plateau, so I stopped doing cardio and started lifting heavy. Also, I eat a ton of protein. I eat a high-protein, high-fat diet, and I highly recommend it. I had about 180 g of protein today.

Also, in response to the commenter who mentioned how much muscle burns at rest, while that is true that it's not much, the calorie expenditure your body puts out repairing muscle tissue after a workout is fairly significant over a long period of time. I looked up several studies on it and was quite surprised.

rettigkl

My best advice is to buy the "Master Your Metabolism" book by Jillian Michaels. She has written some amazing stuff in the book that has completely opened my mind to why weight loss is the way it is and how to get the metabolism moving. Some key things that stuck out to me:

"Remove"- unhealthy food, obviously. Try to keep to smaller portion sizes.

"Restore"- eat whole foods. If it doesn't have a mother and doesn't grow from the ground- don't eat it. In other words, Cheetos do not grow from the ground and do not have a mother, so they are processed and something our hormones have to interpret like a foreign language.

"Rebalance"- Try to get a full 8 hours of sleep a night, eat every four hours and not after nine.

Go organic because all of the extra chemicals put onto packaging really screws up the hormones in our metabolism.
Avoid HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP at all costs. Anything that ends in -ose should be read as "poison".

"Studies have shown that people who eat the most fiber, lose the most amount of weight." (136).

Best power nutrient foods:
red beans, garlic, berries, Alaskan wild salmon (meat & eggs), tomatoes- even in the form of ketchup, broccoli, spinach, almonds and walnuts, organic low-fat plain yogurt, oats and barley.

"When buying a processed whole grain product, look at the ingredients- the whole grain should be the first one listed." (145).

Just a couple things I pulled out; feel free to maybe google some book reviews? I'm loving it so far and the best of luck to you!

taso42

The following things boost metabolism:
Food
Exercise

SanteMulberry

I lift heavy and eat a ton, and the weight has stayed stable. It's crazy. As soon as I started weight training, my weight loss was easily maintained. "Dieting" even at 1470 a day(my supposed BMR) gave me a huge weight loss plateau, so I stopped doing cardio and started lifting heavy. Also, I eat a ton of protein. I eat a high-protein, high-fat diet, and I highly recommend it. I had about 180 g of protein today.

Also, in response to the commenter who mentioned how much muscle burns at rest, while that is true that it's not much, the calorie expenditure your body puts out repairing muscle tissue after a workout is fairly significant over a long period of time. I looked up several studies on it and was quite surprised.

^^^THIS^^^

SanteMulberry

The following things boost metabolism:
Food
Exercise

^^^And this too!^^^

SanteMulberry

My best advice is to buy the "Master Your Metabolism" book by Jillian Michaels. She has written some amazing stuff in the book that has completely opened my mind to why weight loss is the way it is and how to get the metabolism moving. Some key things that stuck out to me:

"Remove"- unhealthy food, obviously. Try to keep to smaller portion sizes.

"Restore"- eat whole foods. If it doesn't have a mother and doesn't grow from the ground- don't eat it. In other words, Cheetos do not grow from the ground and do not have a mother, so they are processed and something our hormones have to interpret like a foreign language.

"Rebalance"- Try to get a full 8 hours of sleep a night, eat every four hours and not after nine.

Go organic because all of the extra chemicals put onto packaging really screws up the hormones in our metabolism.
Avoid HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP at all costs. Anything that ends in -ose should be read as "poison".

"Studies have shown that people who eat the most fiber, lose the most amount of weight." (136).

Best power nutrient foods:
red beans, garlic, berries, Alaskan wild salmon (meat & eggs), tomatoes- even in the form of ketchup, broccoli, spinach, almonds and walnuts, organic low-fat plain yogurt, oats and barley.

"When buying a processed whole grain product, look at the ingredients- the whole grain should be the first one listed." (145).

Just a couple things I pulled out; feel free to maybe google some book reviews? I'm loving it so far and the best of luck to you!

^^^AND THIS TOO^^^ Love your body---life is too short to mistreat it---it is the temple of your soul and spirit.


p.s. Have you ever seen the video where they set fire to a Cheeto? Hilarious. I have a friend who uses them as fire starters. :laugh:

cindys0417

Thanks everyone! Great tips! :flowerforyou:

spark7good

eat within the first 30mins of waking up and eat every 2-3 hrs and stop eatting 2-3 hrs before bed

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

eat within the first 30mins of waking up and eat every 2-3 hrs and stop eatting 2-3 hrs before bed

This is just a myth. It doesn't matter when you eat in terms of metabolism.

SeahorseDolphin

eat within the first 30mins of waking up and eat every 2-3 hrs and stop eatting 2-3 hrs before bed

This is just a myth. It doesn't matter when you eat in terms of metabolism.

yupp definitely debunked. Not eating after a certain time will help reduce nightime snacking but your body does not care when you get your calories.