METABOLISM HELP... 'Here we go again', but please!

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Exercise, including walking, will do as much or more to repair your metabolism as more food will. Aerobic exercise can boost your metabolism for many hours after you stop. How long depends on how long and now intense you do it. Building muscle also increases your metabolism. Make sure you are staying hydrated. Your body needs water to process calories.

    Eating more often, eating more protein, drinking caffeine, and some other dietary changes can boost your metabolism as well. But these are all minimal compared to what a combination of aerobic exercise and strength training can do.

    Sorry, can't boost your metabolism if there is no calories for it to use. Just means other things the metabolism should be doing are left undone or slightly done to take care of those artificial stimulates.
  • DoozerDMB
    DoozerDMB Posts: 129 Member
    I have a friend who is a recovering anorexic. I know each day is a struggle to get the calories in for her. Her metabolism is all screwed up. She had to maintain a caloric intake of 1200 for two weeks to see how her body handled this. It was then increased by a hundred every week. She is 5'2" and currently 121 pounds. She is maintaining at 1800 calories a day spaced out into 6 mini meals and some snacks (probably how you are grazing).
    She does yoga daily, as she was told not to do any strenous/exertive exercising. She is now lifting weights to tone up her muscles and to kick up her metabolism.
    The body image she fights daily and when ED starts to tell her cut back on food/calories she has to forcefully tell it to shut up!
    The metabolism takes a few weeks of proper eating/caring for it to come back "online" properly.
  • aejones02
    aejones02 Posts: 15
    I honestly think the best thing you can do for yourself is get a therapist who deals with this sort of thing. Also, your depression will affect your metabolism. That is awesome the strides you are making. You need someone to help you deal with the underlying issue. You will never be healthy physically, if you aren't healthy mentally. I also mean all this with the upmost respect. My sister has suffered with an eating disorder and even though she is healthy she still sees her therapist so she doesn't relapse.

    Please read my past posts - I do see therapist and psychiatrist and GP but they won't help with this. Focusing on psychological issues not practical - i.e. metabolism.

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