One of the secrets to keeping your weight off is to raise your metabolism. The aisles of your local drug store or stocked full of artificial ways to raise your metabolism, but these aren’t true lifestyle changes that last.
If you look at the list of 10 ways to raise your metabolism, you’ll see most of these are very simple. They are things you can do right now to positively impact your life as you continue with your weight loss program.
1. Make sure you eat enough calories: Just the act of digesting your food, allows your body to burn more calories
2. Do some kind of aerobic activity 4 to 5 times a week: By adding aerobic activity to your post par-tum exercise routine you will give your body the fire it needs to burn even more calories, even when watching tv.
3. Add strength training By replacing 10 pounds of fat with 10 pounds of muscle you allow your body to burn an extra 100 calories a day.
4. Drink green tea: Green tea has been studied and proven to help you burn more calories.
5. Spice up your food: By adding hot and spicy foods to your diet, you are allowing your bodies metabolism to rev up and burn more calories. Cayenne pepper can be used in a lot of recipes.
6. Increase your workout intensity: Your body burns more calories when you are active then when sitting at your desk.
7. Eat 6 small meals a day instead of 3: Your body burns more calories digesting food. Eating 6 smaller meal will keep your body from going into starvation mode, and stop you from binge eating.
8. Get enough sleep each day: Your body can not metabolize carbs properly with out enough sleep.
9. Drink plenty of water: Drinking cold water makes your body work harder to raise your body temperature. Studies show that if you drink 8 to 10 glasses of water a day you could lose up to10 pounds in a year.
10. Include clean protein to your diet: Your body burns more calories burning protein than sugar or carbs. Protein also helps your body to build more muscle, giving you the ability to burn even more calories.
Between diet and exercise you can raise your metabolism so you can burn lots of calories all day long, even at rest!