Metabolism is the chemical process that occur continuously inside your body. Your bodily functions like to breathe, think, digest, circulate blood, keep warm in the cold, and stay cool in the heat, rely on your metabolism.
Below are the ways to increase your metabolism:
As you grow older, maintaining body energy becomes very important because the body functionalities face many changes gradually. The major five ways that need to be intruded daily to increase your metabolism at the tender age are as follows.
Eat good quality proteins: Protein-rich foods, such as meat, fish, eggs, dairy, legumes, nuts and seeds, could help increase your metabolism for a few hours.
Do some ‘HIIT’: Well, the word 'HIIT' is High Intensity Interval Training. The reason why HIIT is so successful is that excess post-oxygen consumption, or EPOC (yes, another industry acronym!), is produced. After the training session, EPOC increases the resting metabolic rate for twenty-four hours or more. It makes your body a fat-burning machine. HIIT is the perfect way to condense the benefits of activity into 30 minutes or less, doing it every day, or longer than 30 minutes can put you at risk for injury, overtraining, mental burnout and prevent muscle recovery. Ideally 20 minutes should be more than enough provided done properly.
Shoeless Walk on Green Grass: Walking barefoot on grass helps strengthens your feet, ankles, cures chronic pains, inflammation, insomnia, improve nervous system, eye-sight, immune system, controls blood pressure, hormonal imbalance. At the same time it improves your posture, helps relieve anxiety, stress, depression, protects your body from electromagnetic fields, slows down aging and also helps in healing injuries faster. Walking barefoot is helpful to improve the mental and physical health.
Healthy Breakfast: Oats help in sustaining balanced weight and energy. Whereas milk and fruit give required calcium and proteins to the body cells for good mechanism. Some fruits such as strawberry, pears, kiwi, oranges, apple, and grapefruit are beneficial. Citrus fruits have properties to boost metabolism. Soak oats with yoghurt and for a oatmeal breakfast for the next day.
Greens & Grains: Green vegetables like spinach, broccoli, and capsicums possess a pack of essential vitamins and minerals to complete your diet. To preserve proteins and vitamins of green vegetable, cook it in low quantity of oil for 10-15 minutes only and sauté lightly rather than frying or overcooking to keep the nutrient intact. To intake whole rich of nutrients, prefer wholegrains. It really helps in putting on that extra fat and keeping in elongated energy.
Sipping Water: Don’t wait until you are thirsty. Infact being thirsty is a bad sign. So, keep a bottle on desk in your office or when at home if you are in the kitchen most of the time, keep it at a place which you access most of the time so that you remember to sip. During summer, add that rock salt or lemon for giving your body the electrolytes it needs. Carry a water bottle to be consumed during your travel. Consuming two liters of water every day helps in smooth functioning of inner organs. “Never procrastinate in drinking water.”
Early Sweet Dreams: Early to bed and early to rise makes you not only wise but healthy and since you get your sleep tonic very well, your brain is ready and energized to function at an optimum level. Remember that as you grow older, body must undergo 8 hours of sound sleep to add flicker to your skin and body as the renewal of cells happen at higher rate in the night. A good sleep makes the body feel more energized and prevents you from stressing.
Some simple home remedies for an effective metabolism and may help burn fat:
Lemon and honey with Warm Water: Drinking lemon honey mixed with warm water everyday early morning on an empty stomach is one of the best ways to cut down pounds of fat. As a substitute for morning coffee or tea.
Green Tea: Green tea is one of the healthiest beverages. You can have green tea at any time. Green tea is rich in antioxidants and nutrients, it also increases the body metabolism. It has poly phenol that helps in boosting fat oxidation and the rate of conversion of food consumed into calories. It reduces bad cholesterol in the blood.
Curry Leaves: Curry leaves are added in each of the Indian household curries, it not only flavors up the curries, but it has several health benefits. It helps in weight loss thus also helping to keep your metabolism intact.
Papaya: Good for weight loss and metabolism, papaya is a very well-known fruit with low fat, cholesterol free and low-calorie nature. It contains Vitamins, iron, calcium, riboflavin and few enzymes so you can say its an all-rounder fruit.
If our body digestive system is strong and excretory system functions properly then it becomes easy to shed the extra unwanted weight. It helps you burn fat. In fact, if you take it as a dinner replacement you may get results in few weeks only provided your rest of the day calories are balanced!
Thus, small lifestyle changes and incorporating these tips into your daily routine can increase your metabolism. A higher metabolism can help you lose weight and keep it off, keeping your energy levels high.
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