Six Week Body Makeover – Metabolism

by James Kim on August 1, 2009 · diet

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Learning how to control your metabolism is the key factor in losing weight. Regardless of your body type, increasing your metabolism will help burn calories at a faster rate. Metabolism is how fast your body converts calories (food) into energy.

Based on your customized blue print, the body makeover will determine what kinds of food work well with your body type. Knowing your body type and the foods that work well with your body will reprogram your metabolism so that it uses more of the food that you eat as energy, instead of food storage. Once your body’s metabolism increases, you will burn more food energy. This is good news as you will actually be able to eat MORE while still losing weight.

Genetics, age, daily activity, food consumption and your diet will determine how fast your body burns calories (metabolism). Some bodies will burn calories faster than others but you can still burn calories faster once you know the correct foods to eat.

If you have been overweight or heavy all of your life, genetics have been an important factor in your weight. However, even though genetics have caused you to be heavy, there are ways to increase your slow metabolism. Once you finish blue printing your body, you will learn what foods increase your metabolism. Specific foods and light exercise is your key to rapid weight loss.

Aging causes the metabolism to slow down. As children, our metabolism burned calories at a faster rate because we were active and because as a child, our metabolism were much higher. As adults, we tend to have sedentary lifestyles. The lack of activity and slower metabolisms as adults cause us to gain weight, even when we just stare at food!

Having an active lifestyle will increase your metabolism.. Inversely, people with sedentary lifestyles will have a difficult time burning calories as their bodies will think that it needs to store calories instead of burn energy.

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