Burning calories – Some simple ways
Jun 30, 2008
There are many habits that you can adopt to keep your body metabolism high. High metabolism means burning more calories and thus achieving a faster and easier weight loss. There have been instances where people have lost weight by slightly changing their daily habits, like taking few kilometers of walk or switching to diet soda.
Here are some simple habits that can help you immensely in your war against weight.
Move as much as possible
Each movement of the body results in burning calories and thus making simple body movements a habit contributes in a big way in burning calories. Tapping feet, swinging your legs, doing simple neck and stretching exercises, changing positions and postures, using restrooms in a different floor, parking in the farthest corner, while talking on the phone standing up and moving from side to side, pacing up and down, clenching and releasing your muscles etc. are some very easy to adopt routines that can fetch you great results. At the end of the day, make sure to use every possible opportunity to move, as it is a proven fact that an active person losses about 50% more calories than an inactive person.
Eat lesser but often
Metabolism burns more energy if smaller and frequent meals are taken instead of larger meals taken with longer time gaps. The digestion process requires energy usage and frequent meals would mean continuity of the process and thus more energy consumption.
Eating good fat
Eating ‘healthy’ fats help you augment your body’s calorie burning capabilities. Incorporating fats like flaxseed oil, hempseed oil, olive oil, avocados, salmon, albacore tuna, nuts and seeds etc in your meals do a great deal in enhancing your body capability to burn calories. These fats are a must for our bodies to work efficiently besides being good to eat.
Drink water as cold as possible
Your body requires certain level of temperature to be maintained. If you consume cold water instead of any hot beverage, your body would use more calories to raise the cold water to match your body temperature, thus burning those extra calories.
Exercise with weights
Exercising with weight tones up muscle tissues that are metabolically active even when the body is resting. The amount of calories burned by these active muscle tissues can make a huge difference in the long run.
Use spices
Metabolism is affected enormously by eating many of the hot spices. Cinnamon for example is very effective in keeping the blood sugar under check and increases metabolism. Cayenne, crushed red pepper or wasabi are other spices that are good for this purpose.
Eat more proteins
Consuming more protein requires more calories to digest the same, as protein digestion is a complex chemical process. As proteins prolong digestion time, it keeps the tummy full for a longer period and does not instigate you to eat further. In the process it also keeps your blood sugar under check. Hence it is a great idea to include more of protein in your meals.
Aren’t these very simple things yet contributing in a big way to lift your metabolism and burn more calories?
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