6 Easy Ways to Boost Your Metabolism
1. Add lemon juice to your water, studies have shown 500 milligrams of ascorbic acid (found in lemon juice) can increase your metabolism by 33%.
2. Incorporate interval training into your workout routine, according to the American College of Sports Medicine you can burn more calories by performing higher intensity activities for a shorter period of time rather than lower intensity activities over a longer duration. What this means is rather than jogging for 40 minutes you could sprint for 2 minutes followed by 2 minutes of speed walking for a 30 minute time period and still burn more calories. Please note that a specific program should be tailored for your own fitness level by a qualified professional.
3. Eat Breakfast, essentially when you wake your taking your body out of an 8 hour or sometimes longer fast, by eating breakfast you jumpstart your system and enter an energy burning mode, while waiting too long to eat can trigger “starvation mode” and cause your body to store calories as fat. Make breakfast your largest meal of the day and try to eat within an hour of waking, its been proven over and over that people who lose weight are most successful at keeping it off when they eat breakfast.
4. Don’t cut too many calories, when you decreases your caloric intake to anywhere below 1200 calories you are more or less telling your body “I’m short on food” signalling it to store any extra calories as a fat reserve, always remember that we are still working with the body of caveman and this is the bodies natural response to starvation.
5. Eat foods that take more energy to digest, there are certain foods such as celery, cucumbers, zucchini, cauliflower, and cabbage (plus many more) that actually take more calories to digest than they actually contain, adding these foods to your meals not only beefs up the fibre to make you more full but actually creates a calorie deficit plus you are adding much needed vitamins and minerals to your diet.
6. Go in a sauna, research has shown that going in an infrared sauna can actually increase your metabolism by 20% throughout the rest of your day.
