Metabolic rate and your weight loss relation. No its not a dream its 100% REAL!
If you are lured by those promotional ads of fad diets to lose weight, you might soon become disillusioned. The quickest way to achieve success in losing weight and stay away from putting on weight is to boost your metabolism.
One of the fundamental truths about the matter of weight loss and metabolic rate is that you have very limited ability to change your basal metabolism. The only thing you can do is to increase your daily exercise and physical activity to burn calories and build muscle tissue.
Before you think of weight loss, think about why there is weight gain in the first place. Weight gain is simply the result of consuming more and spending fewer calories. If weight loss is all about boosting your metabolic rate, it is perfectly logical to think that weight gain could be due to a sub-optimal metabolism caused by, among many factors, a poor functioning thyroid gland. Not all obese people have an underlying thyroid problem. Only a medical check up can confirm whether obesity is due to any medical condition.
Thus, if weight gain is a fall-out of energy imbalance, all you need to do to lose weight is to create an energy deficit by consuming lesser calories than you burn through physical activities. The amount of energy requirements varies according to many factors like body proportions, body composition, age and gender.
You can control the number of calories burned based on the frequency, duration and intensity of your activities. As your own metabolism influences the level of energy you need, it is ultimately the food you consume and the physical activity that you engage in that will determine your weight.
The biggest problem with crash diets and other slimming dietary supplements is that it actually causes slowing down of metabolism. This in turn affects the weight loss program, which suddenly comes to a grinding halt.
Increasing your physical exercise as well as reducing the quantum of food intake also do not influence weight loss – since the loss of protein in your muscles will keep on lowering your metabolism and your system will soon adapt it self to lower calorie intake; whereas an increase in metabolism may provide continuous and permanent weight loss. The benefits of this are:
- Your body will need less exercise.
- Your exercising time will reduce. There will not be any more reason for carrying on relentlessly with your exercise program to burn those calories.
- Lesser chances of regaining weight later.
- You do not have to give up on your favorite foods and go on a strict diet.
- You will experience more fat loss than water loss.
It is a fact that when we lose weight, we also lose protein stored in the muscles. The faster you lose weight, the faster is the protein loss too. Since you are also consuming less protein through your diet, the protein from the muscles is further broken down to make new proteins required for our immune system and used up for our normal energy requirement. Gradually as the protein is lost from the cells, there is a reduction of the total lean body weight, and subsequently metabolism is lowered.
Because of this development, our body requires fewer calories to maintain body weight. When we lose proteins, we also lose fluids, because protein holds around 4 times its weight in water. Hence the weight loss experienced in the first few weeks of a dieting regimen is mainly due to fluid loss and not fat loss. If you boost your metabolism, you will regain a bit of the fluid loss, while weight loss will be gradual.
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