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What is metabolism?

This is among the primary questions of many individuals who are interested in losing weight. If you are among them, this is the best time for you to know the relationhsip between metabolism and weight loss.

Metabolism is actually one of the most complicated processes taking place inside your body. But for you to simply understand it, it is actually the procedure where foods are broken down by your body, converting these to energy needed by your system in performing all your essential functions.

Basically, the age-old adage stating that you are actually what you eat holds some truth in it since all the foods you are taking are being metabolised and utilised for providing the energy that forms new cells, cells that form you.

When metabolism is taking place inside your body, the energy that has been produced can already be used instantly or it can also be stored to be consumed at a later time. Once this is stored, this turns into fat, which means that if you take in more energy than what is needed by your system, you will be gaining weight. Although the process is much more complex than what you have just read, with numerous hormones and other essential factors involved, it just goes to say that intake of more food or
energy than what is necessary leads to accumulation of extra pounds.

A person’s body requires a specified energy amount for it to continue running smoothly. It is commonly measured as your body’s required energy amount for maintaining itself even at rest, which is known as BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate

What is metabolic rate and how can it affect your body? Well, if your basal metabolic rate is high, you are lucky because you can eat all foods that you want without having to worry of gaining extra weight. On the other hand, if your metabolic rate is low, all that you eat might just end up storing in your hips. Although metabolic rate is greatly
affected by genetics, there are still several things that can be done to speed up metabolism.

The calories that you burn when doing activities, even when doing nothing, are directly influenced by your body’s muscle amount. It means that if you start building muscle, your speed metabolism will increase and because more calories are being burned when doing the things you used to do, you can now eat more. On the other hand, if you wish to lose extra weight, make sure that you still eat similarly, with your body getting the additional energy it required from your stored fats.

Another way to boost your metabolism is to eat smaller meals and more of them because your body is designed to eat like a caveman and is built for the feast or famine mode as cavemen sometimes had to go days without anything but a few berries to eat and as a survival mechanism, when food isn’t plentiful nature made our bodies metabolism slow down naturally, so, eating many smaller meals will give your
body the signal that there is plenty of food available and so it can feel free
to rev up the engines.  The other advantage of eating more small meals is that it also takes energy to digest food so by doing this you will actually be expending more energy meaning there will be less left over to store as fat.

Know that you know what is metabolism, you should realise how essential it is for survival. Metabolism and weight loss are directly associated, which means that you must be conscious enough of what you will be eating in order for your body to make the most out of all the energy it produces without making you worry about gaining some unwanted pounds.

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