Metabolic Rate

Everyone talks about their metabolic rate being slow and thats why they are fat!!!!!!!

We all know some skinny winny who can eat what they want and still stay skinny. And don't we just hate them and we tell everyone we have SLOW metabolic rate hence I am fat.

Stupid really.

Everyone has a metabolic rate and YOU can change the pace of your metabolic rate so it burns fat all the time.

How do we do this?

Lets see as a fat person I don't like to do much but with some simple little tools I can increase my metabolic rate, get healthier and lose weight.

So here is the Metabolic Rate Increaser Tools:

1. Build Muscles

Muscles use energy even when they are resting. So if you develop some muscle groups on your body you will start to lose weight and increase your metabolic rate. Two step process, exercise by doing some light weight lifting for your arms, go for a walk and increase your leg muscles. By doing this you a) Burn fat b)Increase your muscles.

2.Increase you caffeine intake

Strange one I know but caffeine will increase you metabolic rate by 5-10% for two hours after drinking caffeine based drinks like coffee, tea and Diet Coke. Scientists are not sure why this occurs but they have tested and have seen the results.

3.Cool down

By keeping your house cooler your body will burn energy to keep you warm and the result of this is that your metabolic rate increases. I am NOT saying live in an igloo and get frostbit but turn the thermostats down a few degrees and make your body work a little harder to to keep you warm.

4. Short Walks

By going on a short walk, 15-30 mins long you will increase your metabolic rate again. You see your metabolic rate is like a car and when it is parked it doesnt do much more than idle but when you put it in gear and make it go somewhere it burns up energy and your metabolic rate increases.

So there is 4 tools to add to your warchest on losing weight and stop being a fatty like me. I am using these tools every day.

Tommorrow I will discuss how to avoind slowing down your metabolic rate.

Alcohol is no good for weight loss

Drinking alcohol is a weight loss killer. Its totally empty calories made up of sugar. To truly lose weight alcohol has to be sidelined.

OK so we have put it on the table with dinner and lunch for years, wine/beer, and now it has to be taken off the table and taken off the menu totally. I am fortunate as I don't drink alcohol and have never drank alcohol, why, I simply can't stand the taste.

This is a tough step for a lot of people but this is an essential step in our lifestyle change. The amount of people that struggle with their weight also drink a lot of alcohol. As you can see I am talking about wine/beer because they are the sugar kings of alcohol and the craving monsters LOOOOVVVEE them. Look at all the tv shows that show white trash, trailer park people and in the men there you see a lot of them with big ol' bellies hanging over their belts. Calories from beer/wine go straight to your belly and STAY there and your body has real difficulties shifting that alcohol based fat build up.

I hear people screaming, I love a drink but I am not an excessive drinker! Any intake of wine/beer has got to be minimised at the very least.

Lets look at a popuar beer in the USA - Michelob

Michelob Amber Boch	Anheuser Busch	5.2%	166	15.0g
Michelob Beer	Anheuser Busch	5.0%	155	13.3g
Michelob Golden Draft	Anheuser Busch	4.7%	152	14.1g
Michelob Golden Draft Light	Anheuser Busch	4.1%	110	7.0g
Michelob Honey Lager	Anheuser Busch	4.9%	175	17.9g
Michelob Light	Anheuser Busch	4.3%	113	6.7g
Michelob Ultra	Anheuser Busch	4.1%	95	2.6g

 So this chart shows a 12oz beer - 355ml. Brand-Maker-Alcohol Content- CALORIES - CARBS

This is why BEER has to go from your diet.

Ok what can I drink when I am out socially?

Description

Serving Sizes

kCal

Fat(g)

Calories in Bacardi & Diet Coke	175ml	65	0.0
Calories in Jack Daniels & Diet Coke	175ml	64	0.0
Calories in Southern Comfort & Diet 7Up	175ml	48	0.0

If you need to drink socially you need to look at drinking Spirits as you can see in the chart above spirits will not pile on excessive calories or sugar. All you need to do is mix them with a sugar free mixer like Diet Coke or Diet 7Up.

When you are having a meal forgo the wine and drink water with your meal. I KNOW ITS HARD but of you are fed up being fat these are the steps that re required to alter your lifestyle and defeat the craving monsters which currently control your life and make you eat what you don't need.

Using the tool, DO I NEED TO EAT THIS , you simply adapt this tool slightly and use it as DO I NEED TO DRINK THIS and make yourself stop, consider and proceed in the RIGHT direction turning your back on your craving monsters which in essence are driving you to drink.

Each craving monster has to be cured one at a time, cured is not the right word, the craving monster has to be taught they DO NOT control you - YOU CONTROL THEM!!!

Lets look at todays craving monster, Beer/Wine Monster. He likes you to hang out with your friends or when you watch a ball game on TV suck down a few brewskis just to be sociable. He loves the sugar in beer and it makes him dance like a whirling dervish so when he sees you settle down on the Lazee Boy for a footbal game he is screaming in your brain for a brewski.

So we have to first of all tell him to shut up by drinking so me cold sugar free sodas, followed by a JD and Diet Coke. He will be pleased with the JD but little else. But this is the training programme he is now in, he demands but YOU CONTROL him. If you like the taste of beer imagine he LOVES the taste of the sugar in the beer.

So now we use the tools to defeat this particular cravings monster.

DO I NEED TO DRINK THIS? NO SUGAR-NO BREAD.

He will learn, it will take time but this craving monster can be trained and sent back to the dark recesses of your mind for good.

Did well yesterday, no bread, no sugar and walked 1km.

Using the tools just like you are learning.

Have a great day.