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.

Struggling with weight loss and sugar cravings

So after a few days I am hitting the wall in my fight with my craving monsters. Last night I had 3 pieces of cake, bite sized but I needed them. More like the craving monster won that battle BUT I will win the war.

As I have said before I am not a big sugar junky but I do get the sugar craving monster showing up every so often and last night I didnt have the tool to stop him in his tracks. The tool for fighting and taming the sugar craving monster is

"CHEWING GUM"

Sugar Free chewing gum is a god send for taming the sugar craving monster. I like Mint Gum by Orbit but there are loads of flavours and they are sweet and you can fool your sugar craving monster and your something in your mouth craving monster. It is an immediate explosion of flavour as soon as you put it in your mouth. Eat 1, 2 or 3 pieces at a time to get that fake sugar hit which can confuse your sugar craving monster. As soon as it loses its flavour if you need to spit it out and bang in some fresh chewing gum while you source a healthy filler to take away the hunger you might be having. This is the time to put on a cup of soup, get a piece of quiche out of the fridge or choose some fruit to munch on.

Confusing and faking out your craving monsters is how we beat them and we keep our weight loss and our eating habits on track. Having a pack or two in your pocket as you move around in life is an ideal way of dealing with the sugar craving monster. Once it learns you have a tool nearby that can stop it dead in its tracks you will find the sugar craving monster will retreat from the forefront of your mind and your problems with keeping to the NO SUGAR tool is supported even more.

I have sorted out my lack of chewing gum and I am now better prepared to move forward with my weight loss and eating habits.

So another issue for people trying to lose weight is eating something crunchy, so I have developed a small salad that you can eat with your meats and cheese.
Chinese Salad is my winner for adding something crunchy with my meal. Here is the recipe:

Chinese Salad
Slice up a quarter of a cabbage in to small strips
1.5 tablespoons of mayonaise
1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce

Mix it all in a mixing bowl and pop in the fridge for about an hour.
This salad is two portions of your suggested fruit and vegetable intake per day. The flavour is explosive in your mouth and it is super crunchy which is great when you are eating meats, cheese based meals and quiches. Adds a hell of a lot to a meal.


When you have a what you feel is a failure when trying to lose weight there is another tool you can use:
"Tommorrow is another day" 
This is a key tool you need to keep in your mind. You might go 3 days then fail, so what, start again and you will see you will last 5 days. Slowly but surely you will see that your new eating habits will start to last longer and before you know it you will go months and months without failure. This is the key to weight loss and changing your eating habits.

I failed to maintain after 9 days and I start again today. But my failure was 3 bite sized pieces of cake. Now I am ready to start again and this time I will go longer.