What is the best and safest way to speed up metabolism?
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*you should EAT LESS - eating small amount but regular meals instead of taking one o two large meals throghout the day, may help your metabolism ticking over. Be reminded that\n10% calories we use each day just for digesting & absorbing food - the more times we eat, the greater it's efect is likely be...\n*drink more GREEN TEA - it contains anti-oxidants that speed up metabolism...\n*eat plenty of LOW-FAT PROTEIN-RICH FOODS - such as lean meat, skinless chicken & low fatt dairy products...\n*go to SAUNA - it boost metabolism about 20% (check your health status first before having a sauna...
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Most effective way and keeping it off? \nExercise first thing in the morning before breakfast(running or swimmings the best) or you could go to gym in your lunch brake(a lot of people do this).I go to a class every day after work tho cos im not a morning person!  Do this 5 days a week. Do hour of weights every other day.\nFood? Eat a filling breakfast full of protein(protein builds muscle and gives you a leaner look) like poached or scrambbled egg on toast with tomato and mushrooms. For lunch- chicken with salad, or tuna bean salad. Basically a protein with veg and bit of carb. And dinner- chicken , veg and brown rice or chicken stir fry is always good.  \nIf u want a quick metabolism eat frequently like every 3 hours. So eat fruit or have a protein drink.
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eat healthy and exercise;\nit is a cliche for a reason\n\nhealthy well balanced eating habits (no deep fried foods, avoid soda pop and sweetened juices, drink lots of water, eat smaller portions, eat slower, chew your food, don't do fad diets)\nand exercise\nfind something that you will stick with;\nswimming, walking, biking, dancing, just something that gets you moving!\n(and lifting weights will help you tone and speed up your metabolism)
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The best way to increase your weight is to always exceed your daily energy requirements. Find out exactly how many calories you burn on a daily basis through an assessment of your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate)& AMR (Active Metabolic Rate). Once you have these numbers, it's simple math. Ensure you are above or consuming more calories than your body burns on a daily basis and you should increase your mass with the appropriate weight training regimen. \n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html\n\nHere are some tips:\n1) always eat a heavy complex carb meal (pasta/rice)at least 1-2 hours before going to sleep.\n2) try weight gainer shakes at your local health food store.\n3) STAY AWAY FROM CARDIO (this really should be a short-term ideally since refraining from cardiovascular exercise can jepordize long-term health). For your purposes in the short-term, cardio will only hamper efforts to gain weight. If you don't have to run then walk, if you don't have to walk then stand, if you don't have to stand then sit, if you don't have to sit then lie down.\n4) weight training (if you are at least intermediate level) should not exceed 8 reps, especially on large muscle groups. Please seek the advice of a professional trainer before proceeding with heavy weights if you are not at least an intermediate level weight trainer. \n5) concentrate on multi joint and power movements such as squats and deadlifts for the largest spike in growth hormone during your workouts (again proceed only under supervision)\n6) never workout more than 90 minutes\n7) track your progress - it's the only way you'll find out what works for you\n8) sleep sleep and more sleep - minimum 9-10 hours to maximize growth.\n9) Drink plenty of water\n10) Creatine - probably one of the best ways to gain weight (if used properly) in the short-term.\n\nHere's a list of weight training exercises to help you:\n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/fitness/Strength_Exercises.html
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Under 120.  You should try working out about 30 minutes a day, and increase the workout as you feel comfortable. Bicycling, dancing, basketball, and walking are all great ways to get in shape.  Try watching your calorie intake, stay away from foods such as sweets, chips, fatty cheeses, soda, and drink water as much as possible.   Drinking about 70-100 ounces of water a day will give your metabolism a good boost.  Also, jumping jacks are a good workout- 17 of them burns one gram of fat, so you can calculate how many you need to do each day based on what you eat.
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1. Increase your metabolism by- \n\nGaining Muscle from lifting weights the more muscle you have the more calories you body burns in a day\n\nDrinking Green Tea or Coffee speed up Heart rate. This is called thermogenics\n\nCardio. King of all.  Cardio can make you burn extra calories all day.  \n\nEat 5 small meals to also increase you metabolism. eating prevents your body from puting itself is starvatiion mode.  When you starve yourself, the body draws energy from other parts of the body mainly muscle. So by eating small meals everyday you constantly keep your body working around the clock.\n\n2.  Diet\nStop eating fried foods. The worst food ever it is cooked in animal fat.\nStop eating junk. Sugar stores as fat.\nMost importantly stop eating empty calories.  Drinks and Some juices or anything you intake that doesn't fill you up but is high in caloric value\nDrink a lot of water to flush out impurities in your body so it can function and rid itself of things than make you gain weight.(it also clears up you skin)\n\n\n\nIf you follow this you will lose on avg. about 2-3% of your body weight each week.
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Try these tips to put your metabolism into overdrive\n\nGet pumped\n\nThe body bums calories in its muscle cells, so the more muscle you have, the more calories you'll use up--even at rest. And you shouldn't worry that building more muscle will make you look like Vin Diesel. "We don't have the amount of testosterone guys have to get that big," says Ann Yelmokas McDermott, Ph.D., a nutritionist and research scientist at Tufts University. Cardiovascular exercise will also help you burn fat and build more lean muscle. (For examples of interval-and-strength-training exercises that can increase your metabolism, see the fitness story, "Go for the Burn.")\n\nDon't skip meals\n\nIf you go long periods of time without eating, your body will try to conserve energy by burning fewer calories, says Cynthia Sass, a registered dietician and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. And skipping meals "sets you up to be overhungry later on," adds Madelyn H. Fernstrom, Ph.D., director of the Weight Management Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Instead try to nibble on small meals throughout the day. Nibbling will help keep you full while you're waiting for lunch and dinner, which could stop you from overeating. And in addition to getting all your meals in, avoid extreme diets that call for serious calorie cutting--they can actually reduce your basal metabolic rate (BMR) by up to 30 percent.\n\nDrink plenty of water\n\n"Lack of water can slow the metabolic rate," says John Acquaviva, Ph.D., professor of Health and Human Performance at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. "Since water is the body's most important nutrient, the liver will turn its concentration to water retention instead of doing other duties, such as burning fat." Dehydration can also be mistaken for hunger, so if you're thirsty you may end up eating more.\n\nGo for protein\n\nEating protein stimulates the center of the brain, which regulates hunger and fullness, so you feel more satisfied than when you eat carbs, says Fernstrom. And according to Foster, proteins give your metabolic rate a slight boost so you burn more calories eating them.\n\nIncrease your intake of low-fat dairy\n\nA 2002 study that observed Black women found that the higher their calcium intake was, the lower the measure of their body fat. Some researchers believe that high calcium diets--about three servings of low-fat dairy a day--may help suppress a hormone that slows the breakdown of fat cells and instructs them to make even more fat. A 2003 Journal of Nutrition study also found that some of the other nutrients in dairy may help in the reduction of body weight and body fat.\n\nHave breakfast\n\nStudies have shown that people who eat breakfast lose more weight than people who don't. Why? Your body slows down when you sleep and doesn't speed back up again until you put some fuel in it. Eating breakfast may also make you less likely to snack throughout the day. But that doesn't mean you should reach for a plate of bacon and eggs. Choose plenty of fruit and whole grains instead. Fiber is a particularly good breakfast bet because it will leave you feeling full longer.\n\nCut back on alcohol\n\nNot only are alcoholic beverages high in empty calories, but drinking can also lower your inhibitions, Fernstrom says, making it easier to say yes to all those fattening foods you might otherwise take a pass on.
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-NEVER starve yourself: this simply slows down your metabolism as it tries to compensate for reduced caloric intake.\n-EAT several small meals and not one big meal. The small meals are like firewood that kindles a fire and keeps it going. Eating one big meal is like throwing a huge log into a small fire and trying to get it going. \n-Eat healthy foods. Sugar and other simple carbohydrates give you a temporary energy boost but you then hit a slump soon afterwards. You want sustained energy that keeps that fire going: eat proteins and complex carbohydrates, and small amounts of healthy fats (like those in olive oil, canola oil, and fish like salmon and tuna).\n-Exercise. Aerobic exercise is great because it boosts your metabolism right away. Never eat right before you exercise. Eat after you exercise because during the two hours after you do aerobic exercise your body is burning more calories, so you put on less weight. (But don't overeat after exercise).\n-Build up muscle mass by doing weight-bearing exercise. The muscle burns twice as many calories at rest than fat cells.
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there are a lot of ways to increase metabolism.\n\n1. exercise. exercise increases metabolism because like any activity that requires you to move and exert effort, you are expending energy and thus burning calories.\n\n2. muscle gain. exercising with weights will lead to muscle gain which will in turn lead to a higher metabolism. Your metabolism will increase if you gain muscle because those muscles will require extra energy to stay alive and thus the increase in metabolism.\n\n3. eating eating small meals more frequently as opposed to the big 3 (breakfast, lunch, dinner) also increases metabolism. try to eat a small meal every 3 hours. The reason for this is that your body burns more calories since it is constantly digesting something in your stomach and will raise your metabolism.
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Try using a more balanced approach by gradually increasing your metabolism.\n\nFor any weight loss program its important to understand how to increase your RMR or metabolism.  Your RMR or resting metabolic rate is the amount of energy you burn in your daily activities.  \n\nDo you know someone who can eat anything they want and  they are skinny as a rail even if they dont workout?  Well that person has a very high RMR.\n\nThere are several ways to increase metabolism but lets look at the factors that drive your metabolism RMR first. \n\n1. Genetics - you have very little control, but you are not a prisoner of your genes. \n\n2. Lean Muscle Mass - this one throws most people off because women think, oh no I dont want muscles and men think I guess I have to look like a body builder. Lean muscle mass is simply your weight minus the weight of your organs, bones, fluids and fat. You increase lean muscle mass primarily through eating properly, resistance exercise, and a lifestyle that doesnt promote catabolizing activites (smoking, heavy drinking and drug use)\n\n3. Frequency of meals - the more meals the more the metabolic processes take place in your body and the faster your metabolism.\n\n4. Water Intake - dehydration is a major drag on metabolism.\nMost people are dehydrated and they dont know it.\n\n5. Sleep - getting enough rest allows the body to function at a higher metabolic level.\n\nFor more information check my source.   It tells you more information than you even knew about your metabolism.  It  also goes into greater detail about different ways to speed your metabolism.\n\nhttp://www.jtfit.com/metabolism/
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try ginseng for oxygenating muscle, reduce salt in your overall diet ( check the nutrition labels for sodium content) drink water and take a multivitamin that contains all your Bs, Iron, C and Zinc.\nIron can bind you up so take it easy, might want to take one every other day if this occurs, everyone's metabolism is a little different.\nIron is best taken with vitamin C.\nKeep in mind a few things... you will gain more energy once you get moving, the more you exercise the more you can do the next workout, teach your body a new routine, time to tighten the bootstraps and show it who's boss. Start walking... make it simple at first, get the ticker "tickin" and used to "tickin". One step at a time, one workout at a time, mark your calendar with 3 walks per week and increase to 3, 30 minute workouts per week. Cycling, swimming, mad cleaning frenzies, walking briskly, whatever! Move it!
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You can kick start your metabolism by increasing your anaerobic threshold, (AT). This means using cardiovascular excersises like running outside, or on a treadmill. Walking fast, or any cardio machine at a club. By increasing your body's ability to more effeciently utilize oxygen, you are training it to burn more sugar and fat. To prevent injury, though, start slow! Reducing your caloric intake and increasing your cardiovascular excersises will both help to increase your metabolism.
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metabolism, the older you get the slower it works. so eat healthy meals 5 to 6 times a day to keep your metabolism at its peak.\n\nstop eating mcdonalds!!
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baby girl, nice hello kitty. you need to increase your metabolism by exercising more. simple regimen of walking, jogging, or biking, or any type of aerobic exercises.
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The only way to increase metabolism is by building up muscle mass, which you’re doing through weight training. You won't be able to increase your metabolism dramatically, but even burning an extra 50 calories each day can add up over time. \nSome people find that eating five or six small meals a day helps to limit hunger and, therefore, calorie intake. Our bodies store any excess calories as fat, so it makes sense not to overeat. \n\nMost of us want to lose weight quickly, but in reality most people lose weight slowly, shedding approximately one or two pounds each month. Instead of expecting rapid weight loss, focus on small goals that are behaviour-related, such as increasing the number of miles you walk and the amount of fruit you eat each day, but decreasing the number of times you eat for emotional reasons instead of hunger. If you make gradual changes like these, the weight will come off in time. Just be patient!
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Drink a bottle of water as soon as you get up.  It will jump start your metabolism so that your breakfast will digest faster.  It also perks you up a bit without inudating your body with a bunch of cafeen first thing in the morning.
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Dont TRY to get in 30 min a day, DO get in 30 min a day.  No matter what you do for a living/daily, you ALWAYS have 30 min somewhere in your day.  Even if it means getting up 30 min early in the morning.  \n\nTo increase your metabolism, first make sure it's working all the time.  Have 8 full oz of water first thing when you wake up.  That will make you hungry, so make sure you have good protein in your breakfast (I have eggs, you can also do nuts).  Make sure you eat every 2-4 hours and make sure it's something small.  An apple, banana, yogurt, etc.  Stick with fresh fruits and veggies for your snacks if you can.  Make certain youre drinking 64 oz of water per day because you feel hungry less often and cut calories easily that way.  I fill two 32 oz water bottles at the beginning of the day to make sure I drink it all.  It's easy to lose track of a glass here and there.  \n\nGood luck!