You probably do know that if you miss your breakfast of have a lack of sleep, your metabolism will significantly slow down. Do you no longer skip your meals, go to bed in time and sleep only in darkness and complete silence? Don’t you spend too much time sitting? And all this is done only for it — for your metabolism, as it shouldn’t slow down! You may not know, but there are habits in your life that still slow down the speed of burning of calories in your organism.
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If you suddenly started to gain weight, maybe this happened due to one of the following reasons. Or maybe not even one!
1. You don’t eat regularly
Your organism is pretty smart. If it knows when it will receive food (its fuel), it launches the process of burning of calories, as it knows that soon will be the refueling. If there is no regular graphic of eating, body starts to save energy instead of burning it: who knows, what if the next refueling will happen not very soon. So, you need to eat each 3–4 hours to keep your metabolism stable.
2. You have only water to drink
Enough amount of water keeps the cellular and common metabolism on the highest level. When you don’t have enough water, your body burns 2% less calories, so drink! If you don’t like to drink pure water and as a result drink less, turn your attention to tea. For example, green tea helps to burst calories burning during the next three hours. Coffee also helps to burn fat, but doesn’t raise level of water in the organism.
3. You avoid dairy products
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Dairy food contains lots of nutritious elements that play an integral role if burning fat and formation of new muscles. We are speaking about conjugated linoleic acid, milk protein, casein and calcium. The last one is also very important for metabolism regulation. The more amount of it the fat cell contains, the more fat it will burn.
4. You don’t take seriously weight trainings
Full-fledged weight trainings speed up metabolism for 48 hours! They help to grow lean muscle mass what also improves metabolism.
5. You skip morning
You do your organism more harm than good if you boycott the morning sun. Early sun rays help to regulate circadian rhythms which are responsible for many functions in our organisms. This affects the regularity of your sleep, the amount of consumed food and the amount of burnt energy. All these factors are very important for good metabolism. Try to take vitamin D in the morning to launch your metabolism.
6. You completely excluded starches
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Diets with extreme low level of starches consumption have the reverse effect. When you train, your muscles need glycogen that is stored in starches in your body. If you don’t consume them, their resources will not renovate, and your organism will become withered and constantly tired. Without support of glycogen level, fully-fledged trainings are impossible as well as effective burning of calories during and after workouts.
7. You don’t know how to have a bite
If you think that snacks for a bite include crackers, pretzels and yogurts with sugar, then it’s time to change your habits and improve knowledge. Replace all sugar and quick starches which don’t satisfy your organism with fats: polyunsaturated fatty acids which can be found in nuts, for example. They help to increase activity of some genes which are responsible for burning fat. Eat a handful of walnuts a day and burn these nasty fats!
8. It is too warm
You body spends energy to warm to the comfortable temperature. This doesn’t mean that you need to sleep all winter with widely open windows and freeze, but try to create a fresh atmosphere in your bedroom. Cold activates subcutaneous fat (so-called brown fat) that is responsible for burning calories instead of their storage. The more brown fat you have in your organism, the more calories a day you will burn.
9. You use only sea salt
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Sea salt is a popular and tasty product which replaced common iodine-treated salt. However, lack of iodine harms metabolism, as thyroid body is also responsible for it. It iodine that causes stimulating effect on it. So, changing to iodine-treated salt may positively reflect on your metabolism. In addition, it is highly recommended to include to your ration such iodine-rich products as seafood, eggs and fish.
10. You eat inorganic products
Chemicals that contain in pesticides prevent an organism from spending energy. Consumption of too big amounts of these toxins may cause the reduction of metabolism. It is better to try to change your products to organic ones, at least fruits and vegetables.
11. You have iron deficiency
Iron transports oxygen to muscles. Without it, muscles suffer from oxygen lack, the level of energy reduces as well as metabolism does. You must include to your ration such products as grits reach with iron, beans and leafy greens.
12. Your stress level runs high
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Nothing, even metabolism, can hide from stress. Women who are always nervous and tensed burn 100 calories less than their calm friends. If you also tend to eating fast food during depression, better to start attending yoga courses. Relax, calm down and improve your metabolism.
So, now you surely can define if you were harming your metabolism lately or not. We hope that this information will help you to put your organism in order. Be healthy and happy!