Boost your metabolism and lose weight fast
Regrettably, many people simply don’t understand the
concept of metabolism and metabolic change. This, equally as
regrettably, is hardly their fault.
There is so much information floating around out there,
much of it over the ‘net or through a “friend of a friend who has a
personal trainer”, that there’s bound to be some confusion and
conflicting messages.
Furthermore, many people (quite understandably) mistake
their own weight gain and loss episodes as a matter of metabolic
change. Sometimes this is true, and sometimes it isn’t.
For example, as we will discuss in this book, there are
scientific ways to increase the rate of metabolic change, and thus
enable the body to burn more calories.
Eating certain foods more frequently is one way to do this
(again, we look closer at these in this book). Yet another way to
visibly lose weight – at least on a perceived, temporary level – is
to sit in a steam room for a few hours.
Whereas the former method (eating the right foods) is a real,
proven weight loss method through increased metabolic change,
the latter method (the steam room) is just temporary because the
lost weight is merely water, and will return as swiftly as it
“melted away”.
The point to remember here is that some people mistake
their own weight loss attempts as being related to metabolic
change; and, as you can see with the steam room example, that
isn’t always the case
We’ve come a long way! We now actually know more about the metabolism, and how to increase metabolic speed, than most people; and we’re therefore in a position to put that information to good use. We’ve learned that the metabolism is a process and not an actual body part. It harmonizes two essential bodily functions: converting food into cells/tissues, and breaking cells down to provide energy. We learned that the former process is known as anabolism, and the latter is catabolism. Indeed, it’s this latter process that influences our ability to lose weight, and to keep it from coming back!