Why Weight

Metabolism Definition - Resting Metabolic Rate

By Dan Beckwith

Metabolism is a bodily function that converts the food (calories) we eat into energy. We either burn them immediately for an energy boost, or we save them for later in the form of fat.

If you have a "slow" or less efficient metabolism, it can show in many ways...If you are distressed because your favorite jeans don't fit anymore, your belt doesn't quite reach all the way around and so on. You CAN do something about it and create a healthier and better life for yourself.

However, it doesn't have to be difficult to lose weight and in fact shouldn't mean starving yourself. If you are doing it right, you'll NEVER be hungry.

There are a lot of diet programs out there, and it can be confusing because there are so many. Be careful, though; avoid those "get thin quick" programs that promise excessive weight loss over a very short period of time. Sure, most of them come with testimonials and a lot of advertising, and it may be quite tempting to drop 6 pounds in 24 hours. However, even if it works, it doesn't work for long. You'll note that those folks that dropped all that weight aren't going to be showing up a year later, having kept it off. Why is that so? Because these people have almost always gained back all the weight they lost - and more.

So, the time has come for you to take charge of your body and master your weight. Losing weight is all about the efficiency of your metabolism. Once you fully understand how it works and you can calculate what your "resting metabolic rate" or RMR is, you've already done half the work.

RMR explained...

Metabolism definition - Your resting metabolic rate is the speed at which your body turns calories into fuel even when you're resting and not actively doing anything. Several things influence this resting metabolic rate. For example...

One of the things that influences RMR is our age. You might have noticed that a lot of us tend to gain weight as we get older, and that's because age slows down RMR.

Dieting, too, is bad for RMR because the dieting really ratchets DOWN our metabolism. If we drastically cut back on calorie intake, we're going to lose a few pounds at first, true, but we're also going to slow down our metabolism - quite markedly.

That means when we go off the diet, we'll be gaining back all the weight we lost -- but now, we've done ourselves a disservice because the dieting has slowed down our metabolism, which means that we gain weight much easier. And so, presto, we gain the weight back plus more.

In American vernacular, that's often called "yo-yo dieting." You lose weight, you gain it back faster, you lose again, you gain it back, and so on.

A third problem with drastically cutting calories and therefore rapidly losing a lot of weight in a short period of time can also mean that you lose a lot of muscle. This puts you in a pretty dangerous position, too. You need muscle to function, plus muscles burn significantly more calories than fat. This means that any good "diet" (make that lifestyle) program is going to include exercise. The more you can move your body, tone, and build muscle, the more calories you're going to burn even when you're not doing anything; yes, you can truly "lose weight when you sleep" -- as long as you exercise when you're awake.

So how do you increase your metabolism? It doesn't have to be painful and it certainly doesn't have to be difficult. To learn more about metabolism definition and about how you can master it, and therefore get the weight falling off quickly but safely, take a look at my website. You learn what you need to know about safely increasing your metabolism and taking off the extra weight. While you're there, why not take a look at my free mini-course "Free Weight Loss Tips!" as well?

I've done a TON of study and research into weight loss and speeding up metabolism so that weight just automatically melts away. To learn more about metabolism definition, visit my website. You can also get a copy of my Fast Weight Loss Tips! mini-course while it's still free. Follow the tips and you WILL lose weight, guaranteed!
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