Eating to boost metabolism
March 7th, 2008 -- Posted in Diet, New, food, low fat, weight | 2 Comments »
Digesting food is an energy-intensive process-chewing ,producing digestive acids, moving things around the system and absorbing nutrients all takes effort. The result is that 6-10 percent of our daily calorie expenditure is taken up simply by converting the food we eat into something we can use. We can use this process to boost weight loss.
Eat little and often
Eating little and often is the key to losing weight successfully. This may go against what many of you have done in the past, but it really does help your metabolism and prevent the hunger pangs and sugar cravings that derail many normal diets.
Balanced sugar levels
Glazing also works because stops you craving diet-busting foods like chocolates, confectionery and sugar. Our body produces energy from the food we eat by turning it into the sugar glucose that it finds easy to use to fuel. When levels plumment it starts to panic and sends out signals that we need more glucose -and fast. To you, these panic signals feel like sugar cravings and the next thing to you know, you’re eating chocolate and your diet is doomed.
These are the two main reasons why glucose levels can fall-you leave too long between meals, or you eat too large a meal in one go, which causes a surge of clucose in the blood that the body then also panics over. shuttling it rapidly into the fat /muscle stones. Eating little and often. however, prevents both these potential sugar disrupters and keeps your energy on an even keel.
