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Foods that boost metabolism

Avocados:

The essential fats found in avocados actually rev up metabolic rate, speeding fat burning. Avocados are also the primari food source of a vital liver-boosting antioxidant called glutathione, and it’s the liver that controls how fast fat is burnt in your body.

Breakfast cereals:

Our bodies have to work hard to break down fibre. Every gram of fibre eaten takes 7 calories to process, so eating more high-fibre foods like breakfast cereals aids weight loss.

Chilli Pepper:

Chilli causes the release of the hormone adrenalin, which increases metabolic rate by roughly 25 per cent. Chilli is also an appetite suppressant, helping you feel fuller after each meal.

Dried fruit:

Dried fruit is high in iron, which is essential in metabolic terms, When your iron levels are low your whole body slows down, including the rate of which you burn calories. Iron is also responsible for retaining adequate blood oxygen levels and just as fire can’t burn without oxygen , neither can fat.

Grapefruit:

Grapefruit lower levels of the fat storage hormone insulin, helping promote fat burning. Having half a grapefruit or a glasses of grapefruit juice before meal caused volunteers to loose 4-5 kg in three months, without changing any other part of their diet.

Eating to boost metabolism

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.

It teaches you to eat properly

When most of us come to the end of a standard diet. the first thing we do is go out and eat all those foods we’ve been missing, which often starts the needle on the scales moving upwards again. On this diet you’ve been eating those favorite foods all along, so there’s no making up to be done. More importantly, by following the weekend eating guidelines you learn how to control yourself around these foods-and how to enjoy them without feeling guilty-forever.

You’re less likely to eat ‘invisible’ calories

The longer you’re on a normal diet, more likely it is that invisible calories creep in.They come from stopping weighing portions because you think you know how much is right, or because weight loss is going so well that you figure the odd chocolate bar won’t hurt. Eventually the calories add up. Because this diet effectively last only only five days each time. It’s much easier to avoid these invisible calories.