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Keep Exercising

Ultimately, if you want to loose weight and keep it off, you should be exercising and there is plenty of advise to help you do it. If the idea scares you, immediately makes you feel time pressured, The way in which exercise makes us stronger is by creating tiny little tears in the muscle, which the body then repairs- just as it does a cut in your skin. This rebuilding, combined with the extra oxygen, blood and other fluids flowing in and oout of the muscles post-exercise, all keep your body up well after your workout is over.

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.

What is Metabolism?

Genetics

It’s estimated that 60 per cent of the speed of your metabolic rate is determined by your genes, as these control how much muscle you have in your body and how effectively your thyroid gland, which drives the metabolic rate, works. Studies on identical twins have shown that they have identical metabolic rates so, if your parents have a slow metabolic rate, so will you.

Gender

Men generally have slightly faster metabolisms than women, because they have lower levels of body fat and higher levels of muscle mass as part of their genetic make-up. this is important as muscle is what fitness experts refer to as metabolically active, which means that it actually burns calories to survive. This means that the more muscle you have in your body, the higher your metabolic rate.

Age

While male metabolism does slow with the age, the decline is greater for women. From the age about 35, the hormonal changes that occur in the female body to prepare it for menopause also start to affect the body’s ability to retain muscle. as a result, each year in the 10-15 years before menopause the average woman loses roughly 0.25 kg of muscle. after menopause , when hormone levels are lower. that loss doubles. This means that every decade women also see a fall in the amountcaloriesthey burnt each day.This slowdown is one of the primary reasons why weight gain often occurs in middle age.

What does the diet involve?

This diet really is simple. For five days a week you follow a structured low-calorie, nutrient-rich, metabolism-boosting diet and exercise plan. Then for the two days of the weekend you can eat whatever you like. Essentially, you divide your dieting life, just as most of us divide our weeks- into weekdays and weekend days with different rules for each.

Weekdays:

Whatever diet they are on, most of dieters find it fairly easy to stick to their diet plan during the week. There’s lots of reason for this - usually too busy to cheat, if you are at work or out and about there’s no easily available fridge or cupboard of goodies to tempt you, and you probably have less of a social life during the week to derail things. The result is that weekdays are definitely more diet friendly and it’s the reason why, on this diet, you’re going to stick to an organized eating plan from Monday to Friday.

Detox Tea

DeTox uses detoxifying herbs known traditionally as “blood cleansers.”

Both Organic Burdock and Organic Dandelion work together in this tea to facilitate the

elimination of toxins.

As pollutants find their was from our air, food and water into the tissues of our bodies,

they tend to take a heavy toll and can interfere with the normal functions of the organ systems.

As a result, we are often left feeling swollen, tired, heavy or even “backed up,”

and as though we could use some rebalancing.

DeTox is a gentle way of combating this condition as it

Enhances the body to clean itself out by aiding the two primary filtering mechanisms,

the liver and the kidneys. We have included Jamaican Sarsaparilla in this formula,

which is known for both its delicious taste and its purifying properties.

On the way of Diet..

Holiday Cocktails

The Pama Pine…..

4 oz. Van Gogh Pineapple Vodka

4 oz. Pama Pomegranate Liqueur , Splash of lemon juice

Direction:

Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.

Shake and pour.

Apple Cocktail…..

2 oz. Domaine de Canton

1 oz. vanilla vodka , 2 1/2 oz. apple cider

A few drop of lemmon juice , Orange zest

Agave syrup, Spiced graham cracker crumbs

Direction:

Rim a chilled glass lightly with agave syrup, followed by spiced graham cracker crumbs.

Place all ingredients except for orange zest in a shaker and shake virgorously.

Strain into glass, freshly grate orange zest on drink and serve immediately.

Why crash dieting doesn’t work

The slowdown in your metabolism that occurs when you cut calories too low is equivalent to about one-third of the amount of calories you have cut. In other words, if the average is 63.5 kg ( 10 stone ) woman, goes on 1,000-calories a day diet. Her metabolism slow by roughly 333 calories, meaning only 667 of those calories actually contribute to her weight loss. Cutting calories too low doesn’t work.

Feel healthy not hungry

On this diet plan treats and favorite foods are encouraged rather than banned. That’s not to say that this diet allows you to eat packets of biscuits or a deep pan pizza every day yet still loose weight.