How many times have you heard someone say that they simply cannot lose the weight they want because of his or her slow metabolism? How many times have you said this yourself?

It is easy to blame metabolism for the inability to lose weight or the sluggish way in which we seem to lose weight only to gain it right back again. Understanding a bit about metabolism first will open up the gateways to simply increasing your metabolism for more weight loss.

The responsible job of your metabolism is to convert food into fuel while it is also responsible for how quickly and efficiently it will burn that fuel. Most people have an individual relationship with their own metabolism, meaning that they burn calories at a different rate of speed.

So many factors come into your own personal metabolism such as hereditary conditions, your gender, and your age. Although you cannot do much about your gene pool, age, or gender, there are some ways that you can boost your metabolism for more weight loss.

Exercise to Increase Metabolism

Most people view exercise as a means and a way to lose weight. While the initial phase of exercise will find you losing weight, it is important to know that exercise also boosts your metabolism, which is important to continue to lose weight and to maintain that ideal weight. You are not simply exercising to lose weight, but to also increase your metabolism.

The best types of exercise are aerobic exercise, which will do the trick to help you lose calories and weight training, which will aid in increasing muscle. When you increase muscle, you burn more calories than you burn fat. The more muscles you have strengthened, the higher your metabolism, the more calories your body will burn to maintain your weight.

Simpler, Smaller, More Frequent Meals

Starving yourself has the opposite and adverse effect of losing weight. Your body will hold onto more fat as it thinks it is being deprived. However, when you eat smaller, more frequent meals, you increase your metabolism rate. Although it does not seem this way, eating smaller more frequent meals really does boost your metabolism in a simple and effective manner. And, after all, who does not want to eat more?

Increasing your aerobic exercise, weight training, and eating smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day are all excellent ways to trim your tummy and keep it that way. Making small lifestyle changes and incorporating these tips into your routine can increase your metabolism.
Having a higher metabolism can help you lose weight and keep it off, while also giving you more energy.

This article was reviewed and approved by Dr. Fisher. Dr. Jon Fisher is a Board Certified Family Physician and a recognized authority on How to Lose Weight, lower cholesterol and body contouring in a medically supervised environment. Read his full bio