Can You Raise Your Metabolism by Eating?

August 13, 2010 admin No comments

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Hi,

Can you raise your metabolism by eating?

You probably know that you can raise your metabolism by moving more or doing more exercise. That is pretty simple to figure out.

But, can you raise it just by eating? Turns out you can.

Your metabolism is simply how much of your calories are converted from food into fuel. The higher your metabolism the more calories your burn.

This happens no matter what you are doing. You could be exercising, eating, sleeping or just breathing. A higher metabolism will burn more calories doing all of these things.

Before we get into how to do this, let’s get rid of the myth that there are negative calorie foods. These would be foods that if you eat them they will burn more calories then you take in.

Sorry, but there is no scientific evidence that this is true at all.

Okay, that is out of the way. One way to raise your metabolism is to eat more times per day. That doesn’t mean that your should raise your calories.

Just take the same number of calories you eat and spread it out over a couple of more meals. Eating burns calories. Eating a couple of more times a day burns more calories.

Now an important concept with this is to eat at least a half way decent diet. Eating a bunch of junk food and spreading it out over more meals doesn’t really help you and may actually be more harmful.

Make sure you include more protein for your extra meals. You could actually eat something like beef jerky, tuna or hard boiled eggs for a couple of extra snacks. Protein burns more calories.

Drink some caffeine. Drinking coffee or tea (without adding sugar and whipping cream) will raise your metabolism by 3-4% for a few hours after drinking.

There are the ways you can raise your metabolism by eating. Next post we’ll look at a couple of other ways to raise it without eating.

Thanks,

Mike