Every time you eat, enzymes in your body's cells break down food and turn it into energy that keeps your heart pumping, your mind thinking, and your legs pumping during a grueling workout. The faster your metabolism works, the more calories you burn. The more you burn, the easier it is to shed pounds. And get this: You can make your metabolism work harder — a lot harder — 24 hours a day.
To some extent, our bodies hum at a predetermined speed determined by gender and genetics, but there's still plenty of wiggle room.
»You have a tremendous amount of control over your metabolic rate,» says John Berardi, Ph.D., C.S.C.S., author of The Metabolism Advantage. «You can't affect how many calories it takes to keep your heart pumping, but you can burn an extra 500 to 600 calories a day by exercising properly, eating right, and making a few changes to your routine.
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Getting out of bed
Eat (a good) breakfast every day: If you don't, your body goes into starvation mode (it's that paranoid), so your metabolism slows down to conserve energy, says Berardi. And the more substantial your first meal, the better.
In a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, volunteers who consumed 22 to 55 percent of their total calories at breakfast gained just 1.7 pounds on average over four years. Those who ate zero to 11 percent of their calories in the morning gained nearly three pounds. In another study published in the same journal, volunteers who reported regularly skipping breakfast had 4.5 times the risk of obesity than those who took their time eating.