Speed up Metabolism - Speed up Your Weight Loss

You already know that exercise boosts your metabolism, of course. And we can not recommend highly enough that you do some type of aerobic activity every day, even if it's just walking up a few flights of stairs a few times a day at work, or taking a brisk walk on your lunch hour. If you do aerobic exercise, your metabolism remains higher for up to eight hours after you finish exercising!

And if you exercise enough to put on more muscle, so much the better. Muscle burns fat so if you can add on a few pounds of muscle you will burn fat faster.

To increase your natural weight loss follow these tips to lose weight quicker.

1.) Magnesium: Magnesium is necessary to keep your metabolism functioning properly. Magnesium can cause your metabolism to slow. (When you buy vitamin supplements, never take more than the recommended dose, however!)

2.) Vitamin B is another that is important for boosting your metabolism. B-12 in particular is known to give an energy boost and increase your metabolic rte.

3.) Spicy foods. Studies show that eating foods containing ingredients like black pepper, ginger, and chili peppers can boost your metabolism by as much as 8 percent for several hours after you eat them!

4.) Green Tea not only boosts your metabolism, studies show that it has health benefits including acting as an anti-oxidant and protecting against heart disease.

5.) Water. Being dehydrated will slow your metabolism. Even mild dehydration can cause your metabolism to slow down as much as three percent, in much the same way that cutting back on calories does. Metabolic activity slows when dehydrated. To feel fuller drink water. It will make you feel full and keep your body working properly.

If you follow these three rules with a decent diet you should be able to add a few pounds of weekly weight loss to your progress.

Exercise will only compound your results. Why are we fat when all we do is go to work... sit around all day. Then come home... sit around all night. I think it's pretty obvious why obesity is an epidemic.