These are 10 simple secrets to boosting it big time.
- Exercise more often: This is the #1 way to keep your furnace cranking. The more muscle you have the more calories you burn all day.
- Kick up your Cardio: Aerobic intervals will help you maximize your burn, doubling the number of calories you burn during a workout.
- Put some muscle behind it: A head to toe strength routine will turbocharge your calorie-blasting quotient. Adding 5 pounds of muscle to your body can help you burn as many as 600 calories during your hour workout.
- Don't skip meals: To keep your engine running you need to have three healthy meals of 300 - 600 calories and tow snacks of 200 to 300 calories every day. *The American Dietetic Association
- Fill up on smart foods: Start by serving yourself protein at every sitting. Not only does your body need it to build lean muscle mass, but protein also takes more calories to digest.
- Eat breakfast: It will switch your metabolism from idle to high immediately. When you eat an A.M. meal your body is ready to turn those calories into muscle right away - the only time of the day this happens.
- Get off your butt: Sitting too much slows your metabolism, even if you are exercising regularly. An easy fix is to stretch, stroll, and fidget throughout the day.
- Go to bed earlier: When you deprive yourself of sleep you body goes into hunger mode and it makes you more likely to eat.
- Schedule a nighttime workout: Do a 20 - 30 minute moderate cardio routine before you hit the hay to keep your metabolism humming all night.
- Check your meds: If you recently started taking any new medication and the scale is inching upward, ask your doctor if there's an alternative treatment.
Good luck!
