Do you want to jump start your metabolism?

How do you jump start your metabolism and take off that extra weight?

If your metabolism is too slow you'll never lose weight. You won't feel like eating right and you won't feel like doing much of anything.

Some are impossible

Like this one: choose different parents.

That's right. If you had different parents you might have been born with a super fast metabolism. Like one of those long distance runners.

Or that friend of yours that can eat all she wants and never gains an ounce. Oh well.

Some are dangerous

You can take drugs. There are illegal drugs that speed up the metabolism. Cocaine. Speed.

And there are legal drugs that speed up your metabolism, at least for a little while. But these can be dangerous too.

Ephedrine, a stimulant found in many diet pills, was banned by the United States Food and Drug Commission when it received reports of deaths, heart attack and stroke. The ban was later lifted for low dose ephedrine, and it is now available.

But the point is that drugs used for weight loss can be dangerous. And besides that, they don't really work.

Some require some effort

You can exercise. Exercise burns up calories while you are doing it.

Exercise also speeds up your metabolism so you continue to burn up more calories throughout the day.

And it adds muscle, and lean muscle uses more energy than fat, so that burns up the calories too.

The only problem with exercise? You have to do it. And while any exercise is good, if you really want to put a fire under your metabolism, you have to increase the intensity.

Some are easy

You can change what you eat. And when you eat it.

This is by far the easiest, best thing that you can do to speed up your metabolism.

How do you do it? You eat more protein and you eat it more often.

Protein has a "specific dynamic action" which means that when you eat it, it causes your metabolism to speed up. The effect lasts a couple of hours.

So if you eat some protein every three hours your metabolism stays high. Now, isn't that about the easiest way you ever heard of to help take off weight?

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