What are the best ways to increase my metabolism?
Apart from creating a calorie deficit, a main factor in your weight loss effort lays in optimizing your metabolism. Metabolism is made up of three primary components: – Resting metabolism rate – or the rate at which your body burns calories when resting (RMR accounts for 60-75% of all calorie-burning processes), – Thermic effect of physical activity (TEPA accounts for 15-30% of daily calorie burn depending on your activity level), – Thermic effect of feeding (TEF accounts for approximately 10% of daily calorie burn). It is therefore clear that the two natural ways to increase your metabolism is to adjust your eating habits, and to get active. When your body gets any reason to require more energy, such as when you eat (your body uses energy to digest your food – TEF) or exercise, your metabolism will speed up to supply that energy, by either using glucose that exists in your system, or by turning to your fat stores if no glucose is present. How can I increase my metabolism naturally and
