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| Amplify Your Metabolism For Swift Weight Loss With NLP CDs |
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Alan Densky |
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We've all heard it or even said it one time or another: "I can't lose weight because of my metabolism." It's convenient to blame our unwanted weight on an abstract idea like metabolism, but let's learn about the real importance of metabolism - and better yet, how to get the most "burn" for your buck by recharging your metabolism.
In the most basic sense, metabolism encompasses each of the chemical and physical changes that happen within the body's cells. Most often, however, metabolism refers to the manner in which the body gets and uses energy from what we eat, so it really does have an important function in weight loss and gain.
Not everyone is born with the same metabolism, and our rates actually vary during our lives, so someone who blames their metabolism is not necessarily making excuses. Age affects metabolism, which will slow about 5% every 10 years after age 40, and by gender, as males typically burn more calories at rest than females, and by the amount of muscle mass you have (more muscle generally means a higher metabolic rate). Our genes also impacts metabolism, not to mention having children, as well as whether a woman chooses to breast-feed.
In spit of all of the wild cards, the fact is that if your calorie intake exceeds your metabolism, surplus energy will get housed in the body as fat. Though some of the aspects affecting metabolic rate cannot be altered, thankfully, there are methods to rev up the metabolism you are born with.
The first guideline is to eat the right foods in the correct amounts. When you omit a meal, your body turns on starvation mode, which slows metabolism to conserve calories, because it does not know when it will get to eat again. And when the metabolism slows down, so does your weight loss.
When you finally do eat food after skipping a meal, instead of burning the calories in the food you've just eaten, your body transfers them to body fat to hold for the next "fast." To keep your metabolism efficient, eat 4 - 6 small meals spread evenly throughout the day and aim to eat close to the same times each day. Most importantly, never skip a meal.
You can also step up your metabolic rate with exercise, including both aerobic workouts and weight lifting. Aerobic activities, such as biking, dancing and running, use more calories in the short term, while weight lifting will build more muscle, which improves metabolism and burns more calories in the long term - even when you are resting, muscle uses more calories to function than fat.
In fact, every pound of muscle burns 35 calories per day, while each pound of fat burns only 2 calories per day. Despite this, you might be surprised that the more weight you have, the faster your metabolism is likely to run. Simply put, the extra weight forces your body work harder to maintain its processes.
This is partially why it's nearly always easiest to drop weight when you start dieting, and becomes more difficult as you go along because, if you are significantly overweight, your metabolism is already at a high rate, so that even a minor decrease in calories will lead to an immediate weight loss.
But what happens after that immediate loss, when a plateau occurs and motivation seems to go by the "weigh" side? Old cravings and compulsions can suddenly return, and when they do, do not ignore a valuable resource - lose weight self-hypnosis. Hypnotherapy can actually retrain your unconscious so that, in essence, you can do away with food cravings. When we study why we snack, understanding why weight loss hypnosis works so well becomes clear.
For many of us, snacking has become a habit - perhaps you do it mindlessly when you are driving or watching TV or when you are under stress. Hypnosis can actually reprogram your thoughts to stop those associations, leaving you to watch TV or drive without having the need to eat.
One of the most successful weight loss hypnosis techniques for curbing the snacking cycle is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, which relies on negotiating with the unconscious and making it use the same thought processes that are creating your appetite, to eliminate your appetite. NLP takes many years of study and practical experience for a hypnotherapist to learn and master, but positive results can come very quickly and seem almost magical to someone who has always experienced cravings.
NLP can be equally as imperative as motivation and exercise because, as you read above, it can help ensure that you eat the proper kinds of foods at the right times, and this is a vital aspect of turbo-charging your metabolism. If you wish to keep your metabolism at full speed and ensure that all of hard work and exercise are not being wasted by surrendering to your food temptations, weight loss hypnosis and NLP can be a secret weapon to eliminate your cravings altogether.
Alan B. Densky, CH has worked with clients for weight loss and appetite control since 1978. Visit his hypnosis website to enjoy his Free self-hypnosis videos, or learn about his exclusive lose weight hypnosis CDs or his powerful video self-hypnosis losing weight DVDs.
http://www.neuro-vision.us/AppetiteControl1.html |
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