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Metabolism Magic - Diet Tricks Can Seed Up Your Weight Loss

We have all heard it or even said it before: "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 you can get the most "burn" for your buck by recharging your metabolism.

In the most fundamental sense, metabolism means each of the chemical and physical changes that happen within the cells of the body. Most often, though, metabolism refers to the process in which the body gets and uses energy from what we eat, so it really does play an important role in weight loss and gain.

Not everyone has the same metabolism, and our rates actually change over the course of our lives, so someone who blames their metabolism isn't necessarily making excuses. Age affects metabolism, which will slow about 5% every 10 years after age 40, and by gender, as males have a tendency to burn more calories at rest than females, and by the quantity of muscle mass you have (more muscle generally means a higher metabolic rate). Genetics also affects metabolism, not to mention pregnancy, as well as whether a woman chooses to breast-feed.

In spit of all of the wild cards, the simple fact is that if your calorie intake exceeds your metabolism, surplus energy will get stored in the body as fat. Though some of the aspects affecting metabolic rate can't be helped, fortunately, there are ways to rev up the metabolism you're born with.

The first tenet is to consume the correct foods in the correct amounts. When you skip a meal, your body goes into starvation mode, which slows metabolism to keep calories, because it does not know when it will be fed again. And when the metabolism slows, so does your weight loss.

When you finally do get food after skipping a meal, instead of burning the calories in the food you've just eaten, your body converts them to body fat to keep for the next "fast." To keep your metabolism efficient, eat 4 - 6 small meals during the day and aim to eat close to the same times every day. Most importantly, never skip a meal.

You can also step up your metabolic rate with exercise, including both aerobic workouts and strength training. Aerobic activities, such as running, biking and dancing, use more calories in the short term, while strength training will build more muscle, which improves metabolism and burns more calories in the long term - even when you're sitting still, muscle uses more calories to function than fat.

In fact, each pound of muscle requires 35 calories a day, while every pound of fat requires only 2 calories per day. Despite this, you may 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 more to maintain its processes.

This is partly why it is nearly always easiest to lose weight when you begin dieting, and gets harder as you continue because, if you are significantly overweight, your metabolism is already at a high rate, so that even a minor decrease in calories will bring about an immediate weight loss.

But what happens after that immediate loss, when a plateau occurs and motivation seems to go by the "weigh" side? Persistent cravings and compulsions can quickly come back, and when they do, do not overlook a valuable resource - weight loss hypnosis. Hypnotherapy can actually retrain your unconscious so that, in essence, you can get rid of food cravings. When we study why we snack, recognizing why weight loss hypnosis works so successfully becomes evident.

For most of people, snacking has become a habit - maybe you do it without thinking when you're watching TV or driving or when you are under stress. Hypnosis can actually reprogram your thoughts to break those associations, leaving you to drive or watch TV without feeling the need to eat.

One of the most successful lose weight hypnosis methods for breaking the snacking cycle is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, which relies on collaborating with the unconscious and getting it to 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 suffered from cravings.

NLP can be just as vital as motivation and exercise because, as you read above, it can help ensure that you eat the correct kinds of foods at the right times, and this is a key ingredient for turbo-charging your metabolism. If you aim to keep your metabolism at full speed and ensure that all of hard work and exercise are not going to waste by giving in 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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