Best Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

MB900409390Looking for fitness over 40 tips that really work? As we age, our metabolism slows down. The key to fighting weight gain in your 40s is to daily boost your metabolism. The following are the best tricks for boosting your metabolism. We specifically choose tips that small enough to feel doable, are easy to work into your daily life and will make a difference in your weight management efforts.

Metabolism Boost Tip #1: Replace Alcoholic Beverages With Water
Studies show that consumption of alcohol results in a drop in metabolic rate (usually the day after.) That means that even a glass of wine in the evening may lower your metabolism the next day, which is especially bad news for daily drinkers.

Conversely, your body metabolizes most effectively if you are properly hydrated. Water is the premium source of hydration (alcohol dehydrates.) If plain old water is too boring, try seltzer water or adding a slice of citrus fruit, sprig of mint or a couple of berries to your glass of water.

If you can’t bring yourself to cut alcohol out of your diet altogether, make a pact with yourself that you’ll drink at least one full glass of water for every alcoholic beverage you consume. This will help you cut down on your total alcoholic consumption while protecting your hydration level. It will also keep you feeling full, which will help you cut down on how much you snack.

Metabolism Boost Tip #2: Go For a Daily Walk Outside Over Your Lunch Break
Experts tell us that exposure to the sun helps our bodies maintain a healthy metabolism, whereas extended periods of time inside (or in a dark or artificially lit environment) stimulates our body to lower metabolism.

A brisk walk boosts your metabolism, even if it’s only a short walk. The exposure to sunshine will also boost your metabolism, and the resulting mood enhancement from being out in the sun (and getting some vitamin D) will decrease tendencies for emotional overeating.

A daily walk will also lower your stress level, which prevent your body from overproducing cortisol. Your body produces cortisol when stressed, and excess cortisol tells your body to hang onto excess fat.

Metabolism Boost Tip #3: Replace Fattening Beverages With Tea or Coffee
Drinking black coffee, green tea, oolong tea and kombacha tea will rev your metabolism while delivering appetite-satisfying flavors into your diet. Green tea and oolong tea are both known to boost your metabolism while delivering antioxidants. Kombacha tea is detoxifying, which means it will help your body function optimally, including improving your body’s ability to process calories and flush out excess fat.

If you currently drink juice, coffee with cream and/or sugar, energy drinks or soda, you are drinking a lot of extra calories each day. Diet drinks also have been linked to weight gain (the artificial sweetener triggers a craving to eat more calories, resulting in higher caloric consumption over the course of the day), so you’re best off drinking water, tea or black coffee all day.

Metabolism Boost Tip #4: Add a Little Extra Spice or Supplement to Meals
The following spices and supplements have been proven to increase your metabolism. These spices and supplements are easy to add to meals (or to take along with meals.) They are simple ways to painlessly (and even deliciously) boost your metabolism.

• Cinnamon – Available to sprinkle onto food or into beverages or to take as a supplement (capsule form)
• Ginger – Can add a shot to tea, smoothies, or to food (especially delicious in stir fry)
• Hot peppers – Choose from any of the spicy peppers and sprinkle onto your meal or add chopped peppers to dishes
• Vitamin C – Take a supplement or add vitamin C rich ingredients to recipes
• Vitamin B – Take as a supplement or add vitamin B rich ingredients to recipes

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Have you found successful ways to boost your metabolism? Are you fitness over 40 victory story? Tell us how you’ve managed to lose weight, maintain your fitness or otherwise beat the battle of the bulge.


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