Burning Fat and Your Metabolism
I came across a CBC article called “Your Metabolism, Burn Calories Burn“. It talked about how to calculate how many calories that you naturally burn in a day, but what I found to be the most important part was how to keep your metabolism revving so that you can burn more fat.
Here are some main points:
- You can’t change your basal metabolic rate (what you burn just to stay alive), but you can drastically change how many calories in a day you burn through increasing your activity.
- Muscle naturally burns calories and the more muscle you have, the higher your basal metabolic rate.
- The reason that your metabolism slows down as you age, is that you naturally lose muscle mass. You lose 2-3% of your entire muscle mass every decade after 30. (Each pound of muscle can add up to 50 cals/day to your basal metabolic rate)
Here are some tips:
- Eat 5 or 6 small meals throughout the day.
- Eat a balanced diet of all the food groups.
- Strength train to maintain your natural muscle mass.
- 20-30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise 5 times per week.
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