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If a lean body is your goal then you should be excited to hear that just by eating a good breakfast you can increase your metabolism by as much as 10% throughout the entire day!
The mere act of eating breakfast can actually increase your metabolism and basically have your body burning more calories throughout the day then it normally would.
One of the best things you can eat at breakfast time is oatmeal because of the long chain carbohydrates that oatmeal contains. The long chain carbohydrates go into your system and because of their complexion they stay in your system for up to 8 hours!
That means your body has 8 hours to burn/utilize the oatmeal, long-chain carbohydrates as energy before converting them to fat. Compare that to the 30 minute life span simple sugars have in your stomach to be burned or utilized as energy prior to being converted to fat.
It should be pretty evident that long-chain or complex carbohydrates are superior to simple sugars because they give your body a long-term sustained form of energy that it can utilize throughout the day.
A typical breakfast for me is a bowl of oatmeal and a glass of orange juice.
The orange juice is a great addition to the oatmeal because it contains some simple sugars which can be quickly utilized by the body to replenish it’s glycogen stores after a long night without food.
Again, if a lean body is your goal then I strongly consider you begin every day with a healthy breakfast that includes some form of complex carbohydrates and some form of simple sugar and just watch your metabolism skyrocket!
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If maintaining a high level of personal fitness is important to you then getting a good nights sleep on a consistent basis should be pretty high on your priority list…
Research and studies have shown that people who sleep well perform better and have quicker reaction times then those who sleep less then the average recommended 6-7 hours per night.
And that’s just for sedentary folks…
Folks like you and me who work out at the gym or maintain home fitness programs need sleep that much more because when we sleep our body’s are recovering from whatever workouts we’ve put them through.
If you’ve been reading this Blog for any length of time then you know how important I think working out with weights is to your personal fitness… well all of your hard work in the gym or in your home fitness program will be completely for not if you don’t get adequate sleep.
Sleep (recovery) is only 1/3 of the personal fitness puzzle and you need all three aspects of the personal fitness puzzle in order to achieve a high level of personal fitness… Along with sleep/recovery you also need to exercise and have a good, clean diet.
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That’s right I said speed up your metabolism by eating more…
Now that doesn’t mean you can eat everything under the sun whenever you want but if you increase the number of meals you eat from the 2 or 3 you’re eating right now to 4-6 per day then you will in deed speed up your metabolism and burn more calories every single minute of the day.
I know, I know… the first time I read about this several years ago I was floored myself but here’s how it works:
Your body’s first and foremost directive is to keep you alive. Contrary to what some people believe it’s not to keep your stomach flat and keep you looking good for the opposite sex. So when you starve your body and eat like one meal a day you’re basically forcing your body to store everything you eat as fat so that it’ll have something to burn as energy (the fat stored in your butt and belly most likely) during that long period of time between your next meal…
You can eliminate your body’s pension to store the food you eat as fat by feeding your body every 2-3 hours or by eating approximately 6 meals a day. By eating and feeding your body every few hours, you’re basically telling your body that it will get fed every few hours and after a while your body will recognize that it no longer needs to store fat for future use.
The end result is your body will utilize most or all of the food you eat and whatever your body doesn’t use… well you know.
Mix in a little exercise and a clean diet and you’ll be looking like you did at 21!
Speed up your metabolism by eating more… who knew?
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