Weight Loss

ITH hypnotherapy you can increase your metabolic rate for weight loss. We have all heard it or even said it before: "I'm not able to lose weight because of my metabolism." It is easy to blame our 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 encompasses each of the chemical and physical changes that take place within the cells of the body. Most often, though, metabolism refers to the manner in which the body acquires and uses energy from what we eat, so it really does play an important part 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 we turn 40, and by sex, as males have a tendency to burn more calories at rest than females, and by the amount 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 decides to breast-feed.

Regardless of all of the wild cards, the fact is that when your calorie intake surpasses your metabolism, excess energy will get housed in the body as fat. Though many of the aspects affecting metabolic rate can't be helped, thankfully, there are methods to rev up the metabolism you are born with.

The first guideline is to consume the correct foods in the right quantities. When you omit a meal, your body switches to starvation mode, which slows metabolism to save calories, because it does not know when it will get to eat again. And when the metabolism slows, so does your weight loss.

When you finally do get food after having skipped a meal, instead of burning the calories in the food you have just eaten, your body transfers them to body fat to hold for the next "fast." To keep your metabolism efficient, eat 4 - 6 smaller meals over the course of the day and try 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 training. Aerobic activities, such as biking, dancing and running, use more calories in the short term, while weight training will create more muscle, which increases metabolism and burns more calories in the long term - even when you are resting, muscle uses more calories to function than fat.

In fact, each pound of muscle burns 35 calories a day, while each pound of fat burns 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.

NLP can be just as imperative as exercise and motivation because, as you learned above, it can help make sure that you eat the right kinds of foods at the right times, and this is a vital part of turbo-charging your metabolism. If you want to keep your metabolism at full speed and make sure that all of your exercise and hard work aren't being wasted by succumbing to your food temptations, weight loss hypnosis and NLP can be a secret weapon to eliminate your cravings once and for all.