Calories count, of course, but activity in the form of regular exercise is key to improving how your body uses and stores what you eat.
Introduce exercise into your day. Our research indicates that moderate exercise thirty minutes a day, along with mild weight loss aver-aging ten pounds, changes one’s metabolism. It also reduced the development of diabetes by as much as fifty-eight percent. This is surprising.
Take a brisk half-hour walk and watch your metabolism wake up. Sit on a park bench and do leg raises. Throw in a few toe touches (or almost-touches) and waist bends. Do it several times a week and the impact on your metabolism will be profound.
Sustain your level of activity over time.
Use exercise to burn off fat. Exercise triggers the body’s muscles to use up calories rather than store them as fat. Maintaining muscle mass also consumes more energy for the body. In the end, exercise is the key to maintaining weight loss
Other Factors that Can Slow You Down
How your body works is affected by more than doughnuts and sit-ups. For instance, metabolism speeds up, then slows down as we age.
Take nursing mothers, for example. Breastfeeding increases their metabolism and they must eat more to keep producing enough milk for their babies.
On the other hand, a woman’s engine slows down during menopause because of the huge drop in hormone production. This can lead to weight gain because testosterone helps metabolize fat. So eating what used to be normal amounts actually piles on the pounds.
By old age, many people slim down again and subsist on smaller amounts of food.
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