Effective Weight Loss - It's All About the Metabolism, Eating Right

Most people do not understand much about losing weight. They get bogged down by searching for the fastest way to shed that few pounds. The most common is that they factor in a lot of cardiovascular exercises and neglect their diet; that is they prefer to starve themselves with the incorrect mindset that eating less will make them slimmer. In a sense, that is right. Eating less makes you slimmer. But for effective weight loss, eating right is priority.

When we talk about metabolism, we mean the mechanism in your body that propels food digestion, shedding the excess weight that is stored on the walls on your stomach, churning them into fats. How then, do we speed up this mechanism, making it propel faster?

Let's start off first with a proper diet. First off, keep your meals small and healthy. Forget about fast food for awhile. You don't want to spend 4 hours jogging off that Big Mac!

Have your meals in intervals of significant 3 to four hours. (And by significant I mean from the time you stop eating to the time you start again). Yes you must be thinking, if I have a meal every 3 to 4 hours, I am eating close to 5 meals a day! That's right! We want to keep your metabolism running!

Let's say, for example, we start the day with a healthy choice of finesse cereal and a banana (fibers from banana helps you defecate). With a light breakfast, you are bound to feel hungry approximately 3 to 4 hours later, and it's probably time for lunch. Take a trip to the nearest cafe (or supermarket if you've got the time) and order a healthy salad, top it up with some boiled chicken strips, or smoked salmon slices if you must but keep off anything fried and make sure that salad dressing is low fat! There you go, who says you've got to stuff yourself trying to lose weight.

After the next interval, you're bound to feel hungry again. Treat yourself to a cookie from Mrs Fields. Just one won't hurt. And then it's probably time for dinner. Don't be afraid to have a steak for dinner, topped with a side salad and a healthy glass of red wine (but I do reckon you shouldn't put this on your list during the first week of diet). After dinner, take an hour or two break and then have some apple and orange cubes.

The rationale behind this diet is that you are eating small intakes of food that are neither fat nor unhealthy. These food digest quickly and fats won't stick to the walls of your stomach and form a flabby belly. Eating small meals in 3 to 4 hour intervals helps to keep the metabolism running, not forgetting to couple it with a great variation of cardiovascular exercises. Keep up with the routine and you're bound to shed that few pounds in a matter of 2 to 3 weeks!

Lee is a Muay Thai practitioner and runs the website http://themusclemind.com

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