At the age of 40, men, specifically women tend to slow down their metabolism because of the toxins that they have incurred over their lifetime. These toxins were an add up of preserve foods and beverages and of course the polluted air that we take in over the years. In order to lose fat, we have to speed up our metabolism because one of the downside of doing intermittent fasting is that it slows down our metabolism. This is because the body tends to preserve the energy within the body because it is not receiving enough supply to create energy. Flushing out toxins within the body equates to having an increased in metabolic rate. This is also equivalent to burning the fats in our body at the fastest rate.
WHAT TO EAT DURING EATING WINDOWS?:
1. Eat Spicy Foods during your eating window. Eating spicy foods can also suppress appetite. Peppers contain capsaicin, a substance that can boost your metabolism. However, many people can't tolerate these spices at the doses required to have a significant effect.
2. Eat Smart Carbs. These carbs such as sweet potato, bananas, squash, oats, beetroot, quinoa, buckwheat, barley and popcorn (food suppressant), black beans, amaranth are packed with nutrients. They can speed up metabolism, burn fat and helps you lose weight
3. Follow a good quality diet and Increase protein intake. This include unrefined, minimally processed foods such as vegetables and fruits, whole grains, healthy fats and healthy sources of protein. Take note how many ingredients are there with what you shop, If a product contains more than 5 ingredients, mostly it is not real food.4. Fiber. Eating foods with lots of fiber This is also considered to be a fat burning food.
5. Eat Bitter Melon (ampalaya). This vegetable kicks and supercharge your metabolism.
6. Cinnamon. Let say you gave in with the temptation of carbs within your diet, don’t fret and don’t be too hard on yourself because cinnamon comes to save the day. It literally helps your body stops from absorbing fat, sugar and calories.
7. Add Probiotics to Your Diet. Adding in probiotics through either food or supplements to your diet may help rev up fat burning and keep your weight under control.
8. Eat Detox Foods. There are 3 foods that are powerful in flushing toxins out of your body. Broccoli are a good source of DIM and placebo that flush out toxins on your body. Aside from being an antioxidant, ginger increases blood circulation and helps stimulates digestion. Your healthy digestion is essential to your detoxification. It also increases blood flow in your brain making you feel wide awake and focused. Lastly turmeric. It helps the liver flush out toxins. As long as you have a healthy liver, you never worry for weight loss to wither. Boost the effectivity of turmeric with black pepper because it enhances the turmeric levels that can be easily absorbed by the body. These 3 ingredients combined with a healthy diet will supercharge your weight loss. Metabolic greens flush….a product with this 3 ingredients.
WHAT TO DO DURING FASTING HOURS?:
1. Do Your Workouts During Fasting Periods. Working out forces the body to create energy in a rapid way. If the body is out of glucose reserves, it would immediately turn on to fats for creating energy. Just be cautious and don’t push yourself too hard if you are not feeling well doing this activity.
2. Build more muscles. A pound of muscle usually burns 50 calories per day. According to research, men burns more fat that women because of their body mass. The more muscles the body have, the more calories were burned. Doing mass-building exercises would be beneficial to help increase your metabolic rate.
3. Do not sleep within 2 hours after eating. Depending on your last meal, it usually takes 2 to 4 hours for the food to be digested. More fats would be stored if you don’t allow the food to be burned and digested properly before you sleep.
4. Drink Green/White Tea or Coffee Without Sugar. Drinking green or white tea and coffee have lots of benefits to your fat burning routine. White tea has almost no processing. So its naturally organic. It contains polyphenols that turns on your fat burning process. It also naturally suppresses appetite. Green tea help convert some of the fat stored in your body into free fatty acids, which may increase fat burning by 10–17%. Coffee on the other hand increase metabolic rate for about 3-11%. However its effect would decrease overtime because your body will adapt and decrease the amount of calories to burn.
5. Get enough sleep. Lack of sleep usually leads to obesity because it slows down metabolism.
6. Regulate your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) with your TDEE(Total Daily Energy Expenditure . You can go to this site to calculate and regularly check your BMR and TDEE
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