Drink Green Tea - It Increases Your Metabolism

Drinking green tea is one of the easiest ways to rev up your metabolism. A study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that green tea-extract increases the metabolism by 4% over a 24 hour period.

Three to five cups a day can help you burn an extra 70 calories a day, which adds up to seven pounds a year, 35 pounds for five years and 70 pounds for 10 years.

Green tea has also been shown to inhibit fat absorption—the movement of glucose into fat cells, [support healthy] glucose levels after eating a meal, prevent insulin spikes which prevents fat storage, and reduce appetite.

Think three to five cups a day seems like a lot? Replace diet soda with my recipe for “green tea soda.” Spoon instant green tea into sparkling water like Perrier or club soda and you have a refreshing, bubbly drink. It’s great to get you through the 3:00pm slump, when you otherwise might reach for a soda or sugary snack. - Rebekah Baumgardner, BodyBuilding.Com

Fit Tip: Lift Weights

Fit tit: Lift Weights

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Metabolism Counts

Lifting weights increases your body's metabolic rate and keeps it raised long after the activity is completed. Weight training increases muscle – the more muscle you have the higher your metabolism - the higher your metabolism the quicker you burn calories.

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Maintain Muscle Mass

If you maintain muscle mass while losing weight you'll look better and feel better.

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Muscle Looks Smaller Than Fat

It's the fat on your body that makes you look fat. Muscle tissue looks smaller in size than fat of an equivalent weight. The more muscle you have the higher your metabolism will be and the more fat you will burn.

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Starvation Diets Do Not Work

It can seem that a drastic reduction of calories is a viable method to shed pounds quickly but this is not a long term solution. The only long term solution to weight gain is to find ways to develop new habits. Take it slowly, change one thing about your eating and exercise at a time. Don't try to change all your habits at once. Habit change is the key.

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Understand The Importance Of Exercise

Exercise is very, very important to your health, weight loss and general well being. Think long and hard about the benefits of exercise in your own life....The stronger your "Why?" the greater your "How?".

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Drink Green Tea

A study performed at the Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh UK, looked at the effects of short-term green tea consumption on a group of students between the ages of 19–37. Participants were asked not to alter their diet and to drink 4 cups of green tea per day for 14 days. The results showed that short-term consumption of commercial green tea reduces Blood Pressure, cholesterol, body fat and body weight. -Wikipedia

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Stop The Skip & Binge Cycle

Stop the skip and binge cycle. To break the cycle, eat smaller, regular, healthy, lower calorie meals throughout the day.

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Blast The Fat With Intensity And Speed

You can  blast the fat quicker by raising the intensity or speed of your training.

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Increasing Muscle Mass Increases BMR

Increasing muscle mass increases BMR.
BMR: Basal Metabolic Rate - The amount of energy (calories) used by a human being at rest.

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