6 Tips to Speed up your Metabolism

Do you want to speed up your metabolism? Look no further! For many people, they would like to speed up their metabolism to lose more body fat and maintain a healthy digestive track. Below are 6 tips to speed up your metabolism.

1. Prunes

Prunes promote weight loss and improves digestion from the fiber it contains. They also help flush out toxins and waste in your body, resulting in better digestion and gut health. When there is better digestion and gut health, your metabolism moves faster.

2. Green Tea with Lemon Water

Green tea and lemon breaks down and processes fat faster. They both work together with hot water to enhance fat burning properties, thus resulting in a faster metabolism. Be sure to squeeze half a lemon into your green tea.

3. Eat every 2-4 hours

When you are constantly feeding your body food every 2-4 hours, it keeps your metabolism running and gets it in the habit to run faster to keep up with the food entering your body. When you do not eat often, your body goes into starvation mode and stores any fat in your body longer. Your metabolism will slow down because it wants to conserve everything in your body. But, when you eat every few hours, it keeps the cycle of your metabolism going strong and processes the food in your body faster.

4. Strength Train

After you are done strength training, your resting metabolism rate increases. To increase your resting metabolism rate even more, be sure to push yourself while strength training so you become sore after. When you are sore after your workout, your body uses fat as an energy source to recover, thus resulting in a faster metabolic rate.

6. Water, water, and more water!

Having the right amount of water a day fuels your body. Think of it like this, your car needs oil to function. Without that oil, the car will shut down. This is the same for your body. Water is the fuel for your body and without it your metabolic rate will not be at its full potential. The lack of water in your body will not allow you to burn as much fat as you normally would. Have 8 cups to a gallon of water a day (varies from person to person) to keep your metabolism running at its full potential.

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