Calcium can help weight loss and boost the metabolism; low to no-fat cottage cheese, milk, and yoghurt are good choices for meals or snacks. Some people swear by green tea. It is said to help remove toxins, so helping your metabolism can’t hurt.

Flax and fish oils supplements help to keep cholesterol levels balanced getting rid of the bad cholesterol and building up the good one has some effect on your metabolic rate.

Spicy foods are also supposed to increase metabolism. Remember though, any intake of food will boost the metabolism because the body gets right to work with the digestive process. This doesn’t last long so having five small meals a day or three meals and snacks between keep the metabolic process working harder.

It takes more energy to break down protein than it does to break down carbohydrates. Protein supplies nutrients needed to sustain muscle mass, so protein snacks will increase your metabolism. Instead of reaching for a sweet snack try some nuts, have a little peanut butter, some of the packaged fibre bars are tasty and have protein in them, read your labels though, some of them contain sugar (glucose.)

Cardio exercise is the best thing for boosting the metabolism. I know you hate cardio, so do I. Do a set of jumping jacks first thing in the morning, or take a 30-40 minute walk. It helps relieve you of stress, is low impact, gives you time to get out of the house to think and relax, and it is a great way to burn calories in the evening. It’s great to increase your evening metabolism, which naturally is lower than it was in the morning.

** POWERFUL TECHNIQUE #2 – Jump Up And Down

The best metabolism boosters are the ones that raise your body’s calorie burning rate for hours and hours. This is why cardiovascular exercises are some of the best metabolism boosters known to man. Getting in a good cardio workout not only burns many calories while you’re in action, it can actually raise your body’s metabolic rate for up to four hours after you’re done!

Even if you can’t take a whole hour or half hour out of your day to take a walk or hit the treadmill, you can still get your heart rate up enough to make a big difference in your metabolism. Every single time you jump up and down, you wake up the metabolism boosters in your system, and the effects will pay off when you step onto the scales.

If you can, try to slip in a few minutes of cardiovascular activity every hour or two throughout your day. That way, as soon as your metabolism starts to slow down, you’ll give it another jolt of activity and boost it again! Jumping up and down for even just sixty or ninety seconds per hour will keep your metabolism running at a higher speed all day long. There are many great reasons to get moving, but boosting your metabolism is one of the best, so get off your butt and jump around!

Even when you think you’re resting, your body is hard at work keeping everything going. Your system is making blood cells, your kidneys are working to eliminate waste, and your liver is cleansing toxins from your bloodstream.

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Exercise is Key

It is possible to eat great amounts of food, feel full and still lose weight. You just need to pick the right kinds of food to eat. A study at Pennsylvania University compared the weight loss of two types of dieters.

One group followed a diet that consisted mainly of food with high levels of water and fibre (essentially fruit and veg) while the other group went on a calorie-controlled diet. The group eating a high fibre diet lost more weight.

Filling up on vegetables and fruit is one of the best kept dieting secrets. As they are fat free you can easily eat as many as you like without feeling guilty. The three top vegetables in terms of health and nutritional benefits are kale, swiss chard and greens. These contain more vitamins and nutrients than any other vegetables.

The optimum diet consists of fruit and vegetables, nuts and seeds and lean protein. The fruit and veg will allow you to lose weight but you need lean protein to step up the metabolism.

Good examples of lean protein are: fish (especially salmon and fresh sardines), chicken and turkey, lean red meat and eggs.

The ideal amount of protein you should have for each meal is 30grammes. Your body needs to be able to digest the protein you put in, too much protein becomes toxic in the body, so if you add greens and salads to the protein the enzymes in the greens help to digest the proteins.

Some foods cause your body to store fat, i.e. foods that are high in sugar. Others force your metabolism to burn more stored fat for energy, like lean protein.

But before starting any new diet change, you need to clean out or detox your body, eliminate the build up of toxins.

A simple morning drink to help rid yourself of these toxins and to help with digestion is to squeeze 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon, (or lemon concentrate if you don’t have it), into a glass of water and mix with a pinch of cayenne pepper. Continue to drink 8 glasses of water throughout the day.