Metabolism!

On a nice starry night picture yourself by a campfire, imagine the flames emitting heat, making crackling and popping sounds fueled by various fire logs of different shapes and sizes. Everyone gathers around the fire to keep themselves warm. Can you see it? Do you have the image in your head? Well if not, here’s more. Imagine the flames flickering and dancing in the wind, sometimes you fear your fire may go out so you add another log. You poke the fire with a long stick you found to encourage the flames. As you all gather around and watch the fire, you notice the different colours, sometimes red, sometimes orange at times even white. Every so often you add more logs, noticing your fire is in danger of dying down. You appear to be running out of logs, you spot some cardboard lying close by, you hasten to fetch it and throw it into the fire. The cardboard instantaneously catches a fire and begins burning rapidly. The cardboard burns too quickly and once again, your fire is dying down but just in time your friend comes along with some new found logs for the fire. Over zealous, you make a mistake and add too many logs at once smothering your fire. It seems to be almost extinguished. You quickly remove one of the freshly added logs and your fire appears to be ok. The camp fire is warm and toasty to amuse yourself you throw different objects in to see how quickly they will burn. Why am I boring you to death with this camp fire story because it beautifully describes our metabolism.

Story Relevance

Our metabolism is like your bodies internal fire. To stoke your fire you need to add food (logs) every so often (3-31/2 hours) or your metabolism will slow down drastically just like a fire in danger of being extinguished. Our metabolism burns up anything we put in it just like the fire. We need to ensure we have quality logs (complex carbohydrates– veggies, brown rice...etc) on our fire to produce heat . Stoking our fire with cardboard (simple carbohydrates, cakes, white rice...etc) will be easily burned and no good to the longevity of our internal fire. We have to be careful not to have meal portions that are too large or we run the risk of smothering our internal fire which will slow down metabolism as well. It is very important to protect our metabolism. Simply put it’s the speed at which our body burns through food. Why is burning through food quickly important? Ok, we all know somebody with a fast metabolism that can eat anything and remain skinny and it is true that genetically some of us have an advantage but a big part of our metabolism is how we take care of it. We create our metabolism by how we eat. Some one with a slow metabolism takes long to burn through food and is more likely to store it as fat. So, it’s advantageous to speed your metabolism up. A critical piece of the puzzle in the war against fat loss.

Conclusion

I hope now you understand the importance of metabolism. For the next couple of days if your goal is fat loss I want you to speed up your metabolism. I want you to eat roughly 6 meals per day moderate size every 3-31/2 hrs. Meals should consist of protein, starchy carbohydrate and a fibrous carbohydrate. Every one can have a fast metabolism, go ahead and take charge. For more info on meal examples read “Fitness Survival Guide”.


Make it a great day!

Chris Walker

Kitchener's Weight Loss expert!

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