A Healthy Metabolism Is What You Need To Lose Weight

     Many people who are overweight worry about numbers on a bathroom scale, body mass index or some height/weight chart. They really should be more concerned about their need to improve their metabolic fitness as this is the key to living a healthier lifestyle. Even if you are overweight you can get yourself healthier.

'Health at any size' is having metabolic fitness which refers to the ability of the body to burn fuel (food/calories) for energy rather than storing them as excess body fat. When you are metabolically fit you will be burning fat even when you are resting as well as during exercise and activity as your body's engine is finely tuned and running properly.

Focusing on weight loss alone as the weight loss industry would have everyone do, so we can continue to shell out billions of dollars each year seems counterproductive. It can be quite hazardous to health to continually battle weight problems by going about it the wrong way. Despite our continuing efforts to lose weight, waistlines are getting bigger, not smaller. It seems that whatever is lost is gained back, and then some.

Chronic fluctuations and yo-yoing of body weight can not only be physically harming it can be damaging to self-esteem and mental health as well. This situation can increase risk of premature death primarily from heart disease yet it is believed that weight loss improves health. But this is not always the case.

You could liken the weight loss industry trying to make people thin like a runaway freight train when it would be more sensible to focus on getting people strong, fit and healthy as that is the long term solution to losing weight. This new approach needs to gain momentum and more emphasis be placed on a healthy metabolism and balanced hormones and less emphasis on body weight.

We have a new understanding of the impact on proper exercise and its positive affect on the muscular system of the human body. This understanding places less importance on calories burnt during an exercise session and more on what happens long after the exercise session is over. Only by working the muscles through their ranges of movement under a load can we boost metabolism so it processes our food better and burns it up for energy rather than parking it on our bellies where is becomes a major threat to health.
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We need to put aside the old fashioned notion that all we need to do is long slow endurance activities like walking, jogging or cycling as these things do not stimulate the metabolic rate to any degree after the session is over. Only strength building and maintaining exercise can do this and to lose weight successfully for the long term the metabolic rate must be increased.

Fat burning hormones can only be stimulated with direct muscular activity such as when we target them with proper exercise. It is these hormones that determine where, when and how the food/calories we eat are utilized. More long slow activity or restrictive food diets and the very last things that will get us a fat burning healthy metabolism as they both work against the body not with it.

If you have a weight problem try this new approach and get yourself healthy by getting started or restarted on your strength training program at your local gym or fitness center. Having the help of a fitness professional will accelerate your results

Boosting your fat burning rate with strong toned muscles is the easiest and most healthy way to lose excess weight. When you have healthy muscles you have a higher level of 'metabolic fitness' and it is only a matter of time that your lean, slim and trim body will reveal itself.

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