Your body has it’s own personal trainer, working around the clock to help you burn kilojoules and lose fat. It’s called your metabolism and its the sum of everything your body does. There are a bunch of lifestyle changes you can do to help boost your metabolism, make your body run more efficiently, and reach your weight-loss and fitness goals faster.

  1. Pesticides In Produce
    Chemicals in pesticides can interfere with your body’s energy-burning process and make it harder to lose weight, according to a Canadian study. Researcher found that people who consumed more toxins in their diet had a harder time losing weight.
  2. Sitting Too Long
    According to ergonomics researcher Carrie Schmitz It takes 20 minutes in any fixed position to inhibit your metabolism. Nutritionist Lisa Jubilee says that one way to burn more calories daily is to stand more and sit less. She cites a British study which found that standing at work burned 50 more calories per hour than sitting. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, consider this: If you stand for just three hours of your day, in one year you’d expend more than 30,000 extra calories.
  3. Dehydration
    For nutritionist Lisa Jubilee, one of the best and cheapest ways to give your metabolism a jolt is to drink water shortly after waking because during sleep, your body’s metabolic function slows down, and unless you wake up in the middle of the night to drink some water, your body hasn’t receive any fluids. Jubilee suggests completely re-hydrating before stressing your body with any other food or drink. All of your body’s cellular processes, including metabolism, depend on water. If you’re dehydrated, you could burn up to two percent fewer kilojoules.
  4. To much alcohol
    When your body has a cocktail to break down, it takes precedence over any food that you’ve already eaten that’s waiting to be digested. This slows down the entire metabolic process. In fact, some researchers claim boozing can decrease the body’s fat-burning ability by up to 73 percent! On the occasions that you decided to indulge, stick to low-calorie drinks. Alternate your alcohol with water to slow your pace, and limit yourself to two drinks.
  5. Go to sleep earlier.
    Even if you eat the exact same diet as your friend, if you’re not getting the sleep your body needs, you won’t drop as much fat as them “A lack of sleep can cause several metabolic problems,” says nutritionist Seth Santoro. “It can cause you to burn fewer calories, lack appetite control and experience an increase in cortisol levels, which stores fat.”

Reference taken from: Fitbie.com – www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/sleep-weight-loss,
www.eatthis.com/best-ways-to-speed-up-your-metabolism