Metabolism and Your Weight

 Your metabolism is the most important and primary factor to understand when it comes to gaining or losing weight. Your metabolism is responsible for converting energy from the food we eat, eliminating unnecessary nutrients from our body, and storing glucose and extra energy as fat for use in the future.

The right nutritional intake and activity keeps our bodies at the weight they should be. Your metabolism also affects your body fat ratio.

A very important point to keep in mind is that if you force yourself to stop eating and deprive yourself of essential nutrients your body will go into the starvation mode, which is your body will naturally try to keep the fat and use the liver’s glycogen supply for energy. Your metabolism shuts down because nothing is fueling it, and you will be hungry.

If you want to be healthy and lean, you MUST burn fat and build muscle. This is a FACT, no questions about it. If you are starving yourself on diets you are throwing off your metabolism forcing it to shut down.

You need to look at the chemistry that is happening in your body and understand that there is a whole system working inside of your body.

If you are going to get lean and firm you will not do it by starving your body and essentially turning your metabolism off.