Power Up Your Metabolism For Quick Weight Loss With Hypnosis CDs

We have all heard it or even said it one time or another: "I'm not able to lose weight because of my metabolism." It is easy to blame our extra fat on an abstract idea like metabolism, but let's look at the real importance of metabolism - and better yet, how to get the most "burn" for your buck by recharging your metabolism.

In the most fundamental sense, metabolism includes all of the chemical and physical changes that happen inside the cells of the body. Most often, however, metabolism refers to the manner in which the body gets and uses energy from food, so it really does have an important function in weight gain and loss.

Not everyone has the same metabolism, and our rates actually change over the course of our lives, so someone who blames their metabolism is not necessarily making excuses. Age affects metabolism, which will slow about 5% every 10 years after we turn 40, and by sex, as males have a tendency to burn more calories at rest than females, and by the quantity of muscle mass you possess (more muscle generally means a higher rate of metabolism). Heredity also affects metabolism, not to mention pregnancy, as well as whether a woman decides to breast-feed.

In spit of all of the wild cards, the fact is that if your calorie intake surpasses your metabolism, surplus energy will get housed in the body as fat. Though many of the issues affecting metabolic rate cannot be changed, thankfully, there are ways to rev up the metabolism you're born with.

The first directive is to eat the correct foods in the correct quantities. When you omit a meal, your body switches to starvation mode, which slows metabolism to keep calories, because it does not know when it will get food again. And when the metabolism slows, so does the rate at which you lose weight.

When you finally do eat after having skipped a meal, instead of using the calories in the food you've just had, your body transfers them to body fat to store for the next "fast." To keep your metabolism efficient, eat 4 - 6 smaller meals spread evenly throughout the day and aim to eat close to the same times every day. Most importantly, never skip a meal.

You can also step up your metabolic rate with exercise, including both aerobic routines and weight training. Aerobic activities, such as dancing, biking and running, burn more calories in the short term, while weight training will create more muscle, which increases metabolism and burns more calories in the long term - even when you're resting, muscle requires more calories to function than fat.

In fact, every pound of muscle uses 35 calories a day, while every pound of fat uses only 2 calories per day. Despite this, you may be surprised that the more weight you posses, the faster your metabolism is likely to run. Simply put, the extra weight makes your body work more to maintain its processes.

This is partly why it's nearly always easiest to lose weight when you begin dieting, and becomes challenging as you continue because, when you are significantly overweight, your metabolism is already at an elevated rate, so that even a slight cutback in calories will bring about an immediate weight loss.

But what happens after that immediate loss, when a plateau occurs and motivation seems to go by the "weigh" side? Old compulsions and cravings can suddenly come back, and when they do, don't neglect a valuable resource - weight loss hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy can actually retrain your unconscious mind so that, in essence, you can eliminate food cravings. When we examine why we snack, realizing why weight loss hypnosis works so well becomes evident.

For many of us, snacking has become a habit - maybe you do it automatically when you're watching TV or driving or when you're under stress. Hypnosis can actually reprogram your thoughts to stop those associations, leaving you to watch TV or drive without experiencing the need to eat.

One of the most successful weight loss hypnosis techniques for breaking the snacking cycle is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, which relies on negotiating with the unconscious mind and making it use the same thought processes that are creating your appetite, to eliminate your appetite. NLP entails many years of study and practical experience for a hypnotherapist to learn and master, but positive results can come very rapidly and seem almost magical to someone who has always experienced cravings.

NLP can be just as vital as exercise and motivation because, as you learned above, it can help ensure that you eat the right kinds of foods at the right times, and this is an important ingredient for turbo-charging your metabolism. If you want to keep your metabolism at full speed and ensure that all of your exercise and hard work are not going to waste by yielding to your food temptations, weight loss hypnosis and NLP can be a secret weapon to eliminate your cravings once and for all.

Are you overweight and a casualty of your metabolism? Then you will be relieved to learn that it's now possible to step up your metabolic rate, burn more calories, and lose weight at a steady pace without taking drugs of any kind!

Alan B. Densky, CH has worked with clients for weight loss and appetite control since 1978. Visit his self-hypnosis website to view his Free hypnotherapy videos, or learn about his exclusive lose weight through hypnosis CDs or his powerful video lose weight by hypnosis DVDs.

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