We all want to be at a healthy weight in order to look and feel our best. But most of the time, maintaining our happy/healthy weight is easier said than done.

In order to lose weight, we need our metabolism to be working at top speed. It's pretty simple, actually: when we eat food, it's either stored in our body as fat or burned for energy, and your metabolism is the series of complex processes that turn the foods we eat into energy. Therefore, when we want to maintain or lose weight, instead of restricting calories and being tired and hungry all the time, we want to focus on how we can speed up this fat-burning process.

Here a few ways of how to implement it into your daily life:

1. Drink More Water

This tip makes sense when you learn that over half of your body is made up of water. You lose water through eating, sweating, and breathing, so it is absolutely necessary to be adequately hydrated. Plus, drinking at least eight cups of water a day can burn close to 20,000 extra calories a year.

2. Try intermittent fasting

Limiting your food intake to certain periods of time can stabilize blood sugar and decrease inflammation, which both encourage fat burning. Fasting also lowers your hunger hormone ghrelin to help curb cravings for inflammatory, sugary foods. You need to drink a lot water during your fasting periods.

3. Don't be afraid of fat

By limiting your carbohydrate intake and upping your healthy fats, you’ll turn your body from a sugar-burner to a fat-burner. This means that you train your metabolism to move away from relying on glucose for fuel, and instead, your body will now turn to its fat stores for energy. This ends up using up more energy overall while preserving muscle at the same time. A ketogenic diet that focuses on lots of healthy fat, moderate protein, and fewer carbohydrates is a great tool to make sure you are getting in the right macronutrients for your body.

4. Drink more tea

Thermogenesis is a bodily process that produces heat, and it can also increase the number of calories you burn. Certain compounds in foods contain naturally occurring thermogenic nutrients. Catechins in green tea can boost fat-burning between 10 and 16 percent, which is one more reason to make more matcha.

5. Embrace spices

Spicy foods such as chili peppers contain a compound known as capsaicin, which has been shown to speed up metabolism, burn fat, and reduce appetite.

6. Sweat it out

Infrared saunas are able to penetrate your skin barrier in order to raise your core temperature directly instead of regular saunas that have to heat the air first in order for that to heat you. Research conducted by one of the leading infrared sauna companies showed that regular use over three months contributed to noticeable weight loss. Since you’ll also be sweating, which is your body’s way of releasing toxins, you’ll also be detoxing and lowering inflammation that can contribute to common health problems. So treat yourself!

7. Add in a probiotic

Your gut controls almost every aspect of your health, including your weight. Research has linked a lower microbiome diversity to being overweight, and people who struggle with weight loss resistance are more likely to have higher amounts of the bad bacteria Actinobacteria and Firmicutes and lower amounts of the beneficial bacteria Bacteroides, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, and Verrucomicrobia. Luckily, lots of fermented foods and a probiotic with bifidobaceria, enterococcus, and lactobacillus has been shown to positively affect the microbiome and can help re-colonize the gut with good bacteria.

8. Join intense training

Muscle burns more energy than fat, so the more muscle you have, the more calories you’ll burn, even when you are sitting still. Strength training can also improve resting metabolic rate, which boosts metabolism. Try our Ballet Body Sculpture workout classes : www.balletbodysculpture.com

9. Limit your alcoholic drinks

Each time you drink alcohol, your body has to stop and take time to metabolize it by filtering it through your liver, causing your metabolism to slow down since it is taking energy away from metabolizing fats and sugars. In fact, after just one alcoholic beverage, your fat burning is decreased by 73 percent.

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