In order to lose weight, it is important to find out about your metabolic type. If you struggle to lose weight, look at the foods you are consuming throughout the day, or keep a food diary. Is your diet full of animal fats, or do you simply not eat enough throughout the day. Be honest with yourself. There are three metabolic types: slow, balanced, or fast. It is possible to change your current metabolic type with exercise and nutrition. Your current metabolism stems from your life style choices, it is nothing hereditary.
Slow Metabolic Type
Those with a slow metabolic type are often obese; suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME), osteoporosis from lack of exercise, and Type 2 diabetes. Every person is born with a fast metabolic rate, but drugs, unhealthy diets, and lack of exercise gradually slow down the metabolism, enough to cause rapid weight gain and internal problems.
Individuals who suffer from a slow metabolism need to eat more alkaline foods like those found in fresh fruit and vegetables and refrain from consuming foods too high in acid like animal fats. It is essential to maintain the perfect PH balance in the body so that the body can work sufficiently, and boost the immune system to prevent toxic diseases.
With a slow metabolic rate, the body is not working sufficiently to burn the energy from food.
Balanced Metabolic Types
Individuals who have a balanced metabolism will often stay at a healthy weight throughout their lifetime. They consume health foods but also ‘treat’ themselves to the unhealthy foods – in moderation.
Fast Metabolic Types
Lean body types and those individuals who can consume fast food and stay at the same weight often have a high metabolism. It could be nervous tension in the body that causes them to burn up foods rapidly, or it could be an overactive thyroid gland – hyperthyroidism. Eating constantly also takes advantage of dietary thermogenesis – the calories burnt during digestion.
Find Out Your Metabolic Type
Answer the following questions correctly to confirm your current metabolic type. Alternatively, visit your physician for a blood test.
Note how often you eat throughout the day.
a) Two to three meals per day.
b) Three meals per day with one light snack.
c) Three meals, with constant snacks throughout the day.
Note your lunchtime appetite.
a) Light appetite.
b) Normal appetite.
c) Ravenous appetite.
Note what you consume at breakfast.
a) Nothing.
b) Cereal, toast, or fruit.
c) Bacon, eggs etc.
Note the foods consumed at a buffet?
a) Chicken, fish, vegetables, deserts.
b) Both foods from a) and b) food groups.
c) Heavy foods full of fat.
Do you have a good attitude with food?
a) Occasionally, I do not eat.
b) Enjoy food and never miss a meal.
c) Food rules my life.
What are the reasons to cause your weight gain?
a) Wrong food choices.
b) No particular foods cause my weight gain.
c) Bread, sweets, or fruit.
If you chose more As than Bs or Cs, your metabolism is slow.
If you chose more Bs than As or have an equal number of each you have a balanced metabolism.
If you chose more Cs than As or Bs, you have a fast metabolism.
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