Metabolism is the key

  Rev up your metabolism to get the weight loss and fitness results you are looking for.

  So what exactly is metabolism? Metabolism is the whole of all the chemical energy processing going on in your body right now as you read this. The processes never stop (well, they do, but when they stop, so do you—while you are alive, the processes are always churning away). Metabolism is the body digesting the food you consume, breaking it down and directing which energy resources go where. That is the secret to metabolism: manipulating it to burn fat rather than muscle.

  Your body is intelligent. It knows how to survive and how to increase its odds of survival. Your body is constantly analyzing what you are doing. This is where the concept of avoiding “starvation mode” comes in.

 The theory is that by continuously providing your system with fuel, the body does not sense an upcoming famine and will not feel the need to store energy to protect itself against the impending food shortage. This why you need to eat every few hours; you need to keep that metabolic fire burning. When the body senses inconsistencies in being fueled, it assumes that nourishment is hard to come by and that it should save everything it can, “just in case.” 

  Your metabolic processes have no idea you live in the United States of America, the land of super-sized meals and, for many, a bountiful supply of food. Your body preserves this energy as fat and it will keep this fat until it is absolutely confident that malnourishment is not a concern.

  You must prove to your body systems that you do not need emergency fat stores and that it is quite all right to keep these energy stores at a minimum; this is how you will get lean and healthy. The journey to this promised land of lean and healthy has other benefits as well; typically you will eat better foods, exercise more and, in general, respect your body more. This is what it’s all about.

  You get healthy from the inside out, starting with what you put in your body, when you do it and, finally, what you do to use this energy. The great thing about this cycle is that the further you take it, the better it works and the easier it is to do. Lean muscle burns more fat, so by working out and adding lean muscle you are burning more fat, even while you are sleeping! Muscle is the greatest fat burner, and a high-revving metabolism feeds this growing muscle tissue the energy it needs. The result is a vicious firestorm that takes direct aim at the very same fat stores you are combating.
Let the beast loose!
Stoke the fire that is your metabolism and you WILL see results.