If you want to lose weight, sifting through the thousands of diet books on the market today is quite a task. I've seen diet books come and go, some offering healthy and long-term solutions to weight loss while most are just "fad diets" that leave dieters unhealthy, less energetic, fatter than before they started their "diet", frustrated, and desperate — only to seek out another quick-fix diet again, resulting in chronic dieting with no real results.
So when you find a diet book that is authentic (one that works and is based on sound nutrition), its significance can't be ignored. Fire Up Your Metabolism: 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever, is such a diet book.
Lyssie Lakatos and Tammy Lakatos Shames, registered dieticians, nutritionists, personal trainers, and identical twins (we will get to that later) are the authors. Their main focus in this diet book is one of the most important aspects of losing weight — metabolism (BMR). BMR stands for Basal Metabolic Rate. BMR is basically the amount of energy your body needs to maintain normal body function. This includes the function of vital organs like the heart, lungs, brain and nervous system, liver, kidneys, sex organs, muscle, and skin, and accounts for about 60-70% of calories burned in a day. The amount of energy required by these processes must be met before any of those calories can be used for food digestion and physical activity. As the authors put it, "metabolism is the way your body uses calories from the food you eat. The speed at which it does so is called your metabolic rate." Why focus on metabolism for weight loss? Because the higher the metabolic rate the leaner you will get!
The authors provide and prove nine principles that will speed up your metabolism: 1) never skip meals, 2) eat at the right times, 3) choose a diet rich in the best carbs, 4) appropriately time intake of lean proteins, 5) drink appropriate amounts of certain beverages at specific times, 6) eat a diet low in bad fat, 7) get enough sleep every night, 8) find surprising ways to stay active, 9) incorporate muscle strengthening in your exercise routine.
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