7 Tips for Burning Calories

These are all small habits that make a big difference and increase your metabolism over time. You'll make weight loss faster and easier by increasing your metabolic rate and burning more calories.


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These are just a few habits you can adopt to start kickstarting your metabolism now. You may have heard of people who lost dozens of pounds simply by switching to diet soda or walking a few minutes each day. These are all small habits that make a big difference and increase your metabolism over time. You'll make weight loss faster and easier by increasing your metabolic rate and burning more calories.

1) Move more

Sedentary people burn about a third fewer calories per day. Simply taking every opportunity to move can make a huge difference in the amount of calories you burn in a day. Small movements add up over time to produce a lot of calories. The trick is to keep moving throughout the day. Write the word "move" on post-it notes and place them where you'll notice them when you're sitting down. Then, take every opportunity to move. Here are some ideas for burning extra calories:

Tap your feet
Swing your legs
Stand up and stretch
Move your head from side to side
Change position
Wiggle and fidget
Pacing up and down
Use the toilet upstairs
Park in the farthest corner of the parking lot.
Stand up when you're on the phone and take side steps.
Tighten and release your muscles

2) Eat little and often

Eating small meals every 2 to 4 hours is proven to help your metabolism burn faster than larger, less frequent meals. When you eat small amounts often, your body is constantly working to digest and absorb food, which requires energy.

3) Eat fat

If you want to feel good and not lose fat, you need to put some on first. Fats not only taste good, our bodies need them to function efficiently. By consuming several servings of "healthy" fats each day, you will increase your calorie-burning potential. Try incorporating fats like flaxseed oil, hemp oil, olive oil, avocados, salmon, albacore tuna, nuts and seeds into your daily diet.

4) Drink cold water

It is proven that your body expends more calories trying to bring cold water up to your body temperature than hot drinks. And overall, being well hydrated will help your body's metabolic processes burn faster.

5) Exercise with weights

Weight training boosts your metabolism in several ways. By lifting weights, you build muscle tissue. But muscle tissue is metabolically active, meaning it needs calories even at rest and helps increase fat-burning enzymes in your body.


6) Spices

Eating hot spices can speed up your metabolism. Just half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day can help boost metabolism and control blood sugar levels. Can't stand the thought of putting cinnamon in your morning coffee? Add cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper or wasabi.

7) Eat more protein

Protein requires more complex chemical breakdown by your body in order to be digested and used as fuel. For example, processing 100 calories of protein may require up to 30 calories. Protein also takes longer to digest and helps stabilize blood sugar levels for longer periods of time, which can help you avoid overeating later in the day. Eat a serving of protein with every meal and snack and you'll increase the total number of calories you burn each day.