Dent Your Appetite and Boost Your Metabolism with These Health Tips

First and foremost, losing weight depends on how fast your body’s metabolism is. Metabolism is the process where your body burns calories. The faster your metabolism is, the faster you can lose your extra weight. But faster metabolism also means getting hungry easily. So it is also important to create a diet or an eating habit that can help increase your metabolism yet shrink your appetite at the same time. For starters, here are five surprisingly easy ways that will help increase your metabolism and lessen your appetite.

Eat Your Breakfast

Your mother was right all along that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast not only gives you the energy to start your day, but eating a healthy breakfast (one without doughnuts) produces linked health benefits that include weight control and improvement in one’s performance in work or in studies. Studies show that both adults and children breakfast eaters tend to weigh less than those who skip their breakfast. Why? There are two leading theories on this. One theory says that regularly eating a healthy breakfast can lessen hunger throughout the day. Also, eating breakfast can help people make better food choices for their other meals for the whole day. You may think that if you skip breakfast, you could save some calories, but this has been proven to be a wrong strategy. Breakfast-skippers tend to get hungrier as the day goes on. As a result, breakfast-skippers eat more at lunch and at their other meals. The other theory links breakfast and weight control. The theory states or believes that eating breakfast is part of a healthy lifestyle, which includes making wise and healthy food choices and balancing calories with exercise. The theory points at the study of the National Weight Control Registry where 80 percent of the people who lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for a year where regular breakfast eaters and follower of calorie-controlled, low-fat diet.

Grab a Protein-Loaded Breakfast

Eat breakfast loaded with protein. Why protein? Simple, protein is very important for your body. Protein-loaded breakfast can help you feel full throughout the day, thus staving off your cravings for snacks between meals or late at night. According to Reader’s Digest online, foods with high amount of protein help reduce your appetite and also encourage your body to use energy to convert protein to carbohydrates. Here are examples.

Protein shakes or smoothies. Blend a cup of strawberries, slices of banana, a scoop of protein powder, some ice, and a cup of milk. You can also add slices of pineapples, orange juice, blackberries, blueberries, and yogurt. Add flaxseed for omega 3 and fiber. Be creative and adjust your ingredients to sate your taste.

Poached egg and smoke salmon open sandwich.

Eggs. Scramble some eggs or make an omelet with your favorite vegetables. Aside from protein, eggs are also great source of choline, which is very important for a well-functioning nervous system.

Chia seed porridge with berries, nuts, and seeds

Nuts and Seeds. They are loaded with protein and also rich in fiber and antioxidants. Just make sure that you are not allergic to nuts.

Avoid Food and Beverages with High-Fructose Corn Syrup

If you want to stay healthy, lose weight easily, and get rid of chronic disease, then you should eliminate high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). With enormous load of pure fructose and sugar, HFCS also contains many more harmful chemicals such as chloralkai (high mercury content). Independent medical and nutrition experts are not great fans of HFCS. Their studies show that consumption of beverages and foods with HFCS has a relation to the epidemic obesity, which means HFCS is one of the main causes of obesity. New research also found out that fructose produces lesser hormones that tell your brain that you are already full. So purge your kitchen with products that contain HFCS. You’ll increase your metabolism healthier .

Feast on Beans

Misal (Mixed Sprouted Beans) With Yogurt.

Experts recommend that each person should at least consume up to three cups of legumes per week. Yes, beans may make you gassy (which has been proven false, by the way, by a study by Nutrition Journal), but it doesn’t mean that they are unhealthy. Beans are loaded with proteins, fiber, and antioxidants. Fibers help make you feel full, thus beans can help curb your appetite. Beans also help in regulating sugar in your body. They also have “resistant starch,” which causes your body to work harder to get calories, thus helping to increase your metabolism.Therefore, beans are not only good for your waistline but also beneficial to your overall health.

Sprinkle a Little Bit of Spice in Your Life

Spices add bite to any food. They can make your ordinary meal exciting and flavorful—and they’re quite healthy. Spices contain high levels of antibacterial and antiviral properties. They are also high in B-vitamins, and most spices contain higher amount of disease-fighting antioxidants than some fruits and vegetables. Adding spices to your diet has immeasurable benefits. So spice up your meals and be healthy. Here are some spices that help in losing weight and are easily available.

Ginger. This spice has the unique ability to accelerate gastric emptying. This means that gingers will help boost your digestion.

Stir-fry steak with scallion and black pepper sauce

Black pepper. Black peppers contain piperine, which is a compound to have the ability to disrupt formation of new fat cells resulting to decrease in body fat and cholesterol levels.

Devilled chicken and mangoes. Be generous with the cayenne pepper

Cayenne pepper. This contains capsaicin, which is proven to be effective in reducing belly fat and suppressing appetites. It’s not too late to change your eating habit. Follow these tips and start living a healthier lifestyle.